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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
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
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
Hernandez
From the text ... 'It's difficult to imagine that Smokey Bear celebrated his 70th Anniversary in August 2014. Most of us were introduced to Smokey Bear and fire prevention through childhood school programs and public service announcements on television and radio. As firefighters…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Today, as we are faced with a multitude of problems that need resolution, both at a national scale and within our profession, each of us needs to become involved -- become active citizens of fire and leaders of our 'revolution of success.' The success will…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Waldron, Ebbeck
A quantitative approach was adopted to explore facets of mindfulness and self-compassion in relation to their ability to predict crewmembers' perceptions of their supervisors' leadership capabilities. The sample comprised 43 wildland fire crews consisting of their primary…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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
Christianson
This article reviews social science research on Indigenous wildfire management in Australia, Canada and the United States after the year 2000 and explores future research needs in the field. In these three countries, social science research exploring contemporary Indigenous…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Carroll, Kumagai, Daniels, Bliss, Edwards
Fire officials are dismayed when victims of wildfire blame fire fighters and others responsible for fire management for damage resulting from uncontrolled fires. This is in spite of the fact that wildfire damage is a consequence of dynamic interactions among natural factors (…
Year: 2004
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
Joy
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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
A report highlighting the progress and accomplishments of Forest Service Research and Development under the National Fire Plan in fiscal year 2003. It describes research findings, tool developments, technology transfer, and research highlights in four key areas: firefighting,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Using fire and fuels management as an example, this two pronged webinar will cover current best practices for science delivery and report the results of a study designed to improve future science delivery by understanding potential science users. A survey of 500 fire managers…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Drummond, Peterson
Join Firewise as we hear from Firewise leaders about how to host successful Firewise Community Days. You’ll learn why Firewise requires and collects this information, how to tell your community’s story, and the value in sharing this achievement. Courtney Peterson, Wildfire…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smith
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
What do scientists need to know about getting their science used? Show how it meets your audience’s needs. Make it appealing to your audience. Make it easy to find. Three examples from my career demonstrate these…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Diaz
As fire management agencies seek to implement more flexible fire management strategies, local understanding and support for these strategies become increasingly important. One issue associated with implementing more flexible fire management strategies is educating local…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kline, Ager, Fischer
The need for improved methods for managing wildfire risk is becoming apparent as uncharacteristically large wildfires in the western US and elsewhere exceed government capacities for their control and suppression. We propose a coupled biophysical-social framework to managing…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Abt, Butry, Prestemon, Scranton
Humans cause more than 55% of wildfires on lands managed by the USDA Forest Service and US Department of the Interior, contributing to both suppression expenditures and damages. One means to reduce the expenditures and damages associated with these wildfires is through fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
[from the text] The Quadrennial Fire Review (QFR) is a strategic assessment process conducted every four years to evaluate current wildland fire management community strategies and capabilities against best estimates of the future environment. This report is the third iteration…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fires of Change presents a fascinating cross-section of contemporary art and the history of fire ecology in the western United States. Eleven artists, mostly from the southwestern United States, were tasked with exploring the intersections of wildfire, forest ecology, climate…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES