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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Flowers, Shinkle, Cain, Mills
'Estimates of the timber net value change and timber output change resulting from wildfre were calculated for 9828 situation-specific fire and management conditions in the northern Rocky Mountains. After slight aggregation across the less sensitive situation parameters,…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
This paper analysizes wind speed and direction distributions obtained at nine forestry stations and nine airports across Canada. The effect of differences in the distributions on forest fire danger rating is discussed. The major finding is that forestry stations have a…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
'Considering that most of us in the fire business are involved in management of at least some public land and that, regardless of land status, many of our actions or inactions are subject to public view and often public criticism, an awareness of the political scene, what it…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pech
Seven composite samples of western red cedar and western hemlock logging slash of 0.25 to 2 inches diameter were exposed on top of and within the bottom third of a fuel bed in the interior wet belt of British Columbia in August 1965. Their moisture contents were measured…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potts
Interest has increased recently in the use of herbicides to control woody plants on land intended for timber production. This increase in interest is due in part to: (1) the introduction of more versatile and more maneuverable woodland equipment such as the skidder tractor, (2)…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
The Sundance Fire and its impressive run were not due to any new phenomena but the combination of several important factors. Extremely dry fuels and favourable weather conditions existed at the time; the atmospheric winds increased steadily thorughout the day, and the fire did…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine, Eiber
Weather data from Upsala and Atikokan, Ontario, were used to determine the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System values and to calculate the soil moisture for two soil types using the Thornthwaite water balance. The Duff Moisture Code and the Drought Code were found to give…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lorimer
A number of nondestructive techniques for analyzing the timing, frequency, and magnitude of natural disturbances in forest stands are discussed in this paper. Intensive age determination of trees is desirable for reconstructing forest disturbance history, but age distrubution…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gruell, Bunting, Neuenschwander
Comprehensive sampling of curlleaf mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius) on 41 sites in five States allowed an assessment of postfire population dynamics, differences in regeneration patterns, and critical events in stand regeneration. Historical accounts of fire, fire…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Van Wagner
The objective of this paper is to explain the distributions, assumptions, interpretations, and relationships of the two compatible, stochastic models of fire history: the negative exponential and the Weibull. For each model the 'fire interval' and 'time-since-fire' distributions…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chambers
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Auclair
Postfire recovery of biomass and soil organic pools was measured in a sequence of 10 subarctic lichen woodlands aged from 0 to 140 years. Less than one-tenth of total live biomasss combusted at the time of burning. Aboveground biomass combustion of species ranged from nil to…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bonnicksen, Stone
National park resource management planning requires ecological information describing the objectives to be achieved. This information must be quantitative and unambiguous. Since most acts creating United States national parks, beginning with the Yellowstone National Park Act of…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Wein
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Khan, Laude
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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett, Barghoorn, Berger
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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ritchie
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knapp, Gilliam
Photosynthetic pigments and several structural characteristics were measured in leaves of Andropogon gerardii from tallgrass prairie populations in an unburned, low-irradiance site and a burned, high-irradiance site to determine if these species displayed sun/shade differences…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
An empirical relationship was derived between the ratio of total length to maximum width or breadth (L/B) of wind-driven forest fires on level terrain originating from a point source ignition and the international standard 10-m open wind (W). The relation is based on the wind…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cohen, Deeming
Updating the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) was completed in 1977, and operational use of it was begun the next year. The System provides a guide to wildfire control and suppression by its indexes that measure the relative potential of initiating fires. Such fires do…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Farjon, Bogaers
Description not entered.
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards, Dunwiddie
Sexual and clonal reproduction is occurring in a stand of Populus balsamifera on the Alaskan North Slope. Both even-aged and gradually expanding clones were observed. Trees attain ages in excess of 230 yr, but are slender due to slow diametrical growth (1.4 to 2.5 mm yr-1). A…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blakely
Proposes a method for quantifying the fire-extinguishing capabilities of plain water and water with thickeners and fire-retarding chemicals added. Flaming pine needle fuel beds were sprayed with different water/chemical combinations while energy release rates were continuously…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Beaufait, Fischer
Fire managers require 24-hour records of temperature, relative humidity, and windspeed to use fire efficiently and effectively. When carefully calibrated and interpreted, modified hygrothermographs provide minimum instrumentation to obtain these records. An actual case of record…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES