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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Brown, Hall, Westerling
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neznek
From the text...'On December 3, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, legislation designed to expedite hazardous fuel reduction projects and improve forest health conditions in the nation's forests. Several provisions of this legislation alter…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Teich, Vaughn, Cortner
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jain, Graham
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) provided fire research scientists an outdoor laboratory to test a theoretical, physical-based fire model and to conduct a wide variety of concurrent experiments. The crown fire experiments, located 40 km northeast of Fort…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Gray, Steele, Needoba, Green, MacKenzie
In 2000 the Squamish Forest District began a pilot project to study the effects of prescribed fire on forest succession, fuel dynamics, regeneration, wildlife habitat, and timber supply within two landscape units encompassing 103,000 ha north of Pemberton, British Columbia.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hann
Fire regime and associated condition class mapping have provided key data for development of cohesive strategies for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems and for the National Fire Plan within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and U.S. Department of Interior…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bosworth
From the text ... 'A policy of allowing all fires to burn would be just as flawed as the old policy of putting them all out. ...Our policy is to use fire where we can and suppress fire where we must.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
A consensus history of fire in the United States has emerged over the past decade. It correctly identifies fire suppression's liabilities, while probably over‐enthusing about fire‐science capabilities. What it lacks, however, is a context of the subject's larger, braided…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chapin, DeWilde, Trainor, Calef, McGuire, Rupp, Lovecraft
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rohde
I recently completed a study providing insight into critical decisions by command officers on some of California's most notorious wildfires in the wildland/urban interface (WUI). My study focused on the first several hours of response to the fires, a period of time when…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Oja, Newbould, MacLean, See, Beebi, Peterson, Wahrenbrock, Degrenes, Wilfong, Rude, Greenberg, Fasteband, Boughton, Lehnhausen, Stockdale, Stubbs, Cooper, Sines, Heppner, Sink
This plan called the 'All Lands/All Hands Action Plan' puts forth a bold, collaborative interagency strategy of compelling on-the-ground actions that emphasizes treatments in community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) areas and wildland urban interface areas (WUI) that lie…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oja, Newbould, MacLean, See, Beebi, Peterson, Wahrenbrock, Degrenes, Wilfong, Rude, Greenberg, Fasteband, Boughton, Lehnhausen, Stockdale, Stubbs, Cooper, Sines, Heppner, Sink
This plan called the 'All Lands/All Hands Action Plan' puts forth a bold, collaborative interagency strategy of compelling on-the-ground actions that emphasizes treatments in community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) areas and wildland urban interface areas (WUI) that lie…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kumagai, Carroll, Cohn
The human community impacts of wildland fire is an understudied area. This article reviews the human disaster and hazards literature in an attempt to discover lessons applicable to understanding the social impacts of fire in the residential/wildland interface. It is argued that…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Winter, Vogt, McCaffrey
Surveys of homeowners in three different ecosystems with varying fuels management approaches reveal that homeowners' trust in natural resource agencies is significantly associated with perceived risks and benefits and with perceived agency competence. A weaker association…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dombeck, Williams, Wood
Efforts to suppress wildfires have become increasingly problematic in recent years as costs have risen, threats to firefighter safety have escalated, and detrimental impacts to ecosystems have multiplied. Wildfires that escape initial suppression often expand into large, high-…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert, Calkin
Description not entered.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jain
From introduction: The ineffective and inconsistent use of terminology among fire managers, scientists, resource managers and the public is a constant problem in resource management. In fire management and fire science, the terms fire severity, burn severity and fire intensity…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturm, Weaver
Description not entered.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Putnam, Butler
Fire shelters are critical safety items required for use by most wildland firefighters in the United States. Most testing of fire shelters, clothing and other personal protective equipment (PPE) has been limited to prescribed fires or laboratory based studies. This study reports…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jakes, Kruger, Monroe, Nelson, Sturtevant
By almost any measure, the past decade has been severe in terms of wildland fire in the United States. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) maintains a list of 'Historically Significant Wildfires' in the U.S. - fires that are significant in terms of acres burned, value of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mileti
Within the past 10 years, breakthrough research has identified factors that are most important for effectively communicating about wildland fire hazards. This fact sheet discusses seven 'Laws' of effective public communication that should be considered in any state-of-the-art…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES