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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
From the Text (p.13) ... 'At the conclusion of our survey of the ways in which human intelligence calls art to its aid in counterfeiting nature, we cannot but marvel at the fact that fire is necessary for almost every operation. It takes the sands of the Earth and melts them,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hanks
From the text ... 'Risk management is on center stage as an example of the shift in culture for fire and aviation managers.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Amorim
The validation of the Aerial Drop Model consisted of the comparison of computed ground patterns with experimental data from a set of real-scale drop tests using water and a wide range of fire retardant viscosities. Results were analyzed in terms of pattern length and area. A…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Amorim
The efficiency of the aerial drop of firefighting agents (water and retardants) is extremely dependent on pilot skills in dealing with complex atmospheric conditions, mostly because on-board systems for computer-assisted drops have not yet been used operationally. Hence,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bienen
From the text ... 'Evidence is mounting that a class of compounds known as brominated flame retardants (BFRs), used to help fireproof computer, televisions, vehicles, furniture, and other products, may not be harmless or inert when released into the environment. New research…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hesseln, Rideout
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rehm, Evans, McGrattan, Forney, Bouldin, Baker, Mell, Hostikka
This talk describes development of a physics-based mathematical and computational model to predict fire spread among structures and natural fuels (trees, shrubs and ground litter). This tool will be used to understand how fires spread in a community where both structures and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacGregor, González-Cabán
Of the thousands of fires that occur each year on publicly managed lands, the vast majority are suppressed by initial actions undertaken by the local administrative unit. However, on relatively rare occasions fires become exceptionally large and can result in enormous resource…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paragi, Smart, Worum, Haggstrom
Modern fire suppression has the potential to alter the natural distribution of forest cover types and age classes, which has consequences for resource management. A 21,000 ha prescribed burn to enhance wildlife habitat and secondarily reduce continuity of coniferous fuels was…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Querciagrossa-Sand, Stutler, Goldwater, Bennett
The National Weather Service (NWS) has been a major contributor to the success of the U.S. Wildfire Program for over 67 years. During that time, Incident Meteorologists, (IMET's) have delivered predictive services that have allowed Incident Managers to fight fires aggressively…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmidt, Prins
Since August of 2000 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) have been used to detect and monitor biomass burning in the Western Hemisphere on a half-hourly basis using the Wildfire Automated Biomass…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feltz, Moreau, Prins, Claid-Cook, Brown
Over the past 15 years meteorological satellites have been increasingly used for land surface applications, including fire detection and monitoring. Several automated algorithms now provide satellite derived fire products in near real time for hazards applications and to better…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett
Fire-blocking gel, a new weapon in the war on wildfires, is being hailed by firefighters, property owners, scientists and government officials as one of the most important developments in fire fighting history. This new technology enables professional firefighters as well as…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haggstrom
Human settlement in the fire-prone boreal forest of interior Alaska creates an interesting paradox: wildland fires are needed to protect against fire, and fire suppression is needed to cost-effectively manage lands and resources in the urban interface. Experience has shown that…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hubbard
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parks
From the text ... 'Since the 1950s the US Forest Service (USFS) has relied on fire-retardant chemicals as one method of battling wildland blazes, primarily in the American West. ...In 2004, the Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics (FSEEE; Eugene, OR) sued the USFS…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel, Mutch
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bova, Dickinson
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ruby, Leadbetter, Armstrong, Gaskill
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
This proceedings contains articles, posters, and abstracts of presentations from the second Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference held 27-29 April 2010 in San Antonio, Texas. The conference covered the social issues at the root of wildland fire management's most serious…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greulich
Airtankers are widely employed in wildland fire control operations. This paper presents a spreadsheet procedure for modeling airtanker initial-attack performance within a protection region. Easily written and modified, this spreadsheet-based model provides the user with…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kremens, Faulring, Gallagher, Seema, Vodacek
An Autonomous Fire Detector (AFD) is a miniature electronic package combining position location capability [using the Global Positioning System (GPS)], communications (packet or voice-synthesized radio), and fire detection capability (thermal, gas, smoke detector) into an…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hoffman
Danger trees present a safety concern for anyone working on or visiting public lands. Between 2001 and 2009, eight wildland firefighters were killed in danger tree accidents. Many injuries and near-misses involving Forest Service employees, contractors, and forest visitors…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES