# Interviews with members of the HJA Community during the Lookout Fire, HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, 2023

## Dataset

- **Database Code:** SS012

- **Title:** Interviews with members of the HJA Community during the Lookout Fire, HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, 2023

- **Abstract:**

This dataset records the interview instrument, analytical codebook, and summary of results for the 2023 Lookout Fire Qualitative Interviews. Data was collected in 2023 in Corvallis, Oregon, and over Zoom. Members of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest (HJA) community (e.g., university faculty and administrative professionals, agency scientists and personnel, students, alumni and emeritus from the aforementioned communities) were interviewed between September 26th and November 8th 2023. At the time, the fire had largely stopped growing (no significant runs occurred during the interview period), but the fire was not fully contained and the fire severity was not yet known by the community. Data collection is complete. The interview included questions about emotional reactions to the Lookout Fire, current and foreseen impacts to research at the HJA, social relationships and the fire, naturalness of the fire, and climate change, climate anxiety, and the fire. Interviews were semi-structured; while interviews were guided by the interview protocol, conversation was allowed to proceed organically. In total, 40 respondents were interviewed. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed inductively and deductively. A finalized codebook was developed iteratively; the included codebook are the final codes used to analyze the full dataset. Interview transcripts and other potentially identifying information is not available to protect respondent confidentiality and anonymity. This dataset summarizes the key interview results.


- **Keywords:** history; wildfires; humans; H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest (AND); human dimensions; attitudes and perceptions

- **Temporal coverage:** 2023-09-26 to 2024-08-05

- **Principal Investigator:** Michael P. Nelson


## Data Entities

1. Lookout fire (2023) interview documents

## Entity 1: Lookout fire (2023) interview documents

### Attribute list

- **DBCODE** — varchar, enum

FSDB Database Code

  - **SS012** — FSDB Database Study Code


- **ENTITY** — numeric(1), range  1.0000  1.0000, number

Entity number


- **DOC_ID** — varchar, freetext

Unique document identification code


- **TITLE** — varchar, freetext

Document title


- **DESCRIPTION** — varchar, freetext

Document description


- **FILE_DATE** — datetime, freetext

Date associated with document


- **CREATOR** — varchar, enum

Document creator

  - **C. Rapp** — Claire Rapp


- **FILENAME** — varchar, freetext

Document filename


- **FILE_FORMAT** — varchar, enum

Document format

  - **PDF** — Portable Document Format


- **PAGES** — numeric(1), range  4.0000  10.0000, number

Number of pages within the document


- **SIZE_BYTE** — numeric(1), range  187096.0000  242645.0000, number

Physical size (bytes) of document on server


- **CHECKSUM** — varchar, freetext

Hash sum (MD5) represented by the digital file


- **DOC_URL** — varchar, freetext

Link to download document


## Attribute Definitions

**CHECKSUM**

Hash sum (MD5) represented by the digital file


**CREATOR**

Document creator


**DBCODE**

FSDB Database Code


**DESCRIPTION**

Document description


**DOC_ID**

Unique document identification code


**DOC_URL**

Link to download document


**ENTITY**

Entity number


**FILENAME**

Document filename


**FILE_DATE**

Date associated with document


**FILE_FORMAT**

Document format


**PAGES**

Number of pages within the document


**SIZE_BYTE**

Physical size (bytes) of document on server


**TITLE**

Document title


## Enumerated Domains

### DBCODE

- **SS012** — FSDB Database Study Code

### CREATOR

- **C. Rapp** — Claire Rapp

### FILE_FORMAT

- **PDF** — Portable Document Format