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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
From the text ... 'This article discusses factors that are critical to both firefighters and fire managers in ensuring a safe and productive workforce. First, it discusses such items as the work environment, the firefighter workforce, physical fitness, nutrition, work/rest…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The following table shows how safety violations identified by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) during its investigation of the Thirtymile Fire accident correspond to action items called for under the USDA Forest Service's Thirtymile…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'With few exceptions, transition fires are our tragedy fires, the fires where most of our entrapments and deployments occur.... The Ten Standard Fire Orders are not an obstacle to getting the job done; instead, they are the way to get the job done right.... On…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rains, Hubbard
From the text ... 'Our Nation faced the tremendous challenge of reducing the growing risk to lives, property, and natural resources from uncharacteristically severe wildland fires in the W-UI. No single agency is capable of rising to the challenge alone. The only feasible…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Federal, state, tribal and local governments are making unprecedented efforts to reduce the buildup of fuels and restore forests and rangelands to healthy conditions. Yet, needless red tape and lawsuits delay effective implementation of forest health projects…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Logan, Stocks, Wotton, Amiro, Todd
In this study we use historical relationships between weather, the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System components and ecozone area burned in Canada on a monthly basis in tandem with output from GCMs from the Canadian Climate Centre and the United Kingdom Hadley Centre to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Forest fires are one of the major threats to the environment, to socio-economic activity and also to human life. Throughout history several generations have attempted to understand the role played by fire in the forest and to manage it. The scientific community with its…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Driessen
Describes the role played by crew cohesion in the deaths of firefighters in three firefighting tragedies: the Mann Gulch Fire, the South Canyon Fire, and the Thirtymile Fire. Two types of cohesion are involved, the cohesion within a crew (intracrew cohesion) and the cohesion…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rains
This is a key note presentation by Michael Rains, presented at the Fire and Aquatic Ecosystem Workshop, held April 22-24, 2002 in Boise, Idaho. This presentation outlines the fundamental premise, long-term goals, key points, current and proposed funding, progress, and challenges…
Year: 2002
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Williams
From the text ... 'Wildland fire is a high-risk, high-consequence business. It is influenced by high social expectations and a low political tolerance for failure. Our environment is surrounded by uncertainty and danger. It is controlled more and more by our ability to measure,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blakeslee
Forests of the W-UI exist in a people-dominated landscape. As such, their existence and character are highly sculpted by the values, perceptions, and motivations of people. They exist in spatial and temporal dimensions similar in part but often dissimilar from those experienced…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fastabend
From the text ... 'The Kenai Peninsula Borough and cooperating agencies developed and implemented an integrated Spruce Bark Beetle Mitigation Program.'
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey
From the text ... 'Severe fire seasons and evolving insights into land and resource management have generated a series of recent initiatives for wildland firemanagement.'
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Spear, Cannell
A study was performed at two air tanker/retardant bases to determine the mixmaster?s exposure to dust derived from mixing dry fire retardant compounds. Personal sampling for both inhalable and respirable dust was conducted while the mixmaster mixed fire retardant compounds to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The site your home is on is critical to its fire safety. Nine tips help homeowners ensure that their home is situated and maintained in a way that protects it from the risk of wildfire.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Forthofer
How close is too close when fighting a forest fire? Wind, temperature and "real" heat energy are all factors that should be considered when determining the safety zone.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall, Hull, Johnson, McKinney, Scott
In response to the 2002 fire season's fatal aircraft accidents, the USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM) jointly established an independent, five-member Blue Ribbon Commission (the panel - Appendix A) to identify essential information for planning a safe…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Current research on severe fire interactions with the atmosphere focuses largely on examination of correlations between fire growth and various atmospheric properties, and on the development of indices based on these correlations. The author proposes that progress requires…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schmidt, Menakis, Hardy, Hann, Bunnell
We produced seven coarse-scale, 1-km2 resolution, spatial data layers for the conterminous United States to support national-level fire planning and risk assessments. Four of these layers were developed to evaluate ecological conditions and risk to ecosystem components:…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Fogarty
The grassland fire behaviour pocket card recently developed for use by wildland and rural firefighters in Canada and New Zealand is reviewed. The pocket card offers a practical field guide for quickly estimating the near worst case fire behaviour potential in grasslands. At the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Ottmar, Peterson, Core
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on air quality can assist land, fire, and air resource managers with fire and smoke planning, and their efforts to explain to others the science behind fire-related program policies and practices to improve air quality.…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS