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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Schaitberger
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Hall, Westerling
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beighley
From the text ... 'In order to assure safe fireline operations, firefighters need processes to evaluate fireline safety that are measurable, consistent, and transferable.... There should never be any uncertainty about the location of safety zones and excape routes, the adequacy…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gleason
From the text ... 'The LCES system approach to fireline safety is an outgrowth of my analysis of fatalities and near-misses for over 20 years of active fireline suppression duties. LCES simply refocuses on the essential elements of the standard Fire Orders. Its use should be…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morse
From the text ... 'Scotoma -- blindness to danger perceived as routine -- had taken hold and blocked out sensitivity to hazardous events or conditions present in the fire environment.... The relationship is clearly established between fireline fatalities and a lack of awareness…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis, Chandler
From the text ... 'Vortex turbulence consists of a pair of miniature whirlwinds trailing from the wingtips of any aircraft in flight.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Colson
From the text ... 'Many fires have been designated as 'blow-ups' simply because of a lack of understanding of the factors controlling the behavior of these fires.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cramer
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neznek
From the text...'On December 3, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, legislation designed to expedite hazardous fuel reduction projects and improve forest health conditions in the nation's forests. Several provisions of this legislation alter…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Monserud, Lowell, Becker, Hummel, Donoghue, Barbour, Kilborn, Nicholls, Roos, Cantrell
Contemporary wood utilization research needs in the Western United States are examined in this problem analysis. Key focal areas include: A. Changes in forest management actions and policies affect forest conditions and people, which in turn affect wood quality and wood…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guyette, Dey
Ignitions, fuels, topography, and climate interact through time to create temporal and spatial differences in the frequency of fire, which, in turn, affects ecosystem structure and function. In many ecosystems non-human ignitions are overwhelmed by anthropogenic ignitions. Human…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Noble
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
There are few aspects of wildland fire that attract the public and media attention as does fire in the wildland-urban interface. A relatively new phenomenon in the United States, these fires now burn or damage hundreds of homes each year from Florida to Alaska. While there is a…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ackerman, Dakin
Clearings in forest stands, no matter how small, are often viewed as places of refuge in the event of a sudden, unexpected change in fire behavior. Over a period of several years, as part of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in the Northwest Territories,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Lanoville
Several fuel treatment demonstration trials or case studies were carried out as part of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), Northwest Territories: 1) demonstrating the value of fully leafed-out trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) stands as fuelbreaks…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Stocks
The 22nd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference featured a special session on selected aspects of the wildland fire research carried out during the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), co-chaired by M.E. Alexander of the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) and R.A.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch, Kafka, Todd
During the next few decades, a considerable portion of the productive boreal forest in Canada will be harvested and there is an excellent opportunity to use forest management activities (e.g., harvesting, regeneration, stand tending) to alter the forest fuels for fire management…
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
Valerio
On 4 May 2000, the Bandelier National Monument initiated a prescribed fire south and west of the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to reduce accumulated forest fuels near Cerro Grande Peak. On 5 May, the fire was declared a wildfire…
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
Sturm, Weaver
From the text ... 'Communicating with educators in rural Alaska is hard, but it is critical that Alaskan educators have access to exciting, interdisciplinary fire education materials. ...Distance education is an excellent tool to help reach wildland fire ecology, behavior, and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS