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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Weaver
From the text ... 'Fire education specialists are joining with college graduate students and education majors to present a 3-day fire ecology and management program that involves both field and classroom exercises to fourth-through eighth-grade students.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Owens
From the text ... 'Project Learning Tree coordinators provide information and activities to make teachers feel comfortable teaching about wildland fire issues. Fire education workshops, lasting from 9 hours to a full week, cover topics such as the role of fire in ecosystems,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryon, Hamin
Salvage logging, the removal for profit of standing trees that have been damaged by extensive wildfires, has been quite controversial and subject to lawsuits that can delay the logging past the time in which the lumber is still useful. It has not been clear, however, whether the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCaffrey, Rhodes
In the United States, the increasing costs and negative impacts of wildfires are causing fire managers and policymakers to reexamine traditional approaches to fire management including whether mass evacuation of populations threatened by wildfire is always the most appropriate…
Year: 2009
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
Tragedies, such as the recent shootings on the Virginia Tech campus, affect all of us in different ways. Some people might react to the stress immediately, while others may not experience stress until later. This podcast discusses these issues.
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
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
Bruins, Munns, Botti, Brink, Cleland, Kapustka, Lee, Luzadis, McCarthy, Rana, Rideout, Rollins, Woodbury, Zupko
Ecological risk assessments typically are organized using the processes of planning (a discussion among managers, stakeholders, and analysts to clarify ecosystem management goals and assessment scope) and problem formulation (evaluation of existing information to generate…
Year: 2009
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
Crowley, Malik, Amacher, Haight
This paper models landowner behavior on timberland subject to damage by fire. We examine how management decisions by adjacent landowners yield outcomes that diverge from the social optimum, and consider how this divergence depends on landowner preferences and information. We…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Champ, Williams, Knotek
A lack of research on the conceptual intersection of leisure, place and wildland fire and its role in identity prompted this exploratory study. The purpose of this research was to gather evidence regarding how people negotiate identities under the threat of wildland fire.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paveglio, Carroll, Absher, Norton
This study uses social constructionism as a basis for understanding the effectiveness of communication about wildfire risk between agency officials and wildland-urban interface (WUI) residents. Risk communication literature demonstrates a welldocumented difference in the way…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act calls for local communities in the wildland-urban interface to collaborate on developing Community Wildfire Protection Plans to reduce their wildfire hazard. To craft a successful CWPP, a community must collaborate effectively. A Joint…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ray, Trainor, Huntington, Huntington, Natcher, Rupp
Recent global environmental and social changes have created a set of "wicked problems" for which the nature of the problem is poorly defined, the future conditions uncertain, and there is no optimal solution. Athabascan communities in Interior Alaska have confronted this…
Year: 2009
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
Carroll, Bright
Integrative complexity is a measure of how complexly people think about an issue. A newly developed integrative complexity scale was applied in a study of perceptions of wildfire management. We explored the relationship between value-laden basic beliefs and attitudes, and…
Year: 2009
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
McCaffrey, Rhodes
In the United States, the increasing costs and negative impacts of wildfires are causing fire managers and policymakers to reexamine traditional approaches to fire management including whether mass evacuation of populations threatened by wildfire is always the most appropriate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winter, McCaffrey, Vogt
Recently enacted federal and state policies provide incentives, including financial assistance, for local jurisdictions to manage risks associated with wildland fire. This has led to an array of local-level policies designed to encourage homeowners to create fire-safe landscapes…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
An important component of the wildland fire problem in the United States is the growing number of people living in high fire hazard areas. How people in these areas contribute to fire risk-or potentially decrease it-will be shaped by their attitudes and beliefs toward different…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hammer, Stewart, Radeloff
In this article, we provide an overview of the demographic trends that have impacted and will continue to impact the 'wicked' wildfire management problem in the United States, with particular attention to the emergence of the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Although population…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES