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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Frederick
From the text ... 'Given our fuels and topography, we rely a lot on engines, helicopters, and bulldozers to fight fire in the Bureau of Land Management.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sutton
From the text ... 'The problem with relying too much on memorization of rules to keep us safe is that we are presupposing that a firefighter's mind will retrieve the appropriate piece of memorized information for any situation, even under stress, and make it available just when…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scholz
From the text ... 'Most of us don't know the 10 standard firefighting orders and 18 watch out situations, the '10 & 18,' by heart. Judging by our fatality reports and close calls, it shows.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) has defoliated the balsam fir (Abies balsamea) component of many eastern North American forests, resulting in widespread mortality of these trees. Consequently, managers have become concerned about the potential for severe forest fires…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Canadian/United States cooperative mass fire behavior and atmospheric environmental impact study
Over the past four years scientists have cooperatively monitored fire behavior and smoke chemistry, on a number of large prescribed fires in the Province of Ontario. Primary cooperating agencies include Forestry Canada, the United States Forest Service, the National Aeronautics…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rhoades
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fried, Fried
The Fried and Fried containment algorithm, which models the effect of suppression efforts on fire growth, allows simulation of any mathematically representable fire shape, provides for 'head' and 'tail' attack tactics as well as parallel attack (building fireline parallel to but…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The first fire of the 2010 fire season started on March 24th, in the Mat-Su Area. By the end of April there had been 48 fires. Since records of fires by month specifically started being kept in 1996 at AICC, that number has only been surpassed twice, in 1997, with 67 fires by…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmoll
The 2009 Nenana Ridge Prescribed Burn proved to be a successful but complex operational and logistical accomplishment. Lessons learned from the fire management perspective include effectiveness of the treatments, specifications for future fuel treatments, operational…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES