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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lasko
From the text: 'In summary, a number of command and control alternatives are available for use with aerial ignition systems. Due to the variety of situations encountered in the field, the burn boss must select the alternative that matches the situation and will provide for a…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell
From the Summary: 'There are several reasons to use helitorch ignition instead of hand ignition. Three primary reasons are safety of ground ignition personnel, cost effectiveness, and ability to meet resource objectives.'
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lafferty
From the Introduction: 'In British Columbia several aerial ignition systems are used: the gas/diesel/JP-4 drip torch, the gelled gasoline helitorch, and the aerial ignition device (AID). This paper deals mainly with the experiences of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. (MB) and Forest…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter
From the Conclusions ... 'The coordination of the helitorch operations, such as support services, unit ignition procedures, and timing, is of a critical nature. It is imperative that a smooth flow of effort be immediately established and maintained throughout a burn. Oversights…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lionberger
From the Introduction: 'Aerial ignition, as a part of prescribed fire and wildfire management, is rapidly growing in popularity. Since the early 1970's when development began, many improvements have been made by both the private sector and government agencies. The 'flying drip…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
The magnitude of prescribed fire use has greatly increased in the past 10 years. With this expanded use of fire came a need for aerial ignition devices and techniques. This paper reports the preliminary findings of a nationwide survey of active aerial ignition prfactitioners.…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the Final Remarks...'Designing fire prescriptions to meet today's demand for skill and professionalism requires an orderly planning process. At the start of this process, fire objectives must be derived from land managment objectives and specifically stated in terms of what…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman
From the Introduction ... ' As prescribed fire became more widely understood and applied in the U.S. in the decades following World War II, forest managers routinely used aircraft for various purposes in prescribed fire operations. In the U.S., this most often was the helicopter…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the document ... 'Premo Plastics Engineering Ltd., the manufacturers of the PFRC Aerial ignition Device MKII have made several significant modifications resulting in the Premo MKIII Aerial Ignition System. Development has been oriented towards an automated hopper feed…
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel, Mutch
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lotan
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quintilio, Bisgrove, Van
This paper reviews the unique aerial ignition device developed originally in Australia and the chronological work in Canada that eventually produced the Aerial Ignition Device and the Helitorch. It is of interest to note that the project has gone full circle in that Australia…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Canadian/United States cooperative mass fire behavior and atmospheric environmental impact study
Over the past four years scientists have cooperatively monitored fire behavior and smoke chemistry, on a number of large prescribed fires in the Province of Ontario. Primary cooperating agencies include Forestry Canada, the United States Forest Service, the National Aeronautics…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White, Fenton
The western national parks managed by the Canadian Parks Service (CPS) are dominated by fire dependent forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and trembling aspen. Values at risk and high-intensity fire regimes limit the acceptability of unscheduled (lightning and unplanned man)…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey
Alaska Center for Unmanned Aerial Systems Integration (ACUASI) Deputy Director Ro Bailey gave a presentation on the University of Alaska's history and capabilities with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to the Interagency Dispatchers meeting March 26, 2014 at the North Pole Hotel…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Plucinski, Pastor
Aircraft are often used to drop suppressants and retardants to assist wildfire containment. Drop effectiveness has rarely been measured due to the difficulties in collecting data from wildfires and running field experiments and the absence of definitions and measures. This paper…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Islam, Martell
Each day, forest fire managers must deploy airtankers at initial attack bases to minimize initial attack response times. They must decide how many airtankers to deploy at each base and the initial attack range of each airtanker. We develop a daily airtanker simulation model and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greulich
Airtankers are widely employed in wildland fire control operations. This paper presents a spreadsheet procedure for modeling airtanker initial-attack performance within a protection region. Easily written and modified, this spreadsheet-based model provides the user with…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vandersall
The rheological properties of forest and brush land fire retardant solutions significantly affect their performance during and following aerial discharge and subsequent distribution within the fuel ladder. The degree of dispersion, the integrity of the retardant cloud, the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Darran
For this fire season and beyond, we need to resolve to change our air tanker policies.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Listed below is a summary of finding and comments based on lessons learned as this study was conducted. 1. Fixed-wing Type 1 and 2 airtankers are justified as an integral component of the initial attack resources for land management agencies. 2. Due to differences in speed, tank…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
González-Cabán
Wildfires are a significant social problem affecting millions of people worldwide and causing major economic impacts at all levels. In the US, the severe fires of 1910 in Idaho and Montana galvanized a fire policy excluding fire from the ecosystem by the U.S.Department of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dague
Fire and Aviation Management (FAM) has established an international role in many countries. This experience, along with the recognized technical and professional experience of fire and aviation specialists in the Forest Service, provides the basis for the FAM international…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frederick
The National Infrared Operations (NIROPS) program, headquartered at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, ID, is the primary provider of operational infrared (IR) imaging services for wildland fire management across the country. The national IR program combines advanced…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
***** DISCONTINUED IN 2021 *****
The Wildland Fire Incident Management Field Guide is a revision of what used to be called the Fireline Handbook, PMS 410-1. This guide has been renamed because, over time, the original purpose of the Fireline Handbook had been…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES