The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Donovan, Noordijk
From the text ... 'Wildfires consume budgets and put the heat on fire managers to justify and control suppression costs. ...We used data from the 2002 fire season to determine how WFSA-predicted outcomes compared to actual outcomes. ...Fire managers often underestimated the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hesseln
Prescribed burning has, in the past decade, become the focus of debate among policy makers, federal and private land managers, and the public. To manage fire effectively, the USDA Forest Service has formally recognized the need for economic analysis. It is stated in the Federal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Ruth
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Barclay, Hawkes, Taylor
Because mountain pine beetle attack mature pine stands, an understanding of forest age class dynamics is important to managing forests within the distribution of the beetle. The assumed theoretical negative exponential forest age distribution provides an estimate when ecosystem…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Green, Hedberg
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory was to provide watershed managers with a better…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch, Pengelly
Over the last decade fire managers in Banff National Park have embarked on a comprehensive fuels management program of which one aspect has been fuel reduction treatments near structures or facilities (e.g., homes, campground, hotels). These treatments included the reduction of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pollet, Omi
From the Management Implications (p.139-140)... 'Our findings indicate that fuel treatments do mitigate fire severity. Treatments provide a window of opportunity for effective fire suppression and protecting high-value areas. Although topography and weather may play a more…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weise, Kimberlin, Arbaugh, Chew, Jones, Merzenich, van Wagtendonk, Wiitala
Understanding the trade-off between short-term and long-term consequences of fire impacts on ecosystems is needed before a comprehensive fuels management program can be implemented nationally. We are comparing three vegetation models that may be used to predict the effects of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mora, Hernandez-Cardenas
An increasing severity in the occurrence of wildfires in Mexico has been recently associated with the activity of 'El Nino' Southern Oscillation (ENSO). A spatio-temporal analysis of fire potential indicated that indeed, catastrophic fires could occur due to unusual droughts and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sampson, Gollberg
The workshop began with the workshop facilitator, Neil Sampson, summarizing 17 invited papers presented on the opening day of the conference. These papers provided a state-of-the-science overview of pre-selected topics including Overview (3 papers), GIS and Remote Sensing…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
We present results from ongoing research into 20th Century fire regimes in two large Rocky Mountain wilderness areas. Fire patterns are represented as digital fire atlases based on archival forest service data. We find that spatial and temporal fire patterns are variable in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Green, Hedberg, Ohlson
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory, which integrates physical and ecological information,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harkins, Morgan, Neuenschwander, Chrisman, Zack, Jacobson, Grant, Sampson
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF), in partnership with the University of Idaho, the Fire Sciences Laboratory, and The Sampson Group, developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) based wildfire hazard-risk assessment. The assessment was completed for the North Zone…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le Goff, Leduc, Bergeron, Flannigan
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kloor
New data on how North American forests looked centuries ago are fueling a debate on what ecologists should aim for when restoring ailing ecosystems.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vance, Edminster, Covington, Blake
This volume is divided into three sections: (1) Ecological, Biological, and Physical Science; (2) Social and Cultural; and (3) Economics and Utilization. Effective ecological restoration requires a combination of science and management. The authors of the first section…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacGregor, Haynes
The emergence of large fires of long duration (also known as siege fires) with their inherently high costs has raised numerous questions about the opportunities for cost containment. Cost reviews from the 2003 fire season have revealed how additional knowledge created through…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyon, Smith
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huff, Smith
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyon, Brown, Huff, Smith
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stroppiana, Pinnock, Gregoire
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saharjo, Watanabe
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moote
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keller
From the text ... 'The use of wildland fire incident management teams for nonfire emergency management is rapidly spreading.'
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS