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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Eenigenburg
Presents TI-59 programs that use fire arrival times to calculate the rate and direction of spread of a fire across a triangular or square plot.
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kerstetter
ANNOTATION: This paper reviews the topic of biomass air gasifiers. The gasification process chemistry is outlined and the operating characteristics of two types of gasifiers are presented. A few typical applications are discussed and the economics for a particular system are…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Meyer
ANNOTATION: This paper briefly describes the history of the logging industry in the United States. Specifically, harvesting technology and methods are discussed. Many significant and far-reaching changes have taken place in the logging industry since its inception in the mid-…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robatcek
ANNOTATION: The purpose of the paper is to discuss some of the implications of improved residue utilization on timber sales activities. Improved residue utilization on timber sales requires new and innovative economic and practical approaches on timber sales. Varying uses,…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schweitzer
ANNOTATION: As the values of wood products increase, there are more economic opportunities to utilize residues. This is true both for dead-and-down materials and for previously unharvested stands which, together, make up the potential economic residues resource. A variety of…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
ANNOTATION: The framework for harvesting and utilization opportunities for forest residues includes a number of long standing as well as recently enacted statutes. Air and water quality standards as set forth in legislation also have an effect on utilization opportunities. A…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturos
ANNOTATION: Three processes have been developed in the United States, one in Canada, and one in Finland for improving the quality of whole-tree and forest residue chips. They have potential application individually or in combination. Two of them have been applied commercially by…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chesemore
In 1951 and 1954, vegetation study plots and observations on wildlife reactions to the forest fire of 1950 along the upper Porcupine River, Alaska, were begun by members on the Alaska Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit. Periodically, the study areas were visited and data on…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Niering
Prescribed burning is extensively used in wildlife, forest, and range management, and in maintaining biotic diversity. Burning tends to increase food and/or favourable habitat conditions for many upland game and waterfowl species. Prescribed burning in forest management is used…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day, Harvey
The mixedwood forest is defined as a successional mosaic of stratified mixed stands of disturbance (mainly wildfire) origin. The effect of long-term exclusion of fire is discussed. A plea is made for a 'let-burn' policy in parks and improved silviculture for maintaining the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
The motion of a strong line thermal in an unstratified atmosphere is modeled to estimate a bound for its capability to lift firebrand particles. It is found that the maximum height of a viable firebrand is roughly proportional to the square root of thermal strength. The…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
Bulk densities of surface fuels divided into three strata were determined for dominant fuel groups to aid in describing compactness and horizontal continuity for fire behavior modeling. Dominant fuel groups were defined as horizontally distributed fuels having recognizably…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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. wyomingensiis), to be classified into 3 standard fuel…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward, Sandberg
This publication presents tables on the behavior of fire and the resistance of fuels to control. The information is to be used with the publication, "Photo Series for Quantifying Forest Residues in the Ponderosa Pine Type, Ponderosa Pine and Associated Species Type, Lodgepole…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sandberg, Ward
This publication presents tables on the behavior of fire and the resistance of fuels to control. The information is to be used with the photos in the publication, 'Photo Series for Quantifying Forest Residues in the Coastal Douglas-fir--Hemlock Type, Coastal Douglas-fir--…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Lee, Street
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: TTRS
This report discusses a proposed new fire retardant system and the laboratory analysis and evaluation of the retardant solution produced. The demand mix system uses an ammonium sulfate based concentrate to which a gum-thickener (with or without coloring) is added as the solution…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
In this paper a mathematical description of flow into the forest edge is proposed and used as a basis for a detailed reexamination of experimental results from the scale model studies of Kawatania and Sadeh (1971). It is the intention here to use the experimental data to guide…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Four 0.8-ha plots south of Tucson, Ariz., were burned November 12, 1975, in a pasture where cattle had not grazed for 12 months. The fire top-killed most small mesquites, killed almost all of the burroweed and much of the cactus, except in unburned patches. Within 5 years…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
The burnout of large-sized woody fuels, 1 to 6 inches thick, is being measured at the USDA Forest Service Northern Forest Fire Laboratory in Missoula, Mont. Physical properties of the fuel bed are varied to determine threshold for interactive burning, periods of flaming and…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doerksen
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yarie
The structure and function of taiga ecosystems over a 3,600,000 ha area of northeastern interior Alaska was shown to be consistent with a hypothesis relating vegetative structure and dynamics to site nutrient status and soil temperature. Ordination of modal community…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES