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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Schullery
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barbee, Schullery
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCleese
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reid
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duever
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ribe
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huntington, Trainor, Natcher, Huntington, DeWilde, Chapin
Community workshops are widely used tools for collaborative research on social-ecological resilience in indigenous communities. Although results have been reported in many publications, few have reflected explicitly on the workshop itself, and specifically on understanding what…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sexton
From the text ... 'A coordinated, interagency effort is required to ensure that fire use programs are implemented in a professional and competent manner.... Fire management is as much a philosophy and attitude toward the land as it is an action program.'
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
Christensen, Agee, Brussard, Hughes, Knight, Minshall, Peek, Pyne, Swanson, Wells, Thomas, Williams, Wright
From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wolf
This article examines the role of the concept of financially profitable forestry in early agency thinking. It discusses the use of profit as a ground for creating the Forest service to manage the nation's forest reserves, and the continual efforts of the Service, after its…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McEneaney
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morrison
An illustrated account of the origin of the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention (Smokey Bear) Campaign, the people who have worked with it, introduction of the live Smokey Bear, the law and regulations governing the program, and the reasons for Smokey's continued popularity for…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Andrews
From the introduction: The purpose of the Symposium on Wildland Fire 2000 was to examine the 'possible, preferred, and probable status of wildland fire management and research in the year 2000 and beyond' (David and Martin 1987). A half-day 'futuring' session was an integral…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Research and Development (R&D) arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service works at the forefront of science to improve the health and use of our Nation's forests and grasslands. Research has been part of the Forest Service mission since the agency's…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klade
Includes highlights of the history of organizations that preceded formation of the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station in 1954. Provides detailed accounts of Intermountain Station research and administrative accomplishments, some of the people who led activities,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
Quantitative scales of fire magnitude and intensity are needed to assess and publicly communicate the unbiased potential of wildland fire to cause effects-harm, damage, and ecological change. Such scales already exist for earthquakes (Richter Scale and Mercalli Scale),…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winter, Bigler-Cole
A user needs assessment surrounding National Predictive Services was conducted involving current and prospective customers. Needs assessments (Rossi, Freeman and Lipsey 1999) are a useful form of program evaluation. National Predictive Services offers products and services…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Akerelrea, Smith, O'Keefe
Natural-resource managers have used a variety of computer-mediated presentation methods to communicate management practices to diverse publics. We explored the effects of visualizing and animating predictions from mathematical models in computerized presentations explaining…
Year: 2006
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: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A roll call analysis of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act and constituent interests in fire policy
This study examined national wildland fire policy by focusing on the political process. The evolution of federal wildland fire policies was reviewed first. Wildland fire suppression in the long term has resulted in a high accumulation of fuels on federal forestlands. The…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brenkert-Smith
As the wildland-urban interface (WUI) grows in size and density and increasing levels of funding are being directed toward education and outreach programs targeting residents in these communities, it is becoming increasingly important to investigate residents’ responses to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES