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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Powell
Private lands are critical to conservation planning for wildlife, worldwide. Agriculture subsidies, tax incentives, and conservation easements have been successfully used as tools to convert cropland to native vegetation. However, uncertain economies threaten the sustainability…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Huntington, Goodstein, Euskirchen
Climate change incurs costs, but government adaptation budgets are limited. Beyond a certain point, individuals must bear the costs or adapt to new circumstances, creating political-economic tipping points that we explore in three examples. First, many Alaska Native villages are…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Welch, Williams
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Yoder, Gebert
This paper develops an econometric model that can provide predictions of fire suppression costs (per acre and in total) for a given large fire before final fire acreage is known. The model jointly estimates cost per acre and acreage equations via Maximum Likelihood, accounting…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Thomas, Butry
Each year, wildland fires threaten structures and occupants of the wildland urban interface (WUI). Currently, wildfire ignition estimates largely exclude ignitions originating within municipal jurisdictions, which contain the majority of the US population. The objective of this…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Document of related published papers to FSPro analysis in Alaska from the 2012 Fire Modeling Workshop
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

London
An essay appearing in On Collaboration, a collection edited by Marie Bak Mortensen and Judith Nesbitt. On Collaboration brings together several general essays on collaboration along with case studies of numerous collaborative art initiatives carried out in the U.K. under the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mercer, Prestemon
The economics of wildfire is complicated because wildfire behavior depends on the spatial and temporal scale at which management decisions made, and because of uncertainties surrounding the results of management actions. Like the wildfire processes they seek to manage,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

González-Cabán, Rodríguez-Trejo, Nolasco Morales, Rodríguez y Silva, Frausto Leyva, Gallegos Mora
This symposium brings together a broad community of wildland fire managers, practitioners, researchers, academics, policy makers, and students from around the world to provide the opportunity to share research and ideas on the economics, planning, and policies of wildland fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Malcolm
Evaluating the risks of wildfire relative to the valuable resources found in any managed landscape requires an interdisciplinary approach. Researchers at the Rocky Mountain Research Station and Western Wildland Threat Assessment Center developed such a process, using a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Gebert, Black
Policymakers and decision makers alike have suggested that the use of less aggressive suppression strategies for wildland fires might help stem the tide of rising emergency wildland fire expenditures. However, the interplay of wildland fire management decisions and expenditures…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Liang, Calkin, Gebert, Venn, Silverstein
The authors wish to alert readers of the following technical errors found in the original publication.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bahn, Wright, MontBlanc, Thode
Fire and fuels management have become increasingly challenging in the last three decades due to climate change, invasive species, urbanization and development, increased land use, and the effects of these factors on fire size and frequency (Westerling et al. 2007; D'Antonio and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jakes, McCaffrey
Wildland fires burn millions of acres annually, damaging human and animal communities, endangering the lives of firefighters, and costing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and suppression expenses. However, wildland fires are also important to maintaining and restoring…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jakes, Esposito, Burns, Cheng, Nelson, Sturtevant, Williams
A community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) is a means of bringing local solutions to wildland fire management. In developing and implementing CWPPs, communities assume a leadership role in reducing wildfi re risk on federal and nonfederal land. In this publication, we identify…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Snyder, Stockmann, Morris
The US Forest Service used contracted helicopter services as part of its wildfire suppression strategy. An optimization decision-modeling system was developed to assist in the contract selection process. Three contract award selection criteria were considered: cost per pound of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Ballard, Evans, Sturtevant, Jakes
Many environmental education programs in the United States educate youth about the prevention of wildfire and its role in ecosystems.We reviewed 50 wildfire education programs for youth (WEY) in the U.S. through an Internet search and interviews with program providers. We…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy) is a collaborative effort to identify, define, and address wildland fire management problems and opportunities for successful wildland fire management in the three regions of the United States: the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Moseley, Medley-Daniel, Davis
Forest Service policies and programs promote the integration of forest and watershed restoration with local economic development. For example, the Collaborative Landscape Restoration Program, stewardship contracting, and the Watershed Condition Framework all explicitly link…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Moseley, Davis
Across multiple presidential administrations, forest and watershed restoration has become an increasingly important focus of the USDA Forest Service. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, for example, has made restoring watershed and forest health the primary objective of the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Martin
The Economic Extension (ECON) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) computes economic measures during FVS simulations to aid evaluation of silvicultural alternatives. These measures include undiscounted and discounted costs and revenues, benefit-cost ratio, internal rate of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Swanson, Brodie, Goodrich
This project examined existing programs and potential options for collaborations among the humanities, art, science, land management, and public concerning wildfire and wildfire policy and education. These programs and partnerships include creative residencies; conferences,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Moseley, Gebert, Jakes, Leete, Nielsen-Pincus
Large wildfires disrupt the lives of workers, families, and employers. However, fire suppression and recovery efforts may provide economic opportunities. Unlike with other natural hazards, there has been little research about how wildfires affect local economies. The purpose of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hrobak
This video was produced by AFSC coordinator Jen Hrobak for presentation at the Association for Fire Ecology 5th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in Portland, Oregon, (Dec 3-7, 2012). It summarizes the Art of Fire project, including footage of field trips, the…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Stevenson
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium's "In a Time of Change: The Art of Fire" is a visual art project designed generate excitement, facilitate mutual understanding and promote meaningful dialogue on issues related to fire science and society. The interaction between artists, fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES