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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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From the text... 'This initial release of these Guidelines reflects the efforts of the Fire Management Task Force and subsequent review by park, regional and WASO staff. It represents the framework of the Service fire management program. The WASO Office of Fire Management,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte, Gorte
The USDA Forest Service policy adopted in 1935 calls for fast, aggressive fire suppresssion action. Economic considerations, first voiced in 1916, quieted after 1935, until the 1960's and 1970's. The most common technique proposed is least-cost-plus-loss; the objective is to…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Manthy
In summary, I am sympathetic with the concerns of fire management over the need for additional training of fire management practitioners, but I reject the suggested solution. The options to a new curriculum have not been adequately considered, and the costs of the employment,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martini
College curriculums in fire management are not producing people who are qualified to do a total fire management job for hiring fire agencies. Most schools are offering only 2-3 credits in fire that are poorly taught and often downgraded in value by the faculty. This creates an…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gemmer
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis
Federal, state, and local agencies, working through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, have developed a National Interagency Fire Qualification System (NIFQS). NIFQS sets uniform standards for fire suppression work, specifying prerequisite jobs, currency of experience,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bowman
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen, Burgan
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Iltis, Guzman, Pazy
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anonymous
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen, Andrews
Predicting fire behavior in nonuniform fuel arrays is a problem requiring: 1. A method of assessing fuel nonuniformity, 2. A method of simulating fuel nonuniformity, and 3. An algorithm governing fire spread through a simulated array. Satisfying these requirements is the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fuquay, Baughman, Latham
A model has been developed for predicting the number of lightning-fire ignitions in wildland fuels. The model is based on both stochastic and physical processes. Stochastic methods are used to generalize the lightning storm characteristics and site conditions that affect the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Latham
Systems to enable land managers to locate, evaluate, and counter the fire threat of lightning storms are in the early stages of development. In the western U.S. and Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management has established networks of instruments that locate lightning strikes by…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
This report discusses fire-related research needs in the western regions of the Forest Service. These needs were expressed by personnel at all management levels. Responses were one part of a more general study designed to establish information requirements for integrating fire…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Borden
A discussion on the impacts to fire management resulting from various acts of legislation including NEPA, the Clean Air Act, the Wilderness Act, and the National Forest Management Act.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Egging
Today, natural resource managers and scientists are required to evaluate and even anticipate the effects that management practices for a single resource will have on the production or use of all other natural resources. For example, a successful prescribed fire will accomplish…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips
Some of you may be like I am: a thick-skinned, hard-of-hearing traditionalist. For many years we fire fighters, fire managers, and resource managers have been bombarded, lambasted and harangued about the need to integrate fire and fire management into plans for managing wildland…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyon
Land use planning has truly reached a high plateau in this country. Planning is firmly entrenched and here to stay. With the population increase and therefore increased resource demands, our resource producing land base is shrinking. We must strive for maximum production on the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cutler
[From the text] The topics to be discussed today are certainly timely and deserve your attention. I feel it is significant that your working group is trying to involve landowners, managers and planners. Fire was a front page news story this summer. The severe fire situation…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A compilation of papers presented at the Society of American Foresters, Fire Working Group technical session held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2-6, 1977. The keynote address by Dr. M. Rupert Cutler, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture established the session's perspective…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan
A fire danger/fire behavior Custom Read Only Memory (CROM) has been developed for the Texas Instruments model 59 hand held calculator. It can be used to compute both 1978 National Fire Danger Rating indexes and components and several variables used to estimate wildfire behavior…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
Presents a predictive model for calculating the maximum spot fire distance expected when firebrands are thrown into the air by the burning of tree crowns. Variables included are: quantity and surface/volume ratio of foliage in the burning tree(s), height of the tree(s), and the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES