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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Korovin
From the text ... 'The main task of the study of the nature of forest fires is to obtain quantitative characteristics which make it possible from known conditions of development of the fire to determine its basic parameters at each moment of time. The perimeter of the fire, its…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fowler
A simple device for indicating maximum windspeed during a time interval is described. Use of a unijunction transistor, for voltage sensing, results in a stable comparison circuit and also reduces overall component requirements. Measurement is presented digitally in 1-mile-per…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donoghue, Paananen
From the text ... 'Ninety-one percent of all wildifres occuring in the United States are caused by human activities. From 1974 through 1978, an average of 128,092 fires burned 1,814,943 acres of forest and other protected land (USDA Forest Service 1972-1980). In region 9 alone (…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Matson, Schneider, Aldridge, Satchwell
This report discusses the potential usefulness of thermal infrared sensors onboard NOAA polar-orbiting satelites for detecting fires. In particular, the 3.8-micron channel is sensitive to high temperature sources such as fires. This paper will demonstrate how the 3.8-micron…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Caldwell
From the text... 'Governments own most of our forest and because of the lumberjacks* work they have gathered great armsful of gold. Governments should not be responsible for forest management because with every political change policy vacillates. We have never had a consistent…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Telfer
Prediction equations arc presented for use in estimating total aboveground weight and maximum leaf weight for 22 species of woody plants. Stem diameter at the ground line was found to be closely correlated with both total and leaf weights. This diameter was therefore used in the…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Savage, Martin, Letey
Eight species of fungi isolated from a water repellent soil were incubated for varying periods of time in silica sand. In their latter stages of growth. two of the fungi, Aspergillus Sidowi and Penicillium nigricans, caused limited water repellency in the sand. All the fungal…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shafizadeh, Sekiguchi
In view of the significance of the properties and reactions of chars during the process of smoldering combustion, a series of cellulosic chars was prepared at temperatures ranging from 340 to 6000C and their pyrolysis and combustion properties were studied by thermal analysis.…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mallik, Gimingham, Rahman
(1) Measurements were made of water infiltration, water retention and porosity of soils of burned and unburned plots of heathland. (2) On the burned plot the rate of infiltration was decreased by up to 74% compared to the unburned plot. (3) Moisture retention in the top soil of…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pimm
Early studies suggested that simple ecosystems were less than complex ones, but later studies came to the opposite conclusion. Confusion arose because of the many different meanings of 'complexity' and 'stability'. Most of the possible questions about the relationship between…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Biging, Wensel
A method of photographing and digitizing radial growth on section rounds from destructively sampled trees for stem analysis was developed and compared in accuracy against hand measurements on those same rounds. Results indicated a high degree of correlation between photographic…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamilton
Methods are described for sampling and estimating mortality rates using strips of large-scale color aerial photography as the primary sampling unit. The methods have been designed to be used in situations where steep terrain and the lack of a radar altimeter make it very…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harris
Fuel values were determined for stems and branches in three hardwood species: white oak, yellow-poplar, and sweetgum. A significant difference was found between the higher heating value of the stemwood and branchwood of white oak. Otherwise, no difference in higher heating value…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gruell
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Springer, Van Wagner
...The purpose of this study was limited to producing information for use in the prediction of crown fire behavior, not to yield a complete account of foliar moisture dynamics in black spruce. The feature of primary interest, therefore is the trend of average foliar moisture…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
This paper analysizes wind speed and direction distributions obtained at nine forestry stations and nine airports across Canada. The effect of differences in the distributions on forest fire danger rating is discussed. The major finding is that forestry stations have a…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fleeter, Fendell, Cohen, Gat, White
Urban and wildland fires propagate via ignition of discrete fuel elements.Transfer of heat from burning to nonburning fuel is strongly influenced by wind because of its effects on combustion rates, on convective flow patterns, and on radiative transfer owing to its modification…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
Large suppression programs have been organized in an effort to avoid the potentially large damages from wildfires. To help determine the efficient sizes and usage of these programs, simulation models have been developed. Recent widespread implementation of one such model --…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pech
Seven composite samples of western red cedar and western hemlock logging slash of 0.25 to 2 inches diameter were exposed on top of and within the bottom third of a fuel bed in the interior wet belt of British Columbia in August 1965. Their moisture contents were measured…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potts
Interest has increased recently in the use of herbicides to control woody plants on land intended for timber production. This increase in interest is due in part to: (1) the introduction of more versatile and more maneuverable woodland equipment such as the skidder tractor, (2)…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chung
In Canada about 1.3 million hectares (M ha) of forests are destroyed by wildfires each year, and about 63% of all these fires are man-caused. During the 1980 and 1981 fire seasons, however, about 10 M ha were damaged; estimated annual emissions from forest fires were 224 million…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Fire is used in land management because it helps to solve the problems of the land manager. Fire is presently used extensively to reduce fire hazard, prepare sites for forest regeneration, and improve range and wildlife habitat. Fire has great potential for other uses such as…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
The Sundance Fire and its impressive run were not due to any new phenomena but the combination of several important factors. Extremely dry fuels and favourable weather conditions existed at the time; the atmospheric winds increased steadily thorughout the day, and the fire did…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS