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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Paz
From the text ... 'Providing nationwide leadership in the development, testing, analysis, standardization, and evaluation of equipment, materials, and procedures for the protection and management of national forests and grasslands is the mission of the Forest Service Technology…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cleveland
From the text ... 'The Advertising Council in partnership with the Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) launched a new series of wildfire prevention public service announcements (PSAs) in June 2008 featuring a modern Smokey Bear. Not only is his…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryon, Hamin
Salvage logging, the removal for profit of standing trees that have been damaged by extensive wildfires, has been quite controversial and subject to lawsuits that can delay the logging past the time in which the lumber is still useful. It has not been clear, however, whether the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCaffrey, Rhodes
In the United States, the increasing costs and negative impacts of wildfires are causing fire managers and policymakers to reexamine traditional approaches to fire management including whether mass evacuation of populations threatened by wildfire is always the most appropriate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Emmett
From the text ... 'How to improve the safety of wildland firefighters has always been a concern of Saskatchewan Fire Management and Forest Protection Branch (FMFP), the provincial agency responsible for the management of wildland fires. Even though it has never suffered a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Rideout-Hanzak, Johnson
We used a national household survey to examine knowledge, attitudes, and preferences pertaining to wildland fire. First, we present nationwide results and trends. Then, we examine opinions across region and race. Despite some regional variation, respondents are fairly consistent…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
From the text ... 'The most important facet of any talk on High Reliability Organizing is immediately establishing the rationale for why busy wildland fire managers, who are already overloaded with firefighting safety issues and decisionmaking responsibilities, should take the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saveland
From the text ... 'The wildland fire management community is not waiting for the heads of agencies to furnish places free from job safety and health hazards. Rather, this community is beginning to explore state-of-the-art safe and effective operations: organizing for high…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Sutcliffe, Barton, Dether
From the text ... 'Simplistically, a High Reliability Organization (HRO) is one that consistently produces the results in a dynamic, often unpredictable environment in which the consequences of errors are catastrophic. Accordingly, the error rate of an HRO is substantially lower…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Felling your backyard tree could be fatal - logging is one of the five most dangerous jobs in the world - and this broadcast discusses the cause of injuries and how to prevent them.
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Wildfire! Preventing Home Ignitions is a 19-minute video available from the Rocky Mountain Research Station. This program tells you how a wildfire can ignite your home. A 'home ignition zone,' the area that includes a home and its immediate surroundings, determines a home's…
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Butler
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) is a non-profit, professional association representing members of the global wildland fire community. The purpose of the association is to facilitate communication and leadership for the wildland fire community. Since 1997,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Wilderness medicine is the practice of providing medical attention when definitive care is further that 1 hour's travel time to provide medical treatment. In very remote locations, it can take days or weeks for rescuers to reach victims. The practice of wilderness medicine comes…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler
One of the most critical decisions made on wildland fires is the identification of suitable safety zones for firefighters during daily fire management operations. To be effective (timely, repeatable, and accurate), these decisions rely on good training and judgement, but also on…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kobziar, Rocca, Dicus, Hoffman, Sugihara, Thode, Varner, Morgan
Over the last 20 years, the duties of US fire professionals have become more complex and risk laden because of fuel load accumulation, climate change, and the increasing wildland-urban interface. Incorporation of fire use and ecological principles into fire management policies…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lipsett, Materna, Stone, Therriault, Blaisdell, Cook
Smoke rolls into town, blanketing the city, turning on streetlights, creating an eerie and choking fog. Switchboards light up as people look for answers. Citizens want to know what they should do to protect themselves. School officials want to know if outdoor events should be…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cova, Drews, Siebeneck, Musters
The decision of whether to evacuate or shelter-in-place (SIP) in a wildfire poses a significant challenge for emergency managers and residents in fire-prone areas. Events such as the 2007 Witch Creek Fire and 2008 Tea Fire in California highlight the option and viability of SIP…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
The fire destruction of hundreds of homes associated with wildfires has occurred in the United States for more than a century. From 1870 to 1920, massive wildfires occurred principally in the Lake States but also elsewhere. Wildfires such as Peshtigo (Wisconsin, 1871), Michigan…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Forthofer
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In July 1994, a low-intensity surface fire that had been burning on Storm King Mountain in Colorado suddenly intensified, shifting to the shrub canopy and rapidly advancing upslope. Caught off guard, 14 firefighters were trapped and lost their lives in the South Canyon Fire. A…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sharkey, Gaskill
This report updates 'Fitness and Work Capacity: Second Edition,' published in 1997. The 2009 edition includes new information on core training and nutrition. This report is intended to help forestry field workers and firefighters achieve health and fitness while improving their…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jensen
Researchers, politicians, and land managers have described a "fire crisis" in the United States during the late 20th and early 21st centuries: Fuels have built up over decades of fire suppression and combined with an ever-expanding urban-wildland interface to result in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Review and Update of the 1995 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (January 2001) remains sound and presents a single cohesive federal fire policy for the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture. However, some issues associated with implementation of this policy need…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weir
Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire, control invasive brush and weeds, improve livestock range and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gaughan, Cox-Ganser, Enright, Castellan, Wagner, Hobbs, Bledsoe, Siegel, Kreiss, Weissman
Objectives: To assess acute respiratory effects experienced by wildland firefighters. Methods: We studied two Interagency Hotshot Crews with questionnaires, spirometry, and measurement of albumin, eosinophilic cationic protein (ECP), and myeloperoxidase (MPO) as indicators of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES