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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bouchard, Pothier
In boreal forests of eastern Canada, the end of the little ice age (ca. 1850) coincided with a lengthening of mean fire return intervals, which has been hypothesized to increase the abundance of late-successional forests dominated by balsam fir. This increase could have…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barn, Larson, Noullett, Kennedy, Copes, Brauer
Communities impacted by fine-particle air pollution (particles with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 mm; PM2.5) from forest fires and residential wood burning require effective, evidence-based exposure-reduction strategies. Public health recommendations during smoke…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wirth, Lichstein, Dushoff, Chen, Chapin
Local distributions of black spruce (Picea mariana) and white spruce (Picea glauca) are largely determined by edaphic and topographic factors in the interior of Alaska, with black spruce dominant on moist permafrost sites and white spruce dominant on drier upland sites. Given…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Snow
Since before recorded history mankind has used timber for construction and, in 'tree rich' rural societies, timber has remained a primary construction material ever since. This reflects the ease with which it can be sourced, its excellent mechanical properties, light weight and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sankey, Moffet, Weber
Much interest lies in long-term recovery rates of sagebrush communities after fire in the western United States, as sagebrush communities comprise millions of hectares of rangelands and are an important wildlife habitat. Little is known about postfire changes in sagebrush canopy…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Hamin
After wildfire, land managers are often called on to undertake complex restoration activities while also managing relations with wildfire-devastated communities. This research investigates the community-US Forest Service agency relations in the postwildfire period in three…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Northcott, Andersen, Roemer, Fredrickson, DeMers, Truett, Ford
Factors governing the rate and direction of prairie dog (Cynomys spp.) colony expansion remain poorly understood. However, increased knowledge and ability to control these factors may lead to more effective reintroductions of prairie dogs and restoration of grassland habitats.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kurkowski, Mann, Rupp, Verbyla
Postfire succession in the Alaskan boreal forest follows several different pathways, the most common being self-replacement and species-dominance relay. In self-replacement, canopy-dominant tree species replace themselves as the postfire dominants. It implies a relatively…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jimenez, Hussaini, Goodrick
The purpose of the present work is to quantify parametric uncertainty in the Rothermel wildland fire spread model (implemented in software such as BehavePlus3 and FARSITE), which is undoubtedly among the most widely used fire spread models in the United States. This model…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Calkin, Jones, Hyde
After the containment of large wildland fires, major onsite and downstream effects including lost soil productivity, watershed response, increased vulnerability to invasive weeds, and downstream sedimentation can cause threats to human life and property. Burned Area Emergency…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Hodges, Vaughan, Shepherd
From the text ... 'Despite the recognized importance of pollination services, there is a growing body of evidence that suggests pollinators are at risk. In the United States, the National Research Council (2006) reported that both managed honey bee colonies and wild pollinators…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wells
From the text ... 'Wildfire has always been a periodic visitor to western forests, part of the cycle of natural dynamics that make these forests what they are. Until recently, the standard explanation for increased wildfires in recent decades has been an unnatural buildup of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Rideout-Hanzak, Johnson
We used a national household survey to examine knowledge, attitudes, and preferences pertaining to wildland fire. First, we present nationwide results and trends. Then, we examine opinions across region and race. Despite some regional variation, respondents are fairly consistent…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weick, Sutcliffe
From the text ... 'In this article for Fire Management Today, we comment briefly on six themes that stand out in those discussions. Three themes, normalizing, complexity, and failure reaffirm properties originally associated with High Reliability Organizations (HROs). The other…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
From the text ... 'The most important facet of any talk on High Reliability Organizing is immediately establishing the rationale for why busy wildland fire managers, who are already overloaded with firefighting safety issues and decisionmaking responsibilities, should take the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Snider
From the text ... 'This escape, which would become known as the Cerro Grande Fire, and its subsequent run through the town of Los Alamos and the Los Alamos National Laboratory precipitated some profound changes in the way that we manage fire on the American landscape.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saveland
From the text ... 'The wildland fire management community is not waiting for the heads of agencies to furnish places free from job safety and health hazards. Rather, this community is beginning to explore state-of-the-art safe and effective operations: organizing for high…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keller
From the text ... 'How can we organize for high performance in a setting where the potential for error and disaster can be overwhelming? In doing so, how can we best apply High Reliability Organizing concepts into the prescribed fire and fire use arenas?These questions and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keller
From the text ... 'There was no question that High Reliability Organizing deserves to be included in the wildland fire management toolbox. ...The most powerful action we can take is implementing High Reliability Organizing and, especially, to model it.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fay
From the text ... 'What works for me is to first provide different examples of effective HRO principles that people might already be doing (without the HRO labels) and then connect these practices into a mindful organizing process with the principles appropriately identified.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeGrosky
From the text ... 'For more than 20 years, a small but diverse group of organizational experts have researched the nature of what we have come to call a High Reliability Organization (HRO). The HRO theory builds on and extends organizational research conducted since the late…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Sutcliffe, Barton, Dether
From the text ... 'Simplistically, a High Reliability Organization (HRO) is one that consistently produces the results in a dynamic, often unpredictable environment in which the consequences of errors are catastrophic. Accordingly, the error rate of an HRO is substantially lower…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Verbyla, Kasischke, Hoy
The maximum solar elevation is typically less than 50 degrees in the Alaskan boreal region and solar elevation varies substantially during the growing season. Because of the relatively low solar elevation at boreal latitudes, the effect of topography on spectral reflectance can…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Šrůtek, Doležal, Findlay, Andress
Post-fire seedling establishment in relation to microsite conditions and relationships of seedlings (saplings) to older tree individuals was studied in two treatments (i.e., burned and unburned sites) in an area known as the pitch pine (Pinus rigida) ridge on Hill Island, St.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sorensen, McLoughlin, Hervieux, Dzus, Nolan, Wynes, Boutin
Direct and indirect effects of industrial development have contributed, in part, to the threatened status of boreal ecotype caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in Alberta and Canada. Our goal was to develop a model that would allow managers to identify landscape-scale targets…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS