The wildland fire situation is a question of risk. Risk is in essence the exposure to a chance of loss. However, putting concept of risk into practice is quite complex. Each of the parts of any risk — probability, exposure pathway, and loss value - is...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Cleaves
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
The fire season of 2000 is one of the most severe on record, burning approximately seven million acres by the end of September—over 2.5 times the 10-year average of 2.6 million acres. Fires burning in the wildland-urban interface have resulted in...
Person: Hesseln, Rideout
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Problem Statement: An logical application and documentation process is needed to prioritize, quantify and determine costs for fire prevention and fuels treatment areas and to predict or model the effectiveness of prevention program options in the...
Person: Durland
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
FireFamily Plus is the new software for summarizing and analyzing daily weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS). While the software and packaging are new, many of the reports are...
Person: Brittain, Bevins, Bradshaw
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
National Forest and Grassland fire management has historically emphasized wildfire suppression and provided prescribed fire and fuel management support to other resources. Many fire management fuel treatments often occurred in a fragmented pattern...
Person: Caratti, Hann, Long, Menakis
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Southern Appalachian forests are undergoing considerable change due to altered disturbance regimes. For example, fire exclusion has had a major impact on the structure and function of pine/hardwood ecosystems. Recently, fire has been used in a variety...
Person: Clinton, Vose, Knoepp, Elliott
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From Web Document, Executive Summary... ' Premise This strategy is based on the premise that sustainable resources are predicated on healthy, resilient ecosystems. In fire-adapted ecosystems, some measure of fire use - at appropriate intensity,...
Person: Laverty, Williams
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The difference between fire suppression and fire use is that firefighting can tell a marvelous story, whereas prescribed burning cannot. ... They remain the fires of record. They became huge because they timed perfectly the...
Person: Pyne
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The Cerro Grande Fire resulted from an escaped prescribed burn designed to minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire to the community of Los Alamos.'
Person: Paxon
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
The biodiversity of fire-dependent ecosystems is increasingly threatened by habitat fragmentation and fire suppression. Reducing species loss requires that salient features of natural fire regimes be incorporated into managed regimes, Lightning-season...
Person: Hiers, Wyatt, Mitchell
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS