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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Topic

Year

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Wind tunnel evaluation of spruce foliage aerodynamics

Grant
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Some environmental effects of forest fires in interior Alaska

Eaton, Wendler
The high variablility of burning conditions and fuels, found in Alaskan forest fires, produces an associated complex emission of particulate matter. Histological evidence of some large particles has been found in the forest fire plumes as well as aerosols resulting apparently…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Measuring fire behavior with photography

Clements, Ward, Adkins
Photography is practical for recording and measuring some aspects of forest fire behavior if the scale and perspective can be determined. This paper describes a photogrammetric method for measuring flame height and rate of spread for fires on flat terrain. The flames are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prediction of bird census from vegetation structure, application to the study of a postfire succession

Prodon, Lebreton
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire research needs in eastern hardwood forests

Simard
Despite a half century of observation and data gathering, our knowledge of fire ecology in eastern hardwood forests is, for the most part, rudimentary. Little work has been done on measuring time/temperature profiles of fires, surface heat transfer coefficients, or insulating…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Climate class adjustments improve accuracy of predicted fuel moisture stick values

Harrington
In the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS), a correction is added to fuel moisture stick values to offset weathering effects. This correction is now being adjusted to compensate for different weathering rates in different climates. The corrections for NFDRS climate class…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Modeling big sagebrush as a fuel

Frandsen
Sufficient data exist within the literature to allow the woody biomass of two subspecies of Artemisia tridentata, basin big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata ssp. tridentata), and Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis), to be classified into 3 standard fuel…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Toxic effects of a fire fighting chemical

Fenton
[no description entered]
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Weather and forest fires

LaMois
[no description entered]
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Economic efficiency of fire management on nonfederal forest and range lands

Bellinger, Kaiser, Harrison
An analysis, made by a cost-plus-net-value-change criterion, revealed that the amount of money spent nationwide to achieve an efficient fire protection on nonfederal forest and range lands is appropriate. However, improvements in efficiency can be achieved by increasing the fire…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Women called 'natural housekeepers of nation'

Campbell
[no description entered]
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Human impact on closed boreal forest (taiga)

Hamet-Ahti
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Grassland as natural or semi-natural vegetation

Looman
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Corn's evolution and its significance for breeding

Galinat
[no description entered]
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Further archaeological evidence on the effects of teosinte introgression in the evolution of modern maize

Galinat, Ruppe
Another large and significant collection of prehistoric maize cobs (Zea Mays L.) with Tripsacoid characteristics that are indicative of introgression from either Tripsacum spp. or its maize derivative, teosinte (Zea mexicana Reeves and Mangelsdorf), has been provided by the…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Indian fires

Pyne
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Geocarpon minimum K.K. Mackenzie

Kral
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effect of density and thermal diffusivity of wood on the rate of burning of wood cribs

Bruce, Pong, Fons
A program of research on free-burning wood fires is being conducted by the Forest Service to build up experimental data on the properties of such fires, with the iltimate objective of describing the physical phenomena in terms of fundamental laws. Density was the first wood…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Use of models to study forest fire behavior

Fons
The U.S. Forest Service has started a laboratory study with the ultimate objective of determining model laws for fire behavior. The study includes an examination of the effect of such variables as species of wood, density of wood, moisture content, size of fuel particle, spacing…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Economic cost of initial attack and large-fire suppression

González-Cabán
A procedure has been developed for estimating the economic cost of initial attack and large-fire suppression. The procedure uses a per-unit approach to estimate total attack and suppression costs on an input-by-input basis. Fire management inputs (FMIs) are the production units…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Integrating fire management analysis into land management planning

Mills
The analysis of alternative fire management programs should be integrated into the land and resource management planning process, but a single fire management analysis model cannot meet all planning needs. Therefore, a set of simulation models that are analytically separate from…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Artificial regeneration of trees and tall shrubs in experimentally burned upland black spruce feather moss stands in Alaska

Zasada, Norum, Van Veldhuizen, Teutsch
Fall seed-dispersing species, birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.), alder (Alnus crispa (Ait.) Pursh), and black spruce Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.), and summer-seeding species, aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.), balsam poplar (P. balsamifera L.), feltleaf willow (Salix alaxensis…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Measuring fire behavior with photography: Targets imaged in the photographs are used to scale fire dimensions

Clements, Ward, Adkins
Photography is practical for recording and measuring some aspects of forest fire behavior if the scale and perspective can be determined. This paper describes a photogrammetric method for measuring flame height and rate of spread for fires on flat terrain. The flames are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The escaped fire situation: a decision analysis approach

Seaver, Roussopoulos, Freeling
A preliminary decision analysis model addressing the choice among alternative suppression strategies on escaped wildfires is presented. A case study application of the model, in the context of an Escaped Fire Situation Analysis on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, is…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

LLAFFS: a lightning-locating and fire-forecasting system

Latham
This paper presents a system for locating lightning strikes and predicting the number of fire ignitions on forests and rangelands. This system uses variables representing weather and fuels and real-time lightning locations as inputs. Outputs from the system consist of printouts…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES