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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Theobald, Romme
For at least two decades, expansion of low-density residential development at the wildland-urban interface has been widely recognized as a primary factor influencing the management of US national forests. We estimate the location, extent, and trends in expansion of the wildland-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jakes
To improve access, interpretability, and use of the full body of research, a pilot project was initiated by the USDA Forest Service to synthesize relevant scientific information and develop publications and decision support tools that managers can use to inform fuels treatment…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Englin, Boxall, Hauer
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hessburg, Smith, Salter, Ottmar, Alvarado
We characterized recent historical and current vegetation composition and structure of a representative sample of subwatersheds on all ownerships within the interior Columbia River basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins. For each selected subwatershed, we constructed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roseberry
From the text (p.244) ... 'In closing, I would just like to remind you that as necessary and vital as research is, it is not an absolute cure-all for the current problems faced by quail and other forms of wildlife. The widespread decline in bobwhite abundance over the past 3 or…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Capel
Federal Farm programs have had wide range of impacts on wildlife over the years. Some programs have been extremely harmful to wildlife while others have, intentionally or accidentally, been beneficial to wildlife. Frequently, the same program that is beneficial to wildlife in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Poiani, Richter, Anderson, Richter
From the text...'Approaches to conservation and natural resource management are maturing rapidly in response to changing perceptions of biodiversity and ecological systems. In past decades,biodiversity was viewed largely in terms of species richness, and the ecosystems…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cole
Today's prescribed fire program manager is confronted with an increasingly complex dilemma. On the one hand, the science, knowledge, and commitment of managers regarding the role of prescribed fire across the landscape have grown appreciatively, only to be tempered by societal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Medler
Forest fires are not spatially uniform events. They result in a complicated mosaic of burned and unburned vegetation. To manage fuel loads and the associated fire hazard it is essential to improve our understanding of the spatial patterns of the potential effects of future fires…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hesseln, Rideout
The fire season of 2000 is one of the most severe on record, burning approximately seven million acres by the end of September—over 2.5 times the 10-year average of 2.6 million acres. Fires burning in the wildland-urban interface have resulted in millions of dollars of private…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
The social impact of wildfire is influenced by how journalists report major conflagrations such as this year*s Cerro Grande fire in New Mexico. Wildfire reporting has improved since the 1988 Yellowstone fires but is still influenced by urban stereotypes about rural issues. The…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mullen
The Cerro Grande has been called the biggest fire in New Mexico history. The Cerro Grande blaze raged across the hillsides above Los Alamos National Laboratory, then, driven by high winds, the fire raced through the Laboratory and the Los Alamos town site. The fire destroyed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Executive Summary: On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year*s severe fires, reduce the impacts of these wildland fires on rural…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Binkley, Sisk, Chambers, Springer, Block
Classic ecological concepts and forestry language regarding old growth are not well suited to frequent-fire landscapes. In frequent-fire, old-growth landscapes, there is a symbiotic relationship between the trees, the understory graminoids, and fire that results in a healthy…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murphy, Abrams, Daniel, Yazzie
Ecological and social factors shaped old-growth forests of the western United States before Euro-American settlement, and will, in large part, determine their future. In this article, we focus on the social factors that affected the forest's ecological structure and function,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forest Service Research and Development has a long-standing component of social fire science that since 2000 has expanded significantly. Much of this new work focuses on research that will increase understanding of the social and economic issues connected with wildland fire and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
FACA regulates Federal agency establishment or utilization of a group to obtain consensual advice or recommendations. FACA defines when such a group can be considered an advisory committee and the process necessary for its formation and proper functioning. 'Utilizing' a group is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The vision for Cooperative Conservation in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is to make shared stewardship of America's public lands the BLM's operating principle. It is the primary directive for land restoration, place-based conservation, and sustainable resource use in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bright, Carroll
There are a number of benefits from wildland fire such as forest reproduction, habitat improvement, and reduction of threats from insects and diseases. However, along with these benefits are threats to human life, property and air quality. The trade-off between wildfire benefits…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Absher, Vaske
Theoretically grounded explanations of wildland fire policy can be improved by empirically documenting the causal influences of support for (or opposition to) management alternatives. This chapter proposes a model based on the specificity principle (i.e. correspondence between…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larson, Wright, Spaulding, Rossetto, Rausch, Richards, Durnford
The wildland fire community has spent the past decade trying to understand and account for the role of human factors in wildland fire organizations. Social research that is relevant to managing fire organizations can be found in disciplines such as social psychology, management…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McDaniel
'The number one challenge we face in our fire management and fuels treatment program here in western Colorado is communication and public involvement,' says Tim Foley, fire management officer for the Bureau of Land Management in the western slope of Colorado. 'From working with…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes
To improve access, interpretability, and use of the full body of research, a pilot project was initiated by the USDA Forest Service to synthesize relevant scientific information and develop publications and decision support tools that managers can use to inform fuels treatment…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCool, Burchfield, Williams, Carroll, Cohn, Kumagai, Ubben
A series of syntheses were commissioned by the U.S. Forest Service to aid in fuels mitigation project planning. Focusing on research on the social impacts of wildland fire, this synthesis explores decisions and actions taken by communities before, during, and after a wildland…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES