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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Long-term effects of fire on the composition and activity of the soil microflora of a subalpine, coniferous forest

Bissett, Parkinson
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire hazard appraisal in pre-commercially thinned stands of British Columbia coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine

Hawkes, Lawson
Fuel complexes resulting from power-saw spacing in young coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine stands were quantitatively assessed for loading and duration of hazard. Fuel appraisal data were combined with fire weather regimes to derive fire behavior predictions for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Factors involved in the maintenance of the grassy balds of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Radford
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of season and frequency of burning on a phryganic rangeland in Greece

Papanastasis
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Logging residue as an energy source

Granthan, Howard
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Thermal behavior of conifer needle extractives

Susott
Thermal generation of combustible vapors has been measured up to 500°C for green Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and lodgepole pine foliage. The relative contributions to combustible products are given for ether, benzene-ethanol, and total extractives, as well as for holocellulose…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Indian fires of spring

Lewis
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Estimating duff moisture from meteorological measurements

Frandsen, Bradshaw
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The mechanism of combustion of droplets and sprays of liquid fuels

Williams
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Downed woody fuel accumulations in northern region forests

See, Brown
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Weight of the fuel complex in 70-year-old Lodgepole pine stands of different densities

Kiil
A study was made of the fuel complex in 70-year old lodgepole pine stands in west-central Alberta to facilitate measurement and prediction of weight-and-size distribution of fuel components. Results showed that the weight of the entire fuel complex increased with increasing…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The moisture content of forest fuels -- I: a review of the basic concepts

Simard
From the Introduction ... 'It is a well known fact that the presence of moisture exerts considerable influence on the difficulty of ignition and the subsequent rate of combustion of forest fuels. Its effect on ignition is primarily a result of the fact that the water must be…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The moisture content of forest fuels -- II: comparison of moisture content variations above the fibre saturation point between a number of fuel types

Simard
From the Introduction: 'The purpose of the present study is to determine the rate at which various fuels can absorb water. The present study is concerned primarily with relative absorption and drying rates between various types of fuels. Future research will attempt to determine…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mechanical and chemical treatment of hardwood competition in mixedwood cutovers in western Newfoundland

Richardson
On rich productive mixedwood cutover sites in western Newfoundland, hardwood reproduction competes strongly with regenerating softwood seedlings, chiefly of balsam fir. An experiment was established to compare several chemical methods and one mechanical method of releasing the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Preliminary fuel consumption guidelines for prescribed burning in Ontario slash fuel complexes

McRae
This report provides interim fuel consumption guidelines for five common slash fuel complexes found in Ontario. Slash fuel consumption and depth of burn were found to be related to preburn fuel. loadings, and to fire weather as expressed by the Buildup Index (BUI), a component…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The rate of burning of cribs of wood

Smith, Thomas
Because cribs of wood are widely used to produce experimental fires it is sometimes necessary to predict their burning behavior especially when their burning rate is not controlled primarily by some other factor such as the window opening in a compartment. If the window is large…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Interim volumetric expansion values for bark: FPL Technical Note

Martin
From the text ... 'Improved utilization of bark is dependent, to a large degree, on knowledge of its properties. Very little information is available on physical properties of bark, however, and none is available on volumetric changes of bark due to moisture sorption. A…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Areal rainfall variability and its effect upon forest fire danger rating

Webb
From the text... 'Of all the meteorological elements which are known to affect forest fuel flammability and fire behaviour, rain is the most variable in its areal distribution. in its frequency, and particularly in its amount. While the measurement of rainfall is simple,…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The line intersect method in forest fuel sampling

Van Wagner
A method for estimating wood volume on the ground is described. It requires only a diameter tally of pieces intersected by a sample line, and application of a simple formula. Theory for the formula is presented, and practical application discussed. The effect of bias in…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Weather and slash burning

Turner
This note outlines the objectives and problems of prescribed burning as a tool of forest management. The importance of a number of weather factors is discussed and suggestions are presented for provision of effective weather guidance to forest officers concerned with this…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effect of green vegetation on surface fire spread in the laboratory

Stocks, Walker
From the text... 'It has long been recognized in forestry that minor vegetation leafing out on the forest floor in the early spring retards the advance of surface fires. This experiment was designed to provide some general understanding of this effect. The work was done in the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The energy budget of a fuel moisture stick

Carlson, Gay
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lightning that ignites forest fires

Fuquay
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

National fuels inventory library

Bevins, Roussopoulos
In this paper, we offer a general overview of the design and status of the NFIL. We discuss the structure of the Fuels Inventory Database, the function of the various database management programs available in the Management Software Package, and the current contents of the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An instrument for rapid, accurate, determination of fuel moisture content

Sackett
'A recently developed instrument to be used operationally by a variety of industries and disciplines may significantly shorten the time needed to determine dead and live fuel moisture for those people trying to predict prescribed or wildfire behavior and effects. It can be used…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS