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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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The 'public' are all the stakeholders in the resource-planning area. The public includes those who serve on the Planning Committee, and those who are not actively involved in the planning process. This fact sheet focuses on noncommittee members of the public, and ways that…
Year: 1999
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

Boyd
Literature review of 40 articles related to research in landscape and woodland perceptions, aesthetics and experience.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Arbogast
This report is the result of an extensive literature search to determine the knowledge regarding visual resource management, visual assessment, and aesthetics in landscape development (especially, industrial minerals mining and reclamation). There is public and governmental…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Grissino-Mayer
Many studies us the temporal record of dendrochronologically-dated fire scars to document properties of fire regimes before human interference (e.g. fire suppression, logging, and agriculture) became pervasive. Such reconstructions provide vital information that can be used by…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Vaux, Gardner, Mills
Methods for assessing the impact of fire on forest recreation were studied in a literature search and an experiment. Contingent market valuation appeared the most promising. This direct, economic approach uses personal interviews and sets up a hypothetical market transaction in…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kumagai, Daniels
This annotated bibliography is collected from professional journals in natural resource management and sociology, conference proceedings, and technical reports. It is categorized into thirteen sections: acceptability, fire in wilderness, general, history, institutions, media,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kerstetter
ANNOTATION: This paper reviews the topic of biomass air gasifiers. The gasification process chemistry is outlined and the operating characteristics of two types of gasifiers are presented. A few typical applications are discussed and the economics for a particular system are…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Leenhouts
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Jenkins, Chojnacky, Heath, Birdsey
ANNOTATION: This report compiled all available diameter-based allometric regression equations for estimating total aboveground and component biomass, defined in dry weight terms, for trees in the United States. A modified meta-analysis based on the published equations to develop…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Manfredo, Fishbein, Hass, Watson
ANNOTATION: This article discusses social considerations with respect to public wildland forest fire policy. Social attitudes, beliefs and behavioral intentions of wildland fire are described as well as the public's knowledge of the effects of fire. This study details these…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Mason, Lippke, Zobrist, Bloxton, Ceder, Comnick, McCarter, Rogers
ANNOTATION: Although large trees can be removed for valuable products, the market value for the smaller logs may be less than the harvest and hauling charges, resulting in a net cost for thinning operations. However, failure to remove these small logs results in the retention of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Meyer
ANNOTATION: This paper briefly describes the history of the logging industry in the United States. Specifically, harvesting technology and methods are discussed. Many significant and far-reaching changes have taken place in the logging industry since its inception in the mid-…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mitchell
ANNOTATION: This paper provides an overview of existing literature related to the harvest, communition and transport of forest residues. Past studies have investigated the systems associated with biomass harvesting. Researchers have explored whether to incorporate the biomass…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

ANNOTATION: The authors of this synthesis have implemented several studies over the years, and this CD is an attempt to compile this data in a usable format. The Executive Summary has ten primary research topic areas related to biomass: Baling/bundling; biomass harvesting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Morris
ANNOTATION: This report estimates the value of ancillary services provided by the U.S. biomass industry in order to inform policy makers on the viability of the biomass industry. Specifically, criteria air pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions, landfill capacity use, forest and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Nicholls
ANNOTATION: This case study review considers successes and lessons learned from current wood energy systems in Alaska, and also considers opportunities for future bioenergy development. Biomass resources in Alaska are extensive and diverse, comprising millions of acres of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

ANNOTATION: This report examines the domestic and international markets for biopower. Domestic and foreign markets present fundamentally different challenges to private power developers. The domestic challenge lies in finding economically viable opportunities for biopower.…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Prestemon, Abt, Holmes
ANNOTATION: This paper outlines a Joint Fire Science Program funded study, 'A national study of the economic impacts of biomass removals to mitigate wildfire damages on federal, state, and private lands.' The study involves using the treatment-product and cost information…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Puttock
ANNOTATION: Often the deciding factor in the economical recovery of wood fuel is its relationship with some other objective such as stand establishment, stand improvement, or forest access. The costs and benefits arising from these related management activities are discussed.…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Robatcek
ANNOTATION: The purpose of the paper is to discuss some of the implications of improved residue utilization on timber sales activities. Improved residue utilization on timber sales requires new and innovative economic and practical approaches on timber sales. Varying uses,…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Roos, Graham, Hektor, Rakos
ANNOTATION: This paper contributes to the identification and analysis of barriers and drivers behind bioenergy market growth. It presents a framework for the analysis of both existing and projected bioenergy market potential, using economic concepts and models from transaction…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Schweitzer
ANNOTATION: As the values of wood products increase, there are more economic opportunities to utilize residues. This is true both for dead-and-down materials and for previously unharvested stands which, together, make up the potential economic residues resource. A variety of…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sedjo
ANNOTATION: This paper undertakes a preliminary exploration into the economics of generating energy from forest-based biomass. The study assesses the feasibility of greatly expanding the share of total energy consumption in developed countries that could be economically…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES