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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 1 - 25 of 39
Neznek
From the text...'On December 3, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, legislation designed to expedite hazardous fuel reduction projects and improve forest health conditions in the nation's forests. Several provisions of this legislation alter…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Teich, Vaughn, Cortner
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) provided fire research scientists an outdoor laboratory to test a theoretical, physical-based fire model and to conduct a wide variety of concurrent experiments. The crown fire experiments, located 40 km northeast of Fort…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bosworth
From the text ... 'A policy of allowing all fires to burn would be just as flawed as the old policy of putting them all out. ...Our policy is to use fire where we can and suppress fire where we must.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
A consensus history of fire in the United States has emerged over the past decade. It correctly identifies fire suppression's liabilities, while probably over‐enthusing about fire‐science capabilities. What it lacks, however, is a context of the subject's larger, braided…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carroll, Kumagai, Daniels, Bliss, Edwards
Fire officials are dismayed when victims of wildfire blame fire fighters and others responsible for fire management for damage resulting from uncontrolled fires. This is in spite of the fact that wildfire damage is a consequence of dynamic interactions among natural factors (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lahm
Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lahm
Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
First in a three-part video series describing the work and cutting edge risk management tools developed by the Rocky Mountain Research Station Wildfire Risk Management Science Team. The Team works with National Forests and other fire managers to plan ahead of the fire season.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Lee
A knowledge broker is an organization or individual that translates and disseminates esearch findings to working professionals (Konijnendijk 2004). Knowledge brokers participate in a variety of activities, including translating, spreading and commissioning research, and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kramer, Frederick
The Wildland Urban Interface or WUI is used throughout the fire world as a designation for where to focus pre-fire risk mitigation and active fire tactics. The WUI is composed of interface WUI, where buildings and vegetation meet, and intermix WUI, where they intermingle. WUI…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brinkman
Presented by Todd Brinkman with content from Tom Paragi. From the 2018 Bonanza Creek LTER symposium, April 6, 2018.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
FireWorks provides students with interactive, hands-on materials to study wildland fire. It is highly interdisciplinary and students learn about properties of matter, chemical and physical processes, ecosystem fluctuations and cycles, habitat and survival, and human interactions…
Year: 2018
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Fawcett, Clontz
'Learn and Burn' workshops are an excellent way for private landowners and others to gain hands-on burning experience and knowledge from expert mentors. This webinar will provide some lessons learned from coordinating these events, and tips to putting one on in the future.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Christiansen
The topic of collaboration across boundaries is fitting for me and for the Forest Service because our national priorities revolve around just that-collaboration across boundaries-especially when it comes to wildland fire. We are committed to improving the conditions of the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Medley-Daniel
For the last 100 years, fire suppression policies have largely kept fire from playing its natural role. Removing fire from ecosystems that depend on it to stay healthy, coupled with more people building houses in flammable natural areas, has created a costly and dangerous…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leschak
The wildfire landscape is like a patchwork quilt. Each piece represents a stakeholder: private timber producers; State lands; rural homes and farms; communities; Tribes, pueblos, or reservations; refuges; Federal lands and watersheds; and community parks. And all of those…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joy
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rohde
I recently completed a study providing insight into critical decisions by command officers on some of California's most notorious wildfires in the wildland/urban interface (WUI). My study focused on the first several hours of response to the fires, a period of time when…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
A report highlighting the progress and accomplishments of Forest Service Research and Development under the National Fire Plan in fiscal year 2003. It describes research findings, tool developments, technology transfer, and research highlights in four key areas: firefighting,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zupko, Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
This webinar addresses additional issues and questions that arose during the original webinar, “Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges." Moderator: Mike Zupko, Executive Director, Wildland Fire Leadership Council. Panelists: Pete Lahm, Smoke Manager, U.S.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Remenick
Fire regimes are needed for healthy forest ecosystems, but citizens who live parallel to public forests do not always understand or favour the mechanisms land managers use for fire prevention and preparation. One way that land managers and citizens may share concerns and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Minor, Boyce
Wildfire prevention advertisements featuring Smokey Bear represent the longest-standing and most successful government advertising and branding campaign in U.S. history. As the public face of U.S. fire control policy, Smokey Bear uses mass media to influence the attitudes and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winter, Vogt, McCaffrey
Surveys of homeowners in three different ecosystems with varying fuels management approaches reveal that homeowners' trust in natural resource agencies is significantly associated with perceived risks and benefits and with perceived agency competence. A weaker association…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS