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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mangan
From the text ... 'This article discusses factors that are critical to both firefighters and fire managers in ensuring a safe and productive workforce. First, it discusses such items as the work environment, the firefighter workforce, physical fitness, nutrition, work/rest…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The following table shows how safety violations identified by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) during its investigation of the Thirtymile Fire accident correspond to action items called for under the USDA Forest Service's Thirtymile…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sun
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacGregor, Haynes
The emergence of large fires of long duration (also known as siege fires) with their inherently high costs has raised numerous questions about the opportunities for cost containment. Cost reviews from the 2003 fire season have revealed how additional knowledge created through…
Year: 2005
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
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
Williams
From the text ... 'Wildland fire is a high-risk, high-consequence business. It is influenced by high social expectations and a low political tolerance for failure. Our environment is surrounded by uncertainty and danger. It is controlled more and more by our ability to measure,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zipperer
The urban-wildland intermix is a zone of urbanization that significatnly affects the biophysical components of ecosystmes in rural landscapes. To sustain ecosystem goods and services, ecosystem based-management of natural resources recognizes the importance of maintaining…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Munson, Haines
The expansion of urban zones into surrounding rural lands continues to increase as a result of growing populations and the desire among some urban workers to live in a more rural setting. This trend manifests itself at the interface in two primary ways: restrictions on forest…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marcouiller
Economic growth, development of efficient transportation networks, and increasing disposable incomes have led to a dramatic change in demands for open space, forest resources, and the amenities associated with forested land. This is particularly acute in the areas directly…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett
A standardized approach for characterizing floral and faunal communities on National Forests in the US has been developed through the USDA Forest Service*s (USDA FS) Natural Resources Information System (NRJS). We developed a method for extrapolation of floral and faunal…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kundell, Myszewski, DeMeo
Natural resources management and conservation in the wildland-urban interface ate complicated by current land-related public policies. These challenges are related to both the amount of land being developed in the interface and the speed with which this development is taking…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moffat, Greene
Economic conditions and tax policies affect land-use decisions everywhere, but their effects on the rate of change in land use are particularly large in the wildland-urban interface. Efforts to improve the southern economy as a whole have resulted in the rapid growth of urban…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zabinski
From the text ... 'On May 29, 2000, just 3 weeks after the Cerro Grande Fire was ignited in northern New Mexico's Bandelier National Monument, the Viveash Fire erupted some 30 miles (48 km) to the east, on the Santa Fe National Forest. A human-caused blaze, Viveash grew to 2,000…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gass, Robinson
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nute, Potter, Cheng, Dass, Glende, Maierv, Routh, Uchiyama, Wang, Witzig, Twery, Knopp, Thomasma, Rauscher
We present a flexible, extensible method for integrating multiple tools into a single large decision support system (DSS) using a forest ecosystem management DSS (NED-2) as an example. In our approach, a rich ontology for the target domain is developed and implemented in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Amacher, Malik, Haight
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saint-Germain, Larrivée, Drapeau, Fahrig, Buddle
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Morgan, Swetnam
Topography, vegetation, and climate act together to determine thespatial patterns of fires at landscape scales. Knowledge oflandscape-fire-climate relations at these broad scales (1,000s hato 100,000s ha) is limited and is largely based on inferences andextrapolations from fire…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sampson, Sampson
The application of hazard and risk analysis to specific project areas prone to uncharacteristic wildland fires is a useful way to estimate the effects of management alternatives (including no action). These project-level analyses need to be done in the context of surrounding…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Maguire, Albright
Organizations managing forest land often make fire management decisions that seem overly risk-averse in relation to their stated goals for ecosystem restoration, protection of sensitive species and habitats, and protection of water and timber resources. Research in behavioral…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Borchers
The risks, uncertainties, and social conflicts surrounding uncharacteristic wildfire and forest resource values have defied conventional approaches to planning and decision-making. Paradoxically, the adoption of technological innovations such as risk assessment, decision…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stephens, Ruth
Forest-fire policy of U.S. federal agencies has evolved from the use of small patrols in newly created National Parks to diverse policy initiatives and institutional arrangements that affect millions of hectares of forests. Even with large expenditures and substantial…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The 2005 fire season was unusually busy because weather conditions lined up the right combination of dry weather and ignitions from lightning strikes to result in large, long-lasting fires. On September 1, 2005, the number of acres burned in Alaska became greater than that of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES