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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Seamon
The Manual includes information on the organization's standard operating procedures, requirements, and guidelines regarding fire management. It also outlines the necessary steps for developing and maintaining a succesful fire management program. The Manual is a dynamic document…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paz
From the text ... 'Providing nationwide leadership in the development, testing, analysis, standardization, and evaluation of equipment, materials, and procedures for the protection and management of national forests and grasslands is the mission of the Forest Service Technology…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frey
From the text ... 'Having the right equipment for firefighting is not only necessary -- it's essential. Since 1954, the Forest Service has helped State agencies acquire usable, surplus equipment through the Federal Excess Personal Property (FEPP) Program to meet their…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferranti
From the text ... 'The year was 1915 and the forest Service's brief dalliance with Civil War blinkers and sunlight was a dismal failure (Coats 1984). Frustrated foresters needed to improve their ability to communicate, but radio technology would not be ready for the fireline for…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Finney, Fischetti
This article examines the growing number of wildfires in the United States. Forest fires are being fueled by deadwood and debris that have been allowed to accumulate by the caretakers of the land. The use of computer modeling is aiding in the prediction of where fires will occur…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The Supertanker is a 747 jet that has been transitioned and retailored into a 'super' large airtanker designed to suppress wildland fire. It can cruise at mach .86 -- or close to 600 miles-per-hour and deliver up to 17,000 gallons of product.At this time, the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frederick, Frederick
From the text ... 'Today, the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management smokejumper programs continue to be effective and heralded wildland firefighting forces. Walt Anderson -- firefighter, district ranger, fire manager, and ski jumper -- helped to get them off the ground.'
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lynch
From the text ... 'As a method for delivering firefighters into otherwise difficult-to-access backcountry fires, rappelling provided a practical alternative to parachuting.... The jumpers took what they did and adapted it to the helicopter.... Needless to say, it is an…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'These three trends -- WUI, Weather, and Wood -- along with our desire to light more fire, to allow more fire use events, and to suppress fires -- intersect in our profession.'
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Church
From the text ... 'In recent years, fatality fire tragedies such as South Canyon and Thirtymile have served as a catalyst for after-action reviews that emphasize the need for situational awareness. Recently, this led to reevaluating training tools and the 10 Standard…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hagen
From the text ... 'We had absolutely no knowledge of this firefighting business and were literally conscripted into service.... 'Come with us' were our orders.... This would be the last good night's sleep we would get for nearly 2 weeks.... After several days, our confidence and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
Wilderness medicine is the practice of providing medical attention when definitive care is further that 1 hour's travel time to provide medical treatment. In very remote locations, it can take days or weeks for rescuers to reach victims. The practice of wilderness medicine comes…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greulich
Airtankers, while actively engaging in initial attack, are sometimes reassigned and flown directly to another randomly occurring initial attack fire. Airtanker system planning that means to incorporate this fire-to-fire transfer activity needs information about the flight…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire season officially began on April 1st, and there had been 12 fire numbers issued by that time. The first fire number issued was a False Alarm on February 28th. The first actual fire that received a number was Mat-Su's Mothershead fire (#002) which was a 0.1 acre escaped…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hatfield, Wiitala, Wilson, Levy
An algorithm is described that quickly calculates minimum travel times between locations for initial response forest fire suppression units. The algorithm was developed for integration into wildfire planning simulation models to quickly identify fire suppression units with the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: There is a substantial global need for development of biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts systems and technologies that can economically and sustainably produce short rotation crops across multiple temporal and spatial scales. Topic areas in these proceedings were…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trethewey
A helicopter comparison index was developed to incorporate cost and benefit information for individual helicopters for large wildland fire suppression operations. The costs and benefits for individual helicopters are unique. Costs consist of daily availability and hourly flight…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wordell, Carlton
Cheetah 3 (Computerized Harmonic Evaluation of Episodes and Tools for Assessment of Help) was developed to support examination of fire occurrence patterns and fire suppression resource requirements at the National and Geographic Area level. Questions are frequently asked…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lentile, Morgan, Hardy, Hudak, Means, Ottmar, Robichaud, Sutherland, Szymoniak, Way, Fites-Kaufman, Lewis, Mathews, Shovik, Ryan
Rapid Response Research is conducted during and immediately after wildland fires, in coordination with fire management teams, in order to collect information that can best be garnered in situ and in real-time. This information often includes fire behavior and fire effects data,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES