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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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de Groot, Goldammer, Keenan, Brady, Lynham, Justice, Csiszar, O'Loughlin
Wildland fires burn several hundred million hectares of vegetation every year, and increased fire activity has been reported in many global regions. Many of these fires have had serious negative impacts on human safety, health, regional economies, global climate change, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
From the text ... 'WFU [wildland fire use] is the management of naturally ignited wildland fires to protect, maintain, and enhance resources in predefined areas outlined in fire management plans.' © 2007 by the Association for Fire Ecology.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wuerthner
From the Introduction (p.xv) ... 'White this book is about fire policy and fire ecology, it is also a discussion of a much larger philosophical debate over the ultimate role and influence humans should have on natural landscapes.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viegas
From the text ... ''Eruptive fire behavior can be modeled and predicted mathematically.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prestemon, Wear, Stewart, Holmes
Administrative planning rules and legal challenges can have significant economic impacts on timber salvage programs on public lands. This paper examines the costs of the delay in salvage caused by planning rules and the costs associated with the volume reductions forced by legal…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sexton
From the text ... 'Line officer support and active involvement was identified as the most important common denominator of the high-performance prescribed fire programs.... This personnel interchange between units not only helps accomplish agency targets, but it enhances the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zimmerman, Lasko
From the text ... 'Early prescribed natural fire efforts were tacitly supported, limited in extent, and carried out under close scrutiny.... Wildland fire use has moved beyond the confines of remote, inaccessible areas. It is expanding across an increasing variety of land use…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Trent, Cisneros
From the text ... 'Before lighting a prescribed fire on the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests, fire managers rely on Tom Robison to check air quality in several of the nearby small towns. Using data from a network of real-time smoke monitors, Robison helps fire managers…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doolin, Sitar
From the text ... 'Low-power wireless sensor technology can be successfully deployed in wildland fires to collect local environmental conditions such as temperature, relative humidity, and barometric pressure.... Testing the system required collaboration with numerous…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Livingston
From the text ... 'As fire season progresses and multiple assignments and traveling begin to take their physical toll, so do the physical and mental demands on our fire personnel.... Originally developed in 1984, 'Fireline Fitness,' could be the solution. This novel approach to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keller
From the text ... ''Fireline Fitness' is an exciting, innovative, and novel approach to physical health and conditioning for wildland firefighters.... By promoting a healthy wildland fire workforce, the Fireline Fitness program benefits the agency as well as the individual.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chamberlin
From the text ... 'Career wildland firefighters usually pass through a portal of sorts: a 'safety awareness portal' that gives them new perspectives, altering their reality.... Transiting the portal is like a wakeup call.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keller
From the text ... ''A lesson is truly learned when we modify our behavior to reflect what we now know.' -- Paula Nasiatka, Center Manager, Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center. 'The Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center enables wildland fire professionals to improve their…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kirkendall
From the text ... 'The need for this effort and resulting foundational doctrine could not be more timely.... To allow our efforts and the product to languish would be a fatal flaw in the process.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Your identity is based on your contribution -- not your rank. 'When you get this much intelligence and passion in a room -- good things happen.' -- Faye Fentiman, management consultant-facilitator.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire suppression duties today are performed in a political, cultural, and physical environment that is more challenging than ever before.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hollenshead
From the text ... 'Without clearly articulated doctrinal principles in wildland fire suppression, the agency has no consistent basis for its actions or responses.... The current risk to the agency is that improper behaviors, poor judgment, or the lack of critical decisionmaking…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keller
From the text ... 'This is the beginning of a new culture.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Apicello
From the text ... 'Although the overall theme of this issue of Fire Management Today is 'safety,' for the most part, our authors are really addressing the collective consequences and outcomes that have emerged as safety issues during the last dozen fire season....It is…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Thomas
From the text ... 'The use of fire by humans has a long and storied history, as has been chronicled globally by noted fire historian Stephen Pyne.... A prescribed fire can, if properly executed, accomplish many beneficial purposes.... There are lots of things to potentially…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nazzaro
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Alexander
Fire Management Today and its predecessors collectively now have a 70-year record of publishing on all aspects of wildland fire, including firefighter safety. The authors have served as coordinators and/or contributors for five special issues dealing with the Dude Fire Staff…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dennis
Fire is capricious. It can find the weak link in your home's fire protection scheme and gain the upper hand because of a small, overlooked or seemingly inconsequential factor. While you may not be able to accomplish all measures below (and there are no guarantees), each will…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Talberth, Berrens, McKee, Jones
When confronted by catastrophic wildfire risk, homeowners simultaneously allocate resources between insurance and averting activities. Expected utility theory suggests that complete insurance coverage precludes investment in averting activities. However, when potential losses…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Laband, González-Cabán, Hussain
Using the database developed by the General Accounting Office on proposed fuels reduction actions on federal lands in 2001 and 2002, we conduct probit regression analysis to identify factors that significantly affect the likelihood of administrative appeal. The likelihood of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS