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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Prudhomme, Steinberg
An estimated 8.8 million U.S. students in grades six through 12 reside in wildland/urban interface areas. Cathy Prudhomme and Michele Steinberg with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) describe innovative efforts to reinforce the importance of wildfire awareness and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arsenault
Training for medical situations is imperative for wildland firefighters. What are your plans to handle bleeding control, remote crash-rescue situations and air-medical support?
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman
With mapping tablets, web-enabled smartphones, satellite uplinks and real-time situational awareness tools, the future of fire intelligence is on the firelines now.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clay
The more we work firelines and incidents together, the more we'll be able to sense when to 'check in' and offer 'Stress First Aid,' firefighter-to-firefighter.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Darran
For this fire season and beyond, we need to resolve to change our air tanker policies.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mutch
For the 2012 fire season, a USFS 'fire ban' directive raised concerns that a return to a 'suppression'-only response to fire would undermine long-term fire management strategies and policies. Bob Mutch responds with a call for communicating our fire expertise.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bailey
This article discusses the effects and extent to which the WUI is impacted by wildfires.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ball
The Student Conservation Association, in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service and other conservation organizations, has developed the Veteran Fire Corps program to provide technical training and field experience to veterans.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire firefighting has been shaped and re-shaped by tragedy fires. We've collected a range of initial responses by writers who apply the losses of Yarnell Hill to make the fireline safer for the next crews.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Groot, Flannigan, Stocks
Wildland fire regimes are primarily driven by climate/weather, fuels and people. All of these factors are dynamic and their variable interactions create a mosaic of fire regimes around the world. Climate change will have a substantial impact on future fire regimes in many global…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the federal and state levels in the United States as well as agencies in the international community. The topics discussed at the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Fuel consumption specifies the amount of vegetative biomass consumed during wildland fire. It is a two-stage process of pyrolysis and combustion that occurs simultaneously and at different rates depending on the characteristics and condition of the fuel, weather, topography, and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Maynard, McAllister, Grob
Experiments were conducted to examine the potential for rifle bullets to ignite organic matter after impacting a hard surface. The tests were performed using a variety of common cartridges (7.62x51, 7.62x39, 7.62x54R, and 5.56x45) and bullet materials (steel core, lead core,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, McBride
In an effort to improve organizational outcomes, including safety, in wildland fire management, researchers and practitioners have turned to a domain of research on organizational performance known as High Reliability Organizing (HRO). The HRO paradigm emerged in the late 1980s…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Thompson, Calkin
Wildfires can result in significant, long-lasting impacts to ecological, social, and economic systems. It is necessary, therefore, to identify and understand the risks posed by wildland fire, and to develop cost-effective mitigation strategies accordingly. This report presents a…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz, Vaillant, Peterson
Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) project 09-S-03-1 was undertaken in response to JFSP Project Announcement No. FA-RFA09-0002 with respect to a synthesis on extreme fire behavior or more specifically a review and analysis of the literature dealing with certain features of crown…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliver
As forest carbon offset projects become more popular, professional foresters are providing their expertise to support them. But when several members of the Society of American Foresters questioned the science and assumptions used to design the projects, the organization decided…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
First order fire effects are those that concern the direct or indirect or immediate consequences of fire. First order fire effects form an important basis for prediction secondary effects such as tree regeneration plant succession, and changes in site productivity, but these…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan, Knapp, Varner
Whether ignited by lightning or by Native Americans, fire once shaped many North American ecosystems. Euro-American settlement and 20th-century fire suppression practices drastically altered historic fire regimes, leading to excessive fuel accumulation and uncharacteristically…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Koch, Smith, Coulston
Virtually all U.S. forests experience droughts, although the intensity and frequency of the droughts vary widely between, as well as, within forest ecosystems (Hanson and Weltzin 2000). Generally, forests throughout the Western United States are subject to annual seasonal…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Wildland fire represents an important ecological mechanism in many forest ecosystems. It shapes the distributions of species, maintains the structure and function of fire-prone communities, and is a significant evolutionary force (Bond and Keeley 2005). At the same time, fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Baxter, Dakin
A field study of fire crews using escape routes provides insights into a key element of firefighter safety.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, Connot, Peterson, Martin
The LANDFIRE Program provides comprehensive vegetation and fuel datasets for the entire United States. As with many large-scale ecological datasets, vegetation and landscape conditions must be updated periodically to account for disturbances, growth, and natural succession. The…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Summer 2012 saw records fall for intensity of drought and number, size, and cost of wildfires in the Central and Western United States, and the climate forecast calls for more of the same in the near and distant future. When wildfire breaks out, emergency responders decide their…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS