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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bailey, Irving, Fitzgerald
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
From the introduction: The Keetch-Byram Drought Index or KBDI has been or is still being used as a guide for estimating the cumulative moisture deficiency in deep duff or upper soil layers. Such information is needed for planning fire management operations in many regions of the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Phipps
This section of Silvics of North America: Volume 2, Hardwoods discusses habitat, climate, soils and topography, associated forest cover, life history, special uses, and genetics of balsam poplar.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Safford, Bjorkbom, Zasada
This section of Silvics of North America: Volume 2, Hardwoods discusses habitat, climate, soils and topography, associated forest cover, life history, special uses, and genetics of paper birch.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perala
Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed tree in North America. It is known by many names: trembling aspen, golden aspen, mountain aspen, popple, poplar, trembling poplar, and in Spanish, alamo blanco, and alamo temblon (49). It grows on many soil types…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nienstaedt, Zasada
White spruce (Picea glauca), also known as Canadian spruce, skunk spruce, cat spruce, Black Hills spruce, western white spruce, Alberta white spruce, and Porsild spruce, is adapted to a wide range of edaphic and climatic conditions of the Northern Coniferous Forest. The wood of…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hutchison
Alaska's romantic past includes the magnetic lure of gold; the mad stampede to strike it rich; success and heartbreak; men and animals battling snow, ice, spring breakup, insects, and loneliness; dog teams at work and on desperate missions; river steamers battling the Yukon;…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murray, Countryman
Heat-resistant anemometers have been developed for measuring horizontal and vertical air flow in fire behavior studies. The anemometers will continue to produce data as long as the anemometer body is less than 650°F. They can survive brief immersion in flame without major…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, George
Laboratory studies of fire retardant corrosion have been conducted on four alloys commonly used in air and ground tankers and mixing plants. All currently used retardants met Forest Service specifications and requirements, but with considerable variations in performance.…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson
Major revisions to Rothermel's fire spread equations include the propagating flux rate, reaction velocity, and moisture damping coefficient. The reaction intensity is of the flames alone and specifically excludes energy derived from burning char whether or not it lies in the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blakely
Water alone was the principal agent reducing flaming combustion to smoldering combustion; adding chemical retardant contributed only a slight additional reduction. Water alone was significantly less effective than chemical mixtures in reducing final energy release rates and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Johnson
Describes procedures for applying the measured flow history of water or fire retardant from an airtanker and, with the aid of a model (PATSIM), developing a guide for attaining optimum retardant distribution from a specific airplane and tanking system. Text and drawings are…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weber
Fire propagation through arrays of vertically mounted fuel elements is considered. Simple experiments and the work of Vogel and Williams [1] suggests a geometrical model for fire propagation from one element of the array to another. The advantages of a geometrical model are that…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bradshaw
Although the primary use of RXWINDOW will be for prescribed fire planning, it has applications in other fire management activities where there is a need to relate potential fire behavior to environmental conditions. For example, RXWINDOW can be used on a wildfire to determine…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ochoa, Werth
[Excerpted from text] The growth of wildfires is related to three broad factors: fuel type, topography and weather. The National Fire Danger Rating System and the Fire Behavior Prediction System combine these factors to predict the probability and severity of wildland fires.…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward
My discussion starts with some of the chemical aspects of forest fuels important from an emissions production standpoint. Then combustion processes are discussed. Finally, the emissions are described according to particulate matter and gaseous fractions.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lobert, Scharffe, Hao, Crutzen
BIOMASS burning is a primary source of many trace substances that are important in atmospheric chemistry. More than 80% of the world's biomass burning takes place in the tropics as a result of savanna fires, forest-clearing activity, and the burning of agricultural waste and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cortner, Gardner, Taylor
Urban-wildland issues have become among the most contentious and problematic issues for forest managers. Using data drawn from surveys conducted by the authors and others, this article discusses how public knowledge and perceptions of fire policies and fire hazards change over…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Main, Paananen, Burgan
This revised user's guide will help fire managers interpret the output from FIREFAMILY, a computer program that uses historic weather data for fire planning. With the changes in the National Fire-Danger Rating System, all Forest Service units will need to rerun their historical…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keetch, Byram
The moisture content of the upper soil, as well as that of the covering layer of duff, has an important effect on the fire suppression effort in forest and wildland areas. In certain forested areas of the United States, fires in deep duff fuels are of particular concern to the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Manfredo, Fishbein, Hass, Watson
ANNOTATION: This article discusses social considerations with respect to public wildland forest fire policy. Social attitudes, beliefs and behavioral intentions of wildland fire are described as well as the public's knowledge of the effects of fire. This study details these…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hartsough, Stokes
ANNOTATION: In this study a database of North American harvesting systems was developed. Parameters for each system included site, material and product characteristics, equipment mix and production rate. Onto-truck and delivered costs per green tonne, and breakeven oil prices…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stage, Crookston, Shafii, Moore, Olson
Capability to represent effects of fertilization has been added to the Prognosis Model for Stand Development. As implemented in version 6, the extension is calibrated only for applications of 200 lb nitrogen applied in the form of urea. Direct and indirect effects are based on…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston
The Event Monitor dynamically invokes management activities to be simulated by the Prognosis Model. Activities include simulated thinnings, harvesting, plantings, or any other activity that the simulation model can mimic. The Event Monitor accepts statements of conditions to be…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips
This report details site visits to the area of the 1990 Teklanika Fire. The residual timber is assessed for current and potential insect problems. Recommendations for remedial action to minimize potential insect problems are presented.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES