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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bahrani
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of weathering on the performance of intumescent fire-retardant coatings on wooden products. The weathering effects included primary (solar irradiation, moisture, and temperature) and secondary (environmental contaminants…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hannah
This contextual essay provides a full description of The Smokey Generation, an applied thesis project designed around creating an interactive website that collects and presents oral histories and digital stories of current and past wildland firefighters, with an initial focus on…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Diaz, Evans
Prescribed fire has become a widely adopted tool to manage ecosystems and mitigate the risk of wildfire across the country. Obstacles for the implementation of prescribed fire continue to be identified. Based on a national survey, capacity was reported to be a primary impediment…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nowell, Steelman
Communication networks among responders are critical to effective coordination and information transfer across agencies active in a disaster response. Using the theory of embeddedness, we investigate how aspects of relational and institutional embeddedness influence the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The information in this report comes from wildland fire incidents-from various agencies-submitted to and gathered by the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center (LLC) in 2015. The primary source of data is accident reports (FLA, RLS, SAI, etc.). Most of these reports have been…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dennison, Fryer, Campbell, Cova, Butler
Safety zones are designated areas that reduce firefighter heat exposure to tolerable levels by providing separation between personnel and fuels. Along with Lookouts, Communications, and Escape routes, Safety zones are a component of the 'LCES' procedures for reducing risk of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Davis
The mission was the same back then as it is today. The methods, tools, and rules for accomplishing that mission, however, were different back then than those of today.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goldammer
'First load to the box.' Calmly, but with urgency, these words rolled through the intercom while I was in the loft working on a project for the afternoon. As the alarm sounded through the building, I knew that meant we had a fire call, and without hesitation, I dropped…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cottrell
What does it take to become a smokejumper is a question that smokejumpers across the country are regularly asked, but the answer is not simple. Each year, there are hundreds of applicants seeking to become smokejumpers.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bramwell
This year celebrates the 75th anniversary of the first test of one of fire management's most iconic activities: smokejumping. Whether one counts as the true dawn of the smokejumper the first test jumps conducted in Winthrop, WA, in 1939, or the first live fire jump a year later…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paveglio, Moseley, Carroll, Williams, Davis, Fischer
Understanding the local context that shapes collective response to wildfire risk continues to be a challenge for scientists and policymakers. This study utilizes and expands on a conceptual approach for understanding adaptive capacity to wildfire in a comparison of 18 past case…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wei, Bevers, Belval, Bird
This research developed a chance-constrained two-stage stochastic programming model to support wildfire initial attack resource acquisition and location on a planning unit for a fire season. Fire growth constraints account for the interaction between fire perimeter growth and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dague, Hirami
A former US Forest Service Sector Boss recalls the introduction of the Incident Command System in 1975, and how it became a model for international disaster response.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ellison, Moseley, Bixler
Over the past century, wildland fire management has been core to the mission of federal land management agencies. In recent decades, however, federal spending on wildfire suppression has increased dramatically; suppression spending that on average accounted for less than 20…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell
On May 19, 2014, during unusually dry weather, a fire started in a popular recreational area near Funny River Road in the Kenai, near Newberry's home. The wind pushed it through dry grasses and into insect-killed stands of spruce. By the end of the day, fire had consumed 2,500…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reinhardt
Climate controls the magnitude, duration, and frequency of weather conditions associated with extreme fire behavior. In a warming climate, we are experiencing earlier snowmelt, longer fire seasons, and greater incidence of drought. We expect these trends to increase.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Peterson, Davis, Eckhause, Pouy, Sigalas-Markham, Volovo
Undoubtedly, high-technology equipment, like unmanned aircraft systems, offer distinct advantages in the identification, containment, and control of wildland fires. These systems, however, can be costly-and complicated. As Federal and State wildland management agencies plan to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hodges, Finley, Luloff
Fire prevention and fuel treatments have enjoyed renewed and enhanced support. However, the use of fire prevention measures for enhancing ecosystem services has not found purchase in either the publics acceptance or involvement in this new role of and for fire. This is…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Toman, Brenkert-Smith, Curtis, Sharp
Fire and fuels reduction are completed within a complex context. This is particularly true at the interface of public and private lands where management is often closely scrutinized by stakeholders. In these settings, private and public land managers typically seek to achieve…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Gage, Martin
Stephen Gage, Assistant Director, Operations for fire and aviation management USFS & Kevin Martin, Forest Supervisor, Umatilla National Forest presents Large incident risk assessments: The roles of the agency administrator and the resource specialist.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Ellison
Over the past century, wildland fire management has been core to the mission of federal land management agencies. In recent decades, however, federal spending on wildfire suppression has increased dramatically; suppression spending that on average accounted for less than 20…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Tongier, Kuenzi, Hansen, Peltz-Lewis, Lile, Mellin
To inform wildland fire incident GIS resource people about the status of topics impacting the 2015 fire season.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Valachovic
During this Webinar, Yana Valachovic will discuss the types, placement, and maintenance of landscape plants to reduce risk of home ignition. She will also discuss various elements of home design that mitigates home loss during a wildfire.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Zylstra
Shirley Zylstra, of USFS Missoula Technical Development Center (fs.fed.us/eng/techdev/mtdc.htm), gave a talk and demonstration on the properties of aerial retardant, foams and gels along with tips on improving effectiveness. She presented this at two different sessions, in…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Randi Jandt talked about the evolution of Alaska firefighting practices (field and management)over the past 50 years. We are starting to be aware of the changes in climate and in Alaska forests: is the wildfire "problem" the same one we faced a half-century ago? Have our…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES