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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
This plan, in concert with the on-line Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), serves as the decision support informationfor the (348) Shanta Creek fire. It is intended to identifieslong –range implementation actions for the calculated life of this incident. This plan is…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Butler
One of the most critical decisions made on wildland fires is the identification of suitable safety zones for firefighters during daily fire management operations. To be effective (timely, repeatable, and accurate), these decisions rely on good training and judgement, but also on…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kobziar, Rocca, Dicus, Hoffman, Sugihara, Thode, Varner, Morgan
Over the last 20 years, the duties of US fire professionals have become more complex and risk laden because of fuel load accumulation, climate change, and the increasing wildland-urban interface. Incorporation of fire use and ecological principles into fire management policies…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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