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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sachs
From the text ... 'The purpose of ESF4 [Emergency Support Function 4] is to provide Federal support for the detection and suppression of wildland, rural, and urban fires resulting from, or occurring coincidentally with, an incident requiring a coordinated Federal response for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carr
From the text ... 'More than half the initial projects proposed for the Forest Service's billion dollars of funding through the ARRA [American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009] were for wildland fire management.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rissman, Butsic
Achieving conservation goals in protected areas hinges on continual monitoring, enforcement, and legal defense. In an era of devolved governance, nonprofit land trusts have become increasingly important. Yet, their approaches to legal defense of conserved areas are relatively…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Milder, Clark
Conservation development projects combine real-estate development with conservation of land and other natural resources. Thousands of such projects have been conducted in the United States and other countries through the involvement of private developers, landowners, land trusts…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Farmer, Knapp, Meretsky, Chancellor, Fischer
The use of conservation easements as a conservation mechanism for private land has increased greatly in the past decade; conservation easements now protect over 15 million ha across the United States from residential and commercial development. We used a mailed survey and in-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hitchcock
From the text ... 'Since 1975, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and of the Interior have had an interagency master agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) that allows DOD to provide firefighting support to the wildland fire management agencies when needed.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins
LANDFIRE is a 5-year, multipartner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regimes and ecological departure from historical conditions across the United States. It is a shared project between the wildland fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abt, Prestemon, Gebert
The US Forest Service and other land-management agencies seek better tools for anticipating future expenditures for wildfire suppression. We developed regression models for forecasting US Forest Service suppression spending at 1-, 2-, and 3-year lead times. We compared these…
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
Penn
The combination of a gutted B.C. Forest Service, vast areas of not sufficiently restocked forest lands, a quirky loophole in the Kyoto Protocol and a provincial government ideologically driven to sell off public assets has created the perfect opportunity to burn down B.C.'s…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neugarten, Wolf, Stedman, Tear
Large-scale sell-offs of industrial timberlands in the United States have prompted public and private investments in a new class of ''working forest'' land deals, notable for their large size and complex divisions of property rights. These transactions have been pitched as ''win…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Becker, Larson, Lowell
The Harvest Cost-Revenue Estimator, a financial model, was used to examine the cost sensitivity of forest biomass harvesting scenarios to targeted policies designed to stimulate wildfire hazardous fuel reduction projects. The policies selected represent actual policies enacted…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cheng, Steelman, Moseley
U.S. wildfire policy and governance increasingly emphasize collaboration among levels of government and between government and non-governmental entities, expanding the roles and duties of nonfederal and nongovernmental organizations, and instituting performance-based measures to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Abatzoglou, Brown, Syphard
Federally designated wilderness areas of the United States are to be managed so that natural ecological processes such as fire and other disturbances can function without human interference. Consistent with this intent, policy and law support the strategy of allowing lightning-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landres, Boutcher, Dean, Hall, Blett, Carlson, Mebane, Hardy, Rinehart, Merigliano, Cole, Leach, Wright, Bumpus
The purpose of monitoring wilderness character is to improve wilderness stewardship by providing managers a tool to assess how selected actions and conditions related to wilderness character are changing over time. Wilderness character monitoring provides information to help…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Everett, Fuller
Legislators exhort government agencies to work with the public to reduce fire hazards in the wildland-urban interface. However, working with an unorganized 'public' is a challenge for agencies. We present survey research on fire safe councils in California, community-based…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Preisler, Burgan, Eidenshink, Klaver, Klaver
The current study presents a statistical model for assessing the skill of fire danger indices and for forecasting the distribution of the expected numbers of large fires over a given region and for the upcoming week. The procedure permits development of daily maps that forecast…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ray
Sustainable resource management depends upon the participation of resource-dependent communities. Competing values between community members and government agencies and among groups within a community can make it difficult to find mutually acceptable management goals and can…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hilbruner, Peterson
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks
Stephen Pyne is a world-renowned environmental historian and author who, over the past three decades, has produced numerous books dealing extensively with the history of fire on Earth and its strong linkage to the evolving role of humans on this planet. With his humanities and…
Year: 2011
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
Becker, McCaffrey, Abbas, Halvorsen, Jakes, Moseley
The appeal of biomass utilization grows as the need for wildfire risk reduction, economic development, and renewable energy generation becomes more pressing. However, uncertainty exists regarding the factors necessary to stimulate use. We draw on in-depth interviews with local…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steelman, McCaffrey
Conventional wisdom within American federal fire management agencies suggests that external influence such as community or political pressure for aggressive suppression are key factors circumscribing the ability to execute less aggressive fire management strategies. Thus, a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES