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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Terhune
In his article Fuelbreaks for Wildland Fire Management, (Fire Ecology, Vol 1, Nbr 1, April 2005), Timothy Ingalsbee calls for '...wider range of designs, methods, and uses for fuelbreaks than has been offered in the typical fuelbreak proposals of the past.' But then he takes a…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viegas
From the text ... ''Eruptive fire behavior can be modeled and predicted mathematically.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rachaniotis, Pappis
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donahue
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor, Alexander
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nasiatka, Christenson
From the text ... 'Wildland fuels programs around the country are faced with periodic review and evaluations.... The Lessons Learned Center cooperated with Harvard Business School as it developed the first of its kind organizational learning survey to help individuals and units…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sexton
From the text ... 'Line officer support and active involvement was identified as the most important common denominator of the high-performance prescribed fire programs.... This personnel interchange between units not only helps accomplish agency targets, but it enhances the…
Year: 2006
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
Zimmerman, Lasko
From the text ... 'Early prescribed natural fire efforts were tacitly supported, limited in extent, and carried out under close scrutiny.... Wildland fire use has moved beyond the confines of remote, inaccessible areas. It is expanding across an increasing variety of land use…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sexton
From the text ... 'The 1988 Yellowstone Fire controversy caused the USDA Forest Service to evaluate the risks and benefits of its wildland fire use program.... After the National Fire Plan was initiated, a significant increase in wildland fire use accomplishment occurred.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Livingston
From the text ... 'As fire season progresses and multiple assignments and traveling begin to take their physical toll, so do the physical and mental demands on our fire personnel.... Originally developed in 1984, 'Fireline Fitness,' could be the solution. This novel approach to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keller
From the text ... ''Fireline Fitness' is an exciting, innovative, and novel approach to physical health and conditioning for wildland firefighters.... By promoting a healthy wildland fire workforce, the Fireline Fitness program benefits the agency as well as the individual.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chamberlin
From the text ... 'Career wildland firefighters usually pass through a portal of sorts: a 'safety awareness portal' that gives them new perspectives, altering their reality.... Transiting the portal is like a wakeup call.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keller
From the text ... ''A lesson is truly learned when we modify our behavior to reflect what we now know.' -- Paula Nasiatka, Center Manager, Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center. 'The Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center enables wildland fire professionals to improve their…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bosworth
From the text ... 'Implementing this approach to our work will take time; it will be an ongoing process.... I am entirely confident the Forest Service is up to the task.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The environment in which we do this job is fundamentally different than ever before. It continues to change at an unprecedented pace. Our future is stormy; our case is new. We must discard the old paradigms and move ahead.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kirkendall
From the text ... 'The need for this effort and resulting foundational doctrine could not be more timely.... To allow our efforts and the product to languish would be a fatal flaw in the process.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Your identity is based on your contribution -- not your rank. 'When you get this much intelligence and passion in a room -- good things happen.' -- Faye Fentiman, management consultant-facilitator.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire suppression duties today are performed in a political, cultural, and physical environment that is more challenging than ever before.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hollenshead
From the text ... 'Without clearly articulated doctrinal principles in wildland fire suppression, the agency has no consistent basis for its actions or responses.... The current risk to the agency is that improper behaviors, poor judgment, or the lack of critical decisionmaking…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Apicello
From the text ... 'Although the overall theme of this issue of Fire Management Today is 'safety,' for the most part, our authors are really addressing the collective consequences and outcomes that have emerged as safety issues during the last dozen fire season....It is…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maupin
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nazzaro
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
Presented for Lesson 30 of the S-590 Advanced Fire Behavior Interpretation Course at the National Advanced Resource Technology Center in Marana, Arizona, 5-17 March 2006.
Lesson Objectives:
Gather a cursory understanding of the philosophy and structure of the Canadian Forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This article describes the work performed by Steve Otway in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an M.Sc. degree in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Alberta. His work has furthered some of the initiatives taken to extend…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES