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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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An emerging fire management issue in Canada: forest-fire fuels

Alexander
Excpert: "A preliminary study of the issue of managing fuels on the boreal fire landscape suggests that it's just as "daunting" a task in the boreal forest as it is in dry forest type ecosystems of southern British Columbia. However, not all areas are equally at risk.…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire growth using minimum travel time methods

Finney
Fire-growth modeling on complex landscapes can be approached as a search for the minimum time for fire to travel among nodes in a two-dimensional network. The paths producing minimum travel time between nodes are then interpolated to reveal the fire perimeter positions at an…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Mixmaster exposure to dust during mixing of wildland fire retardant chemicals

Spear, Cannell
A study was performed at two air tanker/retardant bases to determine the mixmaster?s exposure to dust derived from mixing dry fire retardant compounds. Personal sampling for both inhalable and respirable dust was conducted while the mixmaster mixed fire retardant compounds to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Focus on ... consulting foresters: making your home firewise: tips for homeowners

The site your home is on is critical to its fire safety. Nine tips help homeowners ensure that their home is situated and maintained in a way that protects it from the risk of wildfire.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The fallacy of passive management: managing for firesafe forest reserves

Agee
The hard lesson that we should take away from the last decade of fire management in drier forests is that a choice to do nothing is a choice of action, not always with a desirable outcome.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Development of Course Scale Spatial Data for Wildland Fire and Fuels Management

Hardy, Burgan, Ohlen, Saveland
To provide 'first draft' basic spatial data layers, descriptive statistics, and documentation of the components listed above to enable specific risk analyses by subject matter experts, in National fuels treatment program planning, and for RPA direction.
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Assessing Values at Risk in the United States from Wildland Fire

Rideout
This project will culminate in a user-friendly value at risk (VAR) decision support system (DSS) for fire managers and planners. By assimilating and analyzing the available literature on fire effects as they relate to VARs, such information will be catalogued into a relational…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Mitigating the risk of wildfire in the wildland urban interface, Anchorage, Alaska, USA

York, Rodman, See, Rose, Barnwell
In 2001, the US Forest Service declared Anchorage, Alaska (USA), an urban wildland interface community at high risk from wildfire. Anchorage is approximately 1,251,620 acres in size and home to half (265,000) of the state's population. The majority of residents live within the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

A collaborative approach for reducing wildland fire risks to communities and the environment 10-year comprehensive strategy: implementation plan

The four goals of the 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy are: 1. Improve Fire Prevention and Suppression, 2. Reduce Hazardous Fuels, 3. Restore Fire-Adapted Ecosystems, 4. Promote Community Assistance. Its three guiding principles are: 1. Priority setting that emphasizes the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Development of coarse-scale spatial data for wildland fire and fuel management

Schmidt, Menakis, Hardy, Hann, Bunnell
We produced seven coarse-scale, 1-km2 resolution, spatial data layers for the conterminous United States to support national-level fire planning and risk assessments. Four of these layers were developed to evaluate ecological conditions and risk to ecosystem components:…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

A changing landscape in the wildland-urban interface: seasonal and permanent residents' adoption and approval of fuel mitigation programs

Cindrity, Vogt
Description not entered.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Strategies for controlling wildfire

Hof, Bevers
Description not entered.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Perspectives on carbon emissions from Canadian forest fires

Amiro, Flannigan, Stocks, Wotton
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An examination of the sensitivity of numerically simulated wildfires to low-level atmospheric stability and moisture, and the consequences for the Haines Index

Jenkins
The Haines Index, an operational fire-weather index introduced in 1988 and based on the observed stability and moisture content of the near-surface atmosphere, has been a useful indicator of the potential for high-risk fires in low wind conditions and flat terrain. The Haines…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS