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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alexander, Taylor, Page
Using the 2013 Yarnell Hill fatality fire in Arizona as a backdrop, this paper considers whether the global wildland fire community has failed on-the-ground firefighters. To begin answering this question two specific lines of inquiry are addressed: (i) was the fire behavior…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carroll, Paveglio
One of the immediate challenges of wildfire management concerns threats to human safety and property in residential areas adjacent to non-cultivated vegetation. One approach for relieving this problem is to increase human community 'adaptiveness' to deal with the risk and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Wildland Fire Library is a collection of long-term assessments, fire progressions, fire behavior reports, and other documents and resources to support fire modeling and assessment of long-duration fires. Each file is tied to some event with a location, a start date, and…
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy is a collaborative process to seek national, all-lands solutions to wildland fire management issues, focusing on three goals: Restore and maintain resilient landscapes, create fire adapted communities and, safe and…
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations, states, references, or supplements policy and provides program direction for Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service fire and fire aviation program…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Whalen
“Any safety system depends crucially on the willing participation of the workforce, the people in direct contact with the hazards. To achieve this, it is necessary to engineer a reporting culture – an organizational climate in which people are prepared to report their errors… An…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brengarth, Mujkic
This study examines how Web 2.0 applications were used during a catastrophic wildfire in the Western United States that claimed two human lives, more than 18,000 acres of land and nearly 350 homes. The study sheds light on how Web 2.0 applications were applied as a tool to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Penman, Eriksen, Horsey, Bradstock
Wildfire has resulted in significant loss of property and lives. Residents can improve the probability of survival of structures and themselves by undertaking suitable preparation. Only a small proportion of residents adequately prepare for wildfire with monetary and time costs…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide is designed to help local public health officials prepare for smoke events, to take measures to protect the public when smoke is present, and communicate with the public about wildfire smoke and health. The 2016 version has been updated with the assistance and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vigneaux
The U.S. federal wildland fire management system continues to experience rises in the number of acres burned annually and increases in management expenditures surrounded by firefighter death and injury. Despite a wealth of relevant academic research regarding wildland…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Alexander
The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System is a systematic method for assessing wildland fire behavior potential. This field guide provides a simplified version of the system, presented in tabular format. It was prepared to assist field staff in making first…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Thomas, Ziegler, Gabor, Fox
Managing wildland fire is an exercise in risk perception, sensemaking and resilient performance. Risk perception begins with individual size up of a wildfire to determine a course of action, and then becomes collective as the fire management team builds and continuously updates…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Wildland fire potential is best described as a combination of available fuels, suitable weather conditions and sources of ignitions and weather is the most spatially and temporally variable of these three…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Butler
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
All wildland firefighters are required to identify a location to which they can retreat in the event that fire conditions threaten their safety. These areas termed safety zones. However it was not until the work…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reid, Brauer, Johnston, Jerrett, Balmes, Elliott
Background: Wildfire activity is predicted to increase in many parts of the world due to changes in temperature and precipitation patterns from global climate change. Wildfire smoke contains numerous hazardous air pollutants and many studies have documented population health…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
A series of presentations in which experts explore the trade-offs between wildfire, prescribed fire, forest health, and public health in a one day public forum. This seminar event was hosted by the University of British Columbia on April 18th, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
In this issue we explore the intent of—and response to—Mark Smith’s essay “The Big Lie.” Smith shares why he wrote this provocative piece and what he believes our next steps should be. Veteran wildland firefighter and current AFMO Dave Williams continues “The Big Lie” discussion…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing revisions to certain sections within the regulations that govern the exclusion of event-influenced air quality data from certain regulatory decisions under the Clean Air Act (CAA). The EPA’s mission includes preserving and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Characterizing public tolerance of smoke from wildland fires in communities across the United States
Little is known about public tolerance of smoke from wildland fires. By combining data from two household surveys, we sought to determine whether tolerance of smoke from wildland fires varies with its origin or managerial rationale, to describe geographical variation in…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Working on a wildland fire incident, you are responsible for the safety of yourself and those around you. At high exposure levels, smoke inhalation can jeopardize this safety by impairing your decision-making abilities. If your health is impaired your judgment and decision…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This website contains links to podcasts produced by the Wildland Fires Lessons Learned Center.
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The theme of our special 20th Anniversary Issue focuses on how we need to widen the definition of “survivor” of traumatic fire line accidents. We share the stories, insights, and lessons of four survivors of a line of duty wildland firefighter death. In doing so, we explore the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
National Weather Service Incident Meteorologists (IMET) provide onsite, tactical weather support for wildland fires and other incidents.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES