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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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A National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy

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

Aerial ingiters provide a new dimension to indirect attack

Quintilio, Bisgrove, Van
This paper reviews the unique aerial ignition device developed originally in Australia and the chronological work in Canada that eventually produced the Aerial Ignition Device and the Helitorch. It is of interest to note that the project has gone full circle in that Australia…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Proceedings of the second conference on the human dimensions of wildland fire

This proceedings contains articles, posters, and abstracts of presentations from the second Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference held 27-29 April 2010 in San Antonio, Texas. The conference covered the social issues at the root of wildland fire management's most serious…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Danger tree mitigation guidelines for managers

Hoffman
Danger trees present a safety concern for anyone working on or visiting public lands. Between 2001 and 2009, eight wildland firefighters were killed in danger tree accidents. Many injuries and near-misses involving Forest Service employees, contractors, and forest visitors…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

An electronic timer for measuring spread rates of wildland fires

Blank, Simard
There are many disadvantages to current techniques for measuring the spread rate of wildland fires. This paper describes the design and use of an electronic timer that resolves most of the problems. The unit is small, lightweight, inexpensive, easy-to-assemble, self-contained,…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS