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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire suppression duties today are performed in a political, cultural, and physical environment that is more challenging than ever before.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hollenshead
From the text ... 'Without clearly articulated doctrinal principles in wildland fire suppression, the agency has no consistent basis for its actions or responses.... The current risk to the agency is that improper behaviors, poor judgment, or the lack of critical decisionmaking…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The 2006 Alaska fire season started out quietly, with the first human-caused fire of the season on April 11th in the Fairbanks area. A total of 250 human-caused fires resulted in 144,811.8 acres burned. On May 15, the Little Delta fire became the first lightning fire of the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy, Hunt, Turk, Anderson
Following natural disasters (such as hurricanes, tornados, or tsunamis), when civilians become displaced, or when military troops are deployed overseas, temporary housing is often a critical need. The USDA Forest Products Laboratory recently developed a lightweight,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Forthofer, Finney, Bradshaw, Stratton
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology has been used to model wind speed and direction in mountainous terrain at a relatively high resolution compared to other readily available technologies. The process termed "gridded wind"; is not a forecast, but rather represents a…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morton, Berg, Newbould, MacLean, O'Brien
In this article, we review the 2005 fire season on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, especially the five lightning starts in wilderness. The decision process for suppressing these fires, or not, clarifies some of the major obstacles to allowing wildland fires in wilderness.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following summarizes the January 2006 revision of the Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide, PMS 310-1, and identifies major changes since the January 2000 version. This revision involved field review, solicitations of comments from state, tribal, and federal agencies…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES