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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Paveglio
This synthesis uses an overarching analogy to outline key wildfire social science lessons and present human adaptation to wildfire as an ongoing process of negotiated trade-offs dictated by the site-specific context of particular places. Use of an overarching analogy allows…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon
Greg Dillon of the USDA Forest Service's Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) gives an overview of the work FMI does in wildland fire.
Webinar hosted by National Weather Service IMET.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barrett
Decision makers are desperately seeking solutions to the wildfire crisis in the West. Driven by several concurrently rising trends—including home development, climate change, accumulated fuels, and human ignitions—increasing risks require us to fundamentally rethink our…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Flores, Haire
For over 100 years, the US Forest Service (USFS) has developed initiatives to improve safety outcomes. Herein we discuss the engineered solutions used from 1910 through 1994, when the agency relied on physical science to address the hazards of wildland fire suppression. We then…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reugebrink
Considering the intensity of the past year, from historic wildfires to social and economic tensions to a global pandemic, it is no wonder that many of us are experiencing burnout, stress, and anxiety. This includes first responders who regularly experience critical incidents and…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Baker
As our societies grow and change, the wildland fire community has to continue to evolve in its workforce and practices to better meet the expectations place upon it. Although the thought of and having diversity, equity, and inclusion conversations can be challenging, they…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Butler, McCaffrey, Jones
Part of the Co-Management of Fire Risk Transmission (CoMFRT) webinar series
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jakes
To improve access, interpretability, and use of the full body of research, a pilot project was initiated by the USDA Forest Service to synthesize relevant scientific information and develop publications and decision support tools that managers can use to inform fuels treatment…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Federal, state, tribal and local governments are making unprecedented efforts to reduce the buildup of fuels and restore forests and rangelands to healthy conditions. Yet, needless red tape and lawsuits delay effective implementation of forest health projects…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
Fire ecology is discussed in relation to basic ecological processes; the characteristics of the fire environment are reviewed. Lightning and lightning storms are considered as the primary natural cause of fires in nature. The nature of fire and its relationship to plants,…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Driessen
Describes the role played by crew cohesion in the deaths of firefighters in three firefighting tragedies: the Mann Gulch Fire, the South Canyon Fire, and the Thirtymile Fire. Two types of cohesion are involved, the cohesion within a crew (intracrew cohesion) and the cohesion…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hill, Janik, Belak, Cotton, Dominicci, Johnson, Jones, Joy, Vargas
From the text ... 'Our work has shown that a single focal point is critical for efforts -- such as reducing severe wildland fires and the vegetation that fuels them -- that involve many federal agencies as well as state and local governments, the private sector, and private…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sexton
From the text ... 'A coordinated, interagency effort is required to ensure that fire use programs are implemented in a professional and competent manner.... Fire management is as much a philosophy and attitude toward the land as it is an action program.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stewart
From the text ... 'These 'problem fires' are the symptoms of a larger forest health issue in which ecological realities conflict with both social expectations and economic limitations.... Only through dedication and alignment of the full force and capabilities of integrated,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Munson, Fisher
From the text ... 'A transfer of command should not be confused with a transition in fire behavior or in situational complexity on a fire. ...Recognizing potentially deadly changes in fire behavior should begin on the first day of fire season.'
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kearns
From the text (p. 26) ... 'Wildfire has destroyed forests across the West. Help is needed to restore the life-giving 'natural capital' they provide. ... Wildfires are changing the landscape across the country and often not for the better. A long-standing policy of putting out…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Englin, Boxall, Hauer
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alvarez
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fettig
The Healthy Forest Restoration Act (H. R. 1904) allows for increases in hazardous fuel reduction activities throughout much of the western USA. Our laboratory is currently conducting several studies to determine the short and long‐term implications to forest health of prescribed…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) provided fire research scientists an outdoor laboratory to test a theoretical, physical-based fire model and to conduct a wide variety of concurrent experiments. The crown fire experiments, located 40 km northeast of Fort…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Gray, Steele, Needoba, Green, MacKenzie
In 2000 the Squamish Forest District began a pilot project to study the effects of prescribed fire on forest succession, fuel dynamics, regeneration, wildlife habitat, and timber supply within two landscape units encompassing 103,000 ha north of Pemberton, British Columbia.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hann
Fire regime and associated condition class mapping have provided key data for development of cohesive strategies for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems and for the National Fire Plan within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and U.S. Department of Interior…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS