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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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

Stone
[no description entered]
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The nature of heat

Countryman
[no description entered]
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An analysis of the western redcedar-grand fir forest communities in the Selway-Bitteroot wilderness, with special emphasis on fuel accumulations and fire potential

Habeck
[no description entered]
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Height of crown scorch in forest fires

Van Wagner
[no description entered]
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire behavior in lodgepole pine stands: related to the Canadian Fire Weather Index

Lawson
[no description entered]
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Part 1. Fire in the forests: Chapter 1. Man, fire, and forests; Chapter 2. Fire in North American forests; Chapter 3. Fire effects; Chapter 4. Forest fuels; Chapter 5. Fire weather; Chapter 6. Combustion of forest fuels; Chapter 7. Forest fire behav

Brown, Davis
[no description entered]
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire in the national parks symposium

Hendrickson
From the text ... 'We do not today countenance or use fire everywhere in the national park system....The National Park Service has the obligation to continue to seek to inform the American people on the significance of fire.' © 1972, Tall Timbers Research, Inc. Abstract…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The habitat requirements of sage grouse and the role of fire in management

Klebenow
From the text ... 'Sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus Bonaparte), due to their dependence upon sagebrush-grassland habitat for food and cover, are limited in distribution to the range type dominated by sagebrush, principally big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) but also its…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire ecology in ponderosa pine-grassland

Biswell
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Analysis of a simulated supplemental airtanker transfer system

Simard
From the conclusion:'As previously mentioned, the results of this study cannot be applied in the field. A great deal of additional work will be needed before application is possible. This study does show, however, that a systems dynamics approach is well suited to analyzing the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A comparison of the Canadian and American forest fire danger rating systems

Van Wagner
This Report is a technical comparison of the American and Canadian systems of forest fire danger rating. It deals with the three fuel moisture indicators in each system, as well as the indexes of spread and energy release or buildup. The final comparison is between the American…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The vegetation of four burned areas in northwestern Ontario

Methven, Van Wagner, Stocks
As the initial step in a study of forest fire cycles in the boreal forest of northwestern Ontario, four burned areas of different ages were briefly examined. This Report describes the present condition of the areas visited in terms of both forest cover and vegetation. Tentative…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Aerial seeding after wildfire in central Newfoundland

Richardson
Conclusions: 'The results of this study show that black spruce and jack pine can be established successfully by broadcast seeding from the air on fresh to moist sites on a severely burned cutover area in central Newfoundland. The seeding equipment used proved satisfactory. The…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reduced planting cost - a prescribed fire benefit

Vyse, Muraro
The effect of broadcast slash burning on the cost of planting a recently logged area of over—mature coastal hemlock—balsam—cedar forest was examined. Planting output and costs were measured before and after burning the same area. Three planting methods were used: bareroot/…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire spread in a black spruce stand

Kiil
'Fire Spread in a Black Spruce Stand.-The Canadian Forest Fire weather Index Tables consist of a family of relative fire danger indices that are used throughout Canada to assist in general fire control planning and operations. However, the fire manager must predict real fire…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Short communication; Estimates of the effect of flame size on radiation from fires

Sibulkin
The effect of flame size on the relative contributions of luminous (soot) radiation and nonluminous (molecular band) radiation is calculated for typical combustion conditions. It is found that for small flames nonluminous radiation is dominant while for larger flames, both…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting fuel loading as the result of timber cutting

Dahlgreen
[no description entered]
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest fire in the parks

Van Wagner
The suggestion that some forest fires should be allowed or even encouraged to burn in the large national and provincial parks is bound to evoke a wide range of reactions. For decades the forest authorities across Canada have spared no effort to convince people that forest fires…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Recording wind velocity, direction, and temperature in fires by logarithmic technique

Palmer, Auvil
Wind velocity, direction, and temperatures can vary drastically before, during, and after wild or prescribed fires. A data-recording system based on the logarithmic character of semiconductors has been developed for observing turbulent fluctuations from the mean in ratio form.…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prediction of prepyrolysis temperature rise in dead forest fuels

Fosberg
The heat transfer rate to forest fuels ahead of a flaming fire front is highly variable over the interval of time required to preheat the fuels. An analytical function was derived which permitted inclusion of this varying transfer rate in the calculation of temperature rise for…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Managing chaparral for water and other resources in Arizona

Hibbert, Davis, Brown
[no description entered]
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Estimating moisture content of heavy forest fuels

Furman
The specification of moisture contents in forest fuels is an integral part of any workable fire-danger rating system. This paper presents a linear model for estimating the moisture content of the 100-hour timelag fuels. The variables in the model include yesterday's computed…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Problems and priorities for forest fire research

Chandler, Roberts
[no description entered]
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Acoustic echo sounding systems: their potential in forest fire control and research

Beran
Stability of the atmosphere at different levels is one important factor affecting the behavior of forest fires, but the measurement of stability and other atmospheric phenomena is complex and difficult. The acoustic echo sounder shows promise for measuring these parameters and…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Some effects of pine-needle or grass smoke on fungi

Parmeter, Uhrenholdt
[no description entered]
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS