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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Common denominators of fire behavior on tragedy and near-miss wildland fires

Fighting large wildland fires is often compared to a military operation. Each involves such things as: an organization with a general at the head, massive movements of personnel and equipment; tactical aerial support, and long periods of combat and stress until the enemy is…
Year: 1996
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Findings from the wildland firefighters human factors workshop: improving wildland firefighter performance under stressful, risky conditions: toward better decisions on the fireline and more resilient organizations: workshop sponsored by USDA Forest

Putnam
From the text...'It has become increasingly clear that wildland firefighters are experiencing collapses in decisionmaking and organizational structure when conditions on the fireline become life-threatening. Since 1990 wildland fire agencies have lost 23 people who might have…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed-fire safety

Staton
As a restorationist who has been conducting and supervising prescribed fires for more than 18 years, I have long been concerned about the casual way many restorationists approach this potentially dangerous aspect of restoration. I would like to suggest that restoration-oriented…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The role of fire in research natural areas in the northern rockies and Pacific Northwest

Greene, Evenden
From the Conclusions...'Attempts to exclude fire from wildland ecosystems in the Intermountain and Pacific Northwest Regions have had serious ecological impacts on at least 79 of the established and proposed Research Natural Areas. Numerous ecological and operational challenges…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Smoke considerations for using fire in maintaining healthy forest ecosystems

Ottmar, Schaaf, Alvarado
From the Introduction...'Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Can we restore the fire process? What awaits us if we don't?

Schmidt
This paper's title - "Can we restore the fire process? What awaits us if we don't?" - represents an ecologist's view of the world. I submit that this view is unrealistic. The first clause uses the term "restore" which implies reestablishing the fire process of the past. The…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS