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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rideout, Loomis, Omi
The increased importance of non-market values in land management planning means that fire management and planning needs to more directly and effectively incorporate them into the planning and decision-making process. This means developing better understanding of the role of non-…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Understanding how ignitions occur is critical for effectively mitigating home fire losses during wildland fires. The threat of life and property losses during wildland fires is a significant issue for Federal, State, and local agencies that have responsibilities involving homes…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hesseln, Rideout
Evolving wildfire management policies are aimed at more comprehensive treatments of current wildland fire management problems. Key policies are identified that affect wildfire and fuels management. Policies are discussed in the context of institutional factors such as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Snyder
Wildland fire protection in the United States has evolved from predominantly protecting natural resources values to protecting values of the urban-wildland interface. Providing fire protection in this 'unnatural' ecosystem has become more complex. Wildland fire suppression costs…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hesseln, Rideout
Wildland fire management strategies often have long-term economic and ecological impacts, as evidenced by the increase in fire danger resulting from the total suppression policy of the last several decades. In the long run, the choice of an optimal wildland fire management…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Rideout, Omi
The economic efficiency of the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS) and FIREPRO is examined. A brief history of the two programs is provided, as well as recent improvements to the contemporary theory of cost plus net value change (C+NVC). The NFMAS process is…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McAlpine, Hirsch
The Level of Protection Analysis System (LEOPARDS) allows the structured assessment of the outcomes and costs associated with alternative fire management policies, budgets, and suppression resource mixes. Its primary component is a deterministic, spatially conscious simulation…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuster, Krebs
A sensitivity analysis was conducted of the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS) to better understand the relationship between data input and model output. After consultations with fire managers and researchers, five input variables were selected for sensitization:…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lundgren
Wildland fire suppression policy in the USDA Forest Service has evolved over the years from forceful attempts to control all wildland fires at the smallest possible size to consideration of other land management and economic factors during suppression decision making. In 1978,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuster
Soaring expenditures for fire management in the USDA Forest Service have caused substantial concern over fire management costs, especially in light of questions about the role of fire in ecosystems. This report contains analysis of most Forest Service fire management…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mangan
To significantly reduce the costs of fighting large wildfires, fire managers must address the most costly areas. These areas are in aviation resources; equipment, food, showers, and toilets (56.6 percent of total costs); and in personnel (31.7 percent of total costs). Because…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert, Schuster
A quantitative tool was developed to predict USDA Forest Service fire suppression expenditures by fiscal year on the basis of fire activity data (i.e., number of fires and acres burned) from Incident Management Situation Reports. Regional regression models were developed with…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferry
The wildland fire management program has maintained strong support from the public and Congress. This program costs the public about 1 billion dollars per year; thus, it receives much scrutiny by congressional committees. All of the Federal agencies with wildland fire management…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Botti
The USDI National Park Service (NPS) manages a wide variety of land areas throughout the nation. These lands contain many priceless resources such as historic properties, rare species, critical habitats, and special concern biological communities. They also provide a large…
Year: 1999
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
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
Sandberg, Hardy, Ottmar, Snell, Acheson, Peterson, Seamon, Lahm, Wade
This strategic plan is a technical discussion of the implementation and development of models and data systems used to manage the air quality impacts of wildland and prescribed fires. Strategies and priorities in the plan were generated by the Express Team (chartered by the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Ottmar, Hallett
Fire managers and safety officers concerned with smoke exposure among fire crews can use electronic carbon monoxide (CO) monitors to track and prevent overexposure to smoke. Commonly referred to as dosimeters, these lightweight instruments measure the concentration of CO in the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Crookston, Stage
Estimates of percent canopy cover generated by the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) are corrected for crown overlap using an equation presented in this paper. A comparison of the new cover estimate to some others is provided. The cover estimate is one of several describing…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston
A new feature has been added to the Forest Vegetation Simulator directly providing data for the Stand Visualization System. This feature is the SVS keyword. The new feature is faster, does a better job of maintaining the tree location information, and provides more information…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The FORBS Program is based on the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS). It utilizes existing Personal Computer Historical Analysis (PCHA), Interagency Initial Attack Assessment (IIAA), and Arc View processes. FORBS is tied to the Suppression Analysis developed in…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
Chapter 13 in the book titled, Issues in Landscape Ecology.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seli
In early July of 1997, I was assigned to the Inowak Fire in southwest Alaska as a Fire Behavior Analyst (FBAN). The fire started late in June in a Limited Suppression Zone southwest of McGrath, but on July 4 and 5 it made major runs toward three native villages on the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fact sheet on the final regional haze regulations for protection of visibility in national parks and wilderness areas.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Galizia, Kinney
Few studies have examined the respiratory effects of multiyear ozone exposures in human populations. We examined associations between current respiratory health status and long-term ozone exposure histories in 520 Yale College (New Haven, CT) students who never smoked.…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES