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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Organizational learning contributes to guidance for managing wildland fires for multiple objectives

Zimmerman, Sexton
From the text ... 'Managing wildland fire to achieve land and resource management goals continues to be riddled with misperceptions and misinformation, which have limited both programmatic growth and overall effectiveness. As more credibility has been placed on identifying best…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

From another perspective - the 10s, 18s, and fire doctrine

Sutton
From the text ... 'The problem with relying too much on memorization of rules to keep us safe is that we are presupposing that a firefighter's mind will retrieve the appropriate piece of memorized information for any situation, even under stress, and make it available just when…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The 10 Standard Firefighting Orders and 18 Watch Out Situations: we don't bend them, we don't break them...we don't know them

Scholz
From the text ... 'Most of us don't know the 10 standard firefighting orders and 18 watch out situations, the '10 & 18,' by heart. Judging by our fatality reports and close calls, it shows.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hired for fire: wildland fire management projects putting people to work

Carr
From the text ... 'More than half the initial projects proposed for the Forest Service's billion dollars of funding through the ARRA [American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009] were for wildland fire management.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

After-action rebiews -- who conducts them?

Black, Sutcliffe, Barton
From the text ... 'AARs [After-Action Review] typically ask four questions regarding fire-response operations: what did we set out to do; what actually happened; why is there a difference between the first two; and what should we continue, and what should we change?'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The potential for restoring fire-adapted ecosystems: exploring opportunities to expand the use of wildfire as a natural change agent

Aplet, Wilmer
From the text ... 'Policymakers and forestry experts recognize that, after a century of fire suppression, there is a crisis in forest health: fire-dependent ecosystems starved of regular fire cycles now have unhealthy fuel loads and experience unnaturally large wildfires.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The wildland-urban interface fire problem - current approaches and research needs

Mell, Manzello, Maranghides, Butry, Rehm
Wildfires that spread into wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities present significant challenges on several fronts. In the United States, the WUI accounts for a significant portion of wildland fire suppression and wildland fuel treatment costs. Methods to reduce structure…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Microhabitat selection of bark-foraging birds in response to Fire and Fire Surrogate treatments

Farris, Zack, Amacher, Pierson
We examined the short-term response of the bark-foraging bird community to mechanical thinning, prescribed fire, and thinning/prescribed fire combination treatments designed to reduce fuel loads at study sites throughout the continental United States as part of the national Fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Modeling containment of large wildfires using generalized linear mixed-model analysis

Finney, Grenfell, McHugh
Billions of dollars are spent annually in the United States to contain large wildland fires, but the factors contributing to suppression success remain poorly understood. We used a regression model (generalized linear mixed-model) to model containment probability of individual…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Progress towards and barriers to implementation of a risk framework for US federal wildland fire policy and decision making

Calkin, Finney, Ager, Thompson, Gebert
In this paper we review progress towards the implementation of a risk management framework for US federal wildland fire policy and operations. We first describe new developments in wildfire simulation technology that catalyzed the development of risk-based decision support…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Inducing private wildfire risk mitigation: experimental investigation of measures on adjacent public lands

Prante, Little, Jones, McKee, Berrens
Increasing private wildfire risk mitigation is an important part of the larger forest restoration policy challenge. Data from an economic experiment are used to evaluate the effectiveness of providing fuel reductions on public land adjacent to private land to induce private…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

How accurate is your kestrel®?

White
From the text ... 'For suppression and prescribed fire operations, accurate RH information can be critical.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Common denominators of human behavior on tragedy fires

Sutton
From the text ... 'While many individuals are involved in wildland firefighting operations, we don't really know much about how the human mind works when on the fireline. Which actions are intentional or conscious, and which actions are automatic or unconscious? How much of what…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Wildland Fire Decision Support System: integrating science, technology, and fire management

Pence, Zimmerman
From the text ... 'Federal agency policy requires documentation and analysis of all wildland fire response decisions. In the past, planning and decision documentation for fires were completed using multiple unconnected processes, yielding many limitations. In response,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Just Culture part 1: effective accountability for principle-centered management

Holdsambeck
From the text ... 'How managers and supervisors react to an accident can either move the organization toward or away from a learning culture. In this regard, a 'Just Culture' cultivates a learning culture. Traditionally, we have approached accidents the same way as we look at…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Just Culture part 2: understanding why accidents happen

Holdsambeck
From the text ... 'A Just Culture asserts that all human factors must be acknowledged and should be open for fair, honest analysis and criticism. If our employees involved in an accident feel that intentional unnecessary risk-taking was acceptable, it may be much more important…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Implementing management systems for aviation safety

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

Some new basics of fire behavior

Coen
From the text ... '... Understanding the interplay of factors -- particularly with the most variable one: weather -- can help explain and anticipate fire phenomena, a necessary part of managing an evolving fire situation. Changing our perspective from seeing just the fire to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Remote sensing and geospatial support to burned area emergency response teams

Clark, McKinley
From the text ... 'One of the BAER [Burned Area Emergency Response] team's first tasks is to develop a soil burn severity map that highlights the areas of low, moderate, and high burn severity within a wildfire perimeter.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Moving toward a coherent approach to safety and risk management

Apicello
From the text ... 'Fire suppression doctrine recognizes that, where there is increased empowerment, there is also increased responsibility and accountability.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Habitat patterns in forested landscapes: management practices and the uncertainty associated with natural disturbances

Klenner, Kurz, Beukema
We present the results of a study to examine the effects of management actions and natural disturbances in influencing the evolution of habitat patterns on forested lands. TELSA, a spatially explicit vegetation succession model with the ability to apply user-defined management…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Preparing tomorrow's fire professionals: integration of education, training, and experience through science-management partnerships

Wells
From the test ... 'In this issue of Fire Science Digest, we explore the career and preparation challenges faced by forest and rangeland fire professionsls, both new and seasoned. As the job description grows moe complex, a well-rounded background in current and emerging areas of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Major decline in fires in coniferous forests -- reconstructing the phenomenon and seeking for the cause

Wallenius
Steep decline in forest fires about a century ago occurred in coniferous forests over large areas in North America and Fennoscandia. This poorly understood phenomenon has been explained by different factors in different regions. The objective of this study is to evaluate the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Uncertainty and risk in wildland fire management: a review

Thompson, Calkin
Wildland fire management is subject to manifold sources of uncertainty. Beyond the unpredictability of wildfire behavior, uncertainty stems from inaccurate/missing data, limited resource value measures to guide prioritization across fires and resources at risk, and an incomplete…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Seed release in serotinous lodgepole pine forests after mountain pine beetle outbreak

Teste, Lieffers, Landhausser
There are concerns that large-scale stand mortality due to mountain pine beetle (MPB) could greatly reduce natural regeneration of serotinous Rocky Mountain (RM) lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) because the closed cones are held in place without the fire cue for…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS