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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McKell, Wilson, Kay
Medusahead (Elymus caput-medusae L.) matures later in the spring than most associated species, and has a seed head moisture content of above 30 per cent for approximately a month after leaves and stems begin to dry. High temperature is more injurious to seed viability when seed…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bragg
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fons, Clements, Elliott, George
The general objectives of this project are to evaluate the effects of the independent variables of fuel, fuel bed, fuel base, and atmospheric conditions on the dependent variables such as rate of burning, flame size, rate of energy released, and others which are concerned with…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mees
Dispatching of firefighting resources requires instantaneous or precalculated decisions. A FORTRAN computer program has been developed that can provide a list of resources in order of computed arrival time for initial attack on a fire. The program requires an accurate…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen, Schuette
Maximum load-loss rate within the combustion zone of a vertically (downward) spreading fire was obtained for excelsior (0.07 cm in cross-section) at bulk densities from 0.0016 to 0.026 g/cm. Fuel was contained within a continuously weighed circular wire mesh basket 1 ft (929 cm…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Countryman
The way that a wildland fire burns and behaves, and the difficulty of controlling it, are closely related to the manner and rate of heat transfer. The speed with which fire spreads, for example, depends greatly on how quickly sufficient heat for ignition can be transferred to…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini, Korovin, Gorovaya
This paper presents a mathematical formulation of the construction of a containment perimeter for a wildland fire. The formulation permits the calculation of total burned area, final perimeter, and containment time, if the rate of growth of the fire can be specified as a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Byram, Martin
[Excerpted from text] Most experienced firefighters have encountered fire whirlwinds. These whirls, or "fire devils" as they are sometimes called, range in size from small twisters a foot or two in diameter up to violent whirls equal to small tornadoes in size and intensity.…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McMahon, Tsoukalas
The occurrence of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the combustion products of carbonaceous fuels is a well known phenomenon. Several PAW are known to be carcinogenic in animals. Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is the most well-known and studied compound of those classified by the…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer
Provides a standard format and checklist to guide the land manager through the important steps for prescribed hurning. Describes the kind of information necded to prepare fire prescriptions and burning plans. Identifies the elements of a fire prescriptlon, a burning plan, and a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Spalt, Reifsnyder
It has long been obvious to foresters that trees of different ages, and of different species but the same age, respond differently to the heat of a forest fire. Ability of plants to survive a given degree of exposure to fire depends on such factors as location of heat -sensitive…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arno
None provided
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevins, Martin
The slash (I) fuel model of the 1972 National Fire Danger Rating System was evaluated for homogeneity within the model and for differences from other fuel models. Clearcut slash is different from partial cut slash at the 1-percent level of confidence. Pacific Northwest clearcut…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hankin, Sawhney
Recently, a method for determining moisture in soil using a microwave oven was described by Miller, Smith, and Biggar (1974). This procedure requires special beakers and, in some cases, long times for heating. We describe here a simplified method for soil moisture determination…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
Adapted from a paper presented at the Joint Rocky Mountain Fire Council and Intermountain Fire Research Council Meeting, Rangeland Management and Fire held November 1-3, 1977 at Casper, Wyoming.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parmeter
Dwarf mistletoes are markedly host specific, perennial, obligate parasites. The success of mistletoe populations is tied not only to the suitability of the environment, but also to the availability and conditions of the hosts they infect. Thus, the dynamics of forest stand…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wong
The atmospheric input of carbon dioxide from burning wood, in particular from forest fires in boreal and temperate regions resulting from both natural and man-made causes and predominantly from forest fires in tropical regions caused by shifting cultivation, is estimated to be 5…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff
Productivity and utilization of browsed and unbrowsed Scouler willow (Salix scoulerina) was measured in a 1971 burn and in an adjacent 70-year-old mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forest. Production of available willow browse in the burn increased from 8 kg/ha in 1973 to 22.6…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tiedemann, Helvey, Anderson
During the first 3 years after a severe wildfire in 1970, maximum concentrations of nitrate-N (NO3-N) in stream water increased from prefire levels of <0.016 to 0.$6 mg/liter on a burned, unfertilized watershed and to 0.54 and 1.47 mg/liter on two watersheds that were burned…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, James
In a series of prescribed burns of low intensity and short duration in southern Ontario, wind speed, amount of fuel, and fuel moisture were important environmental controls of fire severity. A heterogenous pattern of burning, related to clumping in the vegetation and to a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rencz, Auclair
A study of 15 lichen woodlands in the subarctic of eastern Canada indicated a strong dominance by Picea mariana and Cladonia alpestris. Mean tree density was 556 trees per hectare. Over 75% of all tree stems were Picea mariana. Picea glauca and Larix laricina were only minor…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES