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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
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Jenkins
From the text ... 'The United States and Mexico agreed to identify and protect special radio frequencies for wildland firefighters in border areas.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paz
From the text ... 'Providing nationwide leadership in the development, testing, analysis, standardization, and evaluation of equipment, materials, and procedures for the protection and management of national forests and grasslands is the mission of the Forest Service Technology…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frey
From the text ... 'Having the right equipment for firefighting is not only necessary -- it's essential. Since 1954, the Forest Service has helped State agencies acquire usable, surplus equipment through the Federal Excess Personal Property (FEPP) Program to meet their…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferranti
From the text ... 'The year was 1915 and the forest Service's brief dalliance with Civil War blinkers and sunlight was a dismal failure (Coats 1984). Frustrated foresters needed to improve their ability to communicate, but radio technology would not be ready for the fireline for…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Finney, Fischetti
This article examines the growing number of wildfires in the United States. Forest fires are being fueled by deadwood and debris that have been allowed to accumulate by the caretakers of the land. The use of computer modeling is aiding in the prediction of where fires will occur…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the Text (p.13) ... 'At the conclusion of our survey of the ways in which human intelligence calls art to its aid in counterfeiting nature, we cannot but marvel at the fact that fire is necessary for almost every operation. It takes the sands of the Earth and melts them,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frederick
From the text ... 'Given our fuels and topography, we rely a lot on engines, helicopters, and bulldozers to fight fire in the Bureau of Land Management.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
Bienen
From the text ... 'Evidence is mounting that a class of compounds known as brominated flame retardants (BFRs), used to help fireproof computer, televisions, vehicles, furniture, and other products, may not be harmless or inert when released into the environment. New research…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schaitberger
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hesseln, Rideout
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rehm, Evans, McGrattan, Forney, Bouldin, Baker, Mell, Hostikka
This talk describes development of a physics-based mathematical and computational model to predict fire spread among structures and natural fuels (trees, shrubs and ground litter). This tool will be used to understand how fires spread in a community where both structures and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacGregor, González-Cabán
Of the thousands of fires that occur each year on publicly managed lands, the vast majority are suppressed by initial actions undertaken by the local administrative unit. However, on relatively rare occasions fires become exceptionally large and can result in enormous resource…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paragi, Smart, Worum, Haggstrom
Modern fire suppression has the potential to alter the natural distribution of forest cover types and age classes, which has consequences for resource management. A 21,000 ha prescribed burn to enhance wildlife habitat and secondarily reduce continuity of coniferous fuels was…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Querciagrossa-Sand, Stutler, Goldwater, Bennett
The National Weather Service (NWS) has been a major contributor to the success of the U.S. Wildfire Program for over 67 years. During that time, Incident Meteorologists, (IMET's) have delivered predictive services that have allowed Incident Managers to fight fires aggressively…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmidt, Prins
Since August of 2000 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) have been used to detect and monitor biomass burning in the Western Hemisphere on a half-hourly basis using the Wildfire Automated Biomass…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feltz, Moreau, Prins, Claid-Cook, Brown
Over the past 15 years meteorological satellites have been increasingly used for land surface applications, including fire detection and monitoring. Several automated algorithms now provide satellite derived fire products in near real time for hazards applications and to better…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett
Fire-blocking gel, a new weapon in the war on wildfires, is being hailed by firefighters, property owners, scientists and government officials as one of the most important developments in fire fighting history. This new technology enables professional firefighters as well as…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haggstrom
Human settlement in the fire-prone boreal forest of interior Alaska creates an interesting paradox: wildland fires are needed to protect against fire, and fire suppression is needed to cost-effectively manage lands and resources in the urban interface. Experience has shown that…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beighley
From the text ... 'In order to assure safe fireline operations, firefighters need processes to evaluate fireline safety that are measurable, consistent, and transferable.... There should never be any uncertainty about the location of safety zones and excape routes, the adequacy…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gleason
From the text ... 'The LCES system approach to fireline safety is an outgrowth of my analysis of fatalities and near-misses for over 20 years of active fireline suppression duties. LCES simply refocuses on the essential elements of the standard Fire Orders. Its use should be…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis, Chandler
From the text ... 'Vortex turbulence consists of a pair of miniature whirlwinds trailing from the wingtips of any aircraft in flight.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS