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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wuerthner
From the Introduction (p.xv) ... 'White this book is about fire policy and fire ecology, it is also a discussion of a much larger philosophical debate over the ultimate role and influence humans should have on natural landscapes.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prestemon, Wear, Stewart, Holmes
Administrative planning rules and legal challenges can have significant economic impacts on timber salvage programs on public lands. This paper examines the costs of the delay in salvage caused by planning rules and the costs associated with the volume reductions forced by legal…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nazzaro, Bixler, Chu, Dent, Frisch, Guinane, Jackson, Johnson, Joy, Lin, Moscovitch, Sinkfield
From What GAO Recommends ... 'GAO recommends that the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, working with relevant state entities, provide more specific guidance on when to use particular cost-sharing methods and clarify the financial responsibilities for fires that burn…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Cyr, Drever, Flannigan, Gauthier, Kneeshaw, Lauzon, Leduc, Le Goff, Lesieur, Logan
The past decade has seen an increasing interest in forest management based on historical or natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale is that management that favours landscape compositions and stand structures similar to those found historically should also maintain…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sexton
From the text ... 'Line officer support and active involvement was identified as the most important common denominator of the high-performance prescribed fire programs.... This personnel interchange between units not only helps accomplish agency targets, but it enhances the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sexton
From the text ... 'All Forest Service regions now have strategies designed to reduce wildfire hazard primarily through the application of prescribed fire.... Many forests have developed strategies that utilize a sequence of treatments to reduce risk and to better position their…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zimmerman, Lasko
From the text ... 'Early prescribed natural fire efforts were tacitly supported, limited in extent, and carried out under close scrutiny.... Wildland fire use has moved beyond the confines of remote, inaccessible areas. It is expanding across an increasing variety of land use…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stewart
From the text ... 'These 'problem fires' are the symptoms of a larger forest health issue in which ecological realities conflict with both social expectations and economic limitations.... Only through dedication and alignment of the full force and capabilities of integrated,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Your identity is based on your contribution -- not your rank. 'When you get this much intelligence and passion in a room -- good things happen.' -- Faye Fentiman, management consultant-facilitator.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baldwin
From the text ... 'The public needs to learn that fire is a dynamic factor of the forest environment, not necessarily good or bad but natural. ...the very efficiency of the fire brigades guarantees fuel accumulations that will one day produce a holocaust.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nazzaro
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hiratsuka, Toma, Diana, Hadriyanto, Morikawa
After the 1998 forest fire in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, biomass recovery of naturally regenerated vegetation was estimated in order to evaluate the initial secondary succession patterns of the burned land. We established research plots in naturally regenerated vegetation that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jeffery
From the text ... 'Wildfires are part of a natural environmental cycle and will continue to be a part of our planet's processes along with other weather-related disaster events. But the unique ability of humans to suppress and contain the flames, as well as mitigate the damage,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topik
From the text ... 'With just over 3 months remaining, it looks like 2015 could be a record-breaking year for wildfires in the United States. So far this year, more than 8.5 million acres have burned and severe fires often happen in October. For the first time, the U.S. Forest…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
North, Stephens, Collins, Agee, Aplet, Franklin, Fulé
From the text ... 'Management reform in the United States has failed, not because of policy, but owing to lack of coordinated pressure sufficient to overcome entrenched agency disincentive to working with fire. Responding to established research, official agency policy now…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duff, Tolhurst
Wildfires are an inherent part of the landscape in many parts of the world; however, they often impose substantial economic burdens on human populations where they occur, both in terms of impacts and of management costs. As wildfires burn towards human assets, a universal…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Christman, Rollins
Wildfire-potential information products are designed to support decisions for prefire staging of movable wildfire suppression resources across geographic locations. We quantify the economic value of these information products by defining their value as the difference between two…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paveglio, Brenkert-Smith, Hall, Smith
There is no uniform means for assessing social impact from wildland fires beyond statistics such as home loss, suppression costs and the number of residents evacuated. In this paper we argue for and provide a more comprehensive set of considerations for gauging social impact…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lueck, Yoder
This article examines the complex structure of wildland firefighting using the economic theories of contracts, property rights, and organization. We examine historical and cross-sectional case studies and consider the implications for contemporary wildfire management. Wildfires…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee, Schlemme, Murray, Unsworth
Little research has focused on the economic impact associated with climate-change induced wildland fire on natural ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. We examine changes in wildland fire patterns based on the U.S. Forest Service's MC1 dynamic global vegetation…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Farmer, Meretsky, Knapp, Chancellor, Fischer
In the United States, the amount of land protected by conservation easements dramatically increased between 2000 and 2010. As this mechanism for private land conservation continues to draw the attention of scientists, professionals, and policy makers, more information is needed…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The wildland/urban inferface (WUI) is a geographic location where structures and flammable vegetation merge in a wildfire-prone environment.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lowell, Parrent, Deering, Bihn, Becker
The Community Biomass Handbook. Volume 2: Alaska, Where Woody Biomass Can Work, is a companion volume to the Community Biomass Handbook. Volume 1: Thermal Wood Energy, published in April 2014 (Becker et al. 2014). Why an Alaska volume? The original handbook contains information…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rappold
A recent study of simulated forecast-based interventions as a tool to reduce the health and economic burden during smoke episodes. The study illustrated a large health burden associated with these events and the potential benefit an adaptation of current forecasting technologies…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The 2006 Alaska fire season started out quietly, with the first human-caused fire of the season on April 11th in the Fairbanks area. A total of 250 human-caused fires resulted in 144,811.8 acres burned. On May 15, the Little Delta fire became the first lightning fire of the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES