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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Williams
A study of the effects of exposure (aspect and slope angle) and natural shade on the moisture content of Douglas fir logging slash indicates that, throughout most of the fire season, such effects are not great enough to be of practical significance in slash hazard rating. In the…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Methven, Van Wagner, Stocks
As the initial step in a study of forest fire cycles in the boreal forest of northwestern Ontario, four burned areas of different ages were briefly examined. This Report describes the present condition of the areas visited in terms of both forest cover and vegetation. Tentative…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wiliston
From the introduction ... 'What we need today is some good pine growth and yield data. We've had enough thinning studies'. So spoke one woodlands manager recently. As this bibliography will show, a great deal of data is available, much of which had its genesis in thinning…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burchard
The advancement of technology relating to particulate emissions is pointed out as a significant aspect of this nation's air pollution control efforts. Important factors include the ability of particulates: to cause poor visibility, to constitute a health hazard, to act as…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Straub
Changing the display format is the least painful way for the fire manager to reduce the cost of AFFIRMS. Some ways to cut costs: •Suppress the headings only if 7 more than three headings can be saved •Pick the shortest display consistent with your needs •Don't use the special…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
'Fire Spread in a Black Spruce Stand.-The Canadian Forest Fire weather Index Tables consist of a family of relative fire danger indices that are used throughout Canada to assist in general fire control planning and operations. However, the fire manager must predict real fire…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stockstad
Spontaneous and piloted ignition of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Laws.) needles were investigated in an isothermal atmosphere. Four levels of sample moisture content were tested and minimum heat flux intensities required to produce ignition, times to ignition, and surface…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alston, Freeman
This paper examines two sets of decision rules for planning-the economic benefit-cost analysis and the sociological approach-and points the way toward a useful integration. A synthesis provides the means, both conceptual and practical, to aid the decision-maker in selecting…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haines, Johnson
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer, Auvil
Wind velocity, direction, and temperatures can vary drastically before, during, and after wild or prescribed fires. A data-recording system based on the logarithmic character of semiconductors has been developed for observing turbulent fluctuations from the mean in ratio form.…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bell, Van Wagner
In the open, the Xerometer readings bore almost no relation to the fuel moisture content, probably because the element is too well sheltered from the sun. Since it appears to be but marginally better than relative humidity as a measure of moisture content in the shade, we…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hibbert, Davis, Brown
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Furman
The specification of moisture contents in forest fuels is an integral part of any workable fire-danger rating system. This paper presents a linear model for estimating the moisture content of the 100-hour timelag fuels. The variables in the model include yesterday's computed…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Countryman
Mass fires are being investigated through a series of large-scale test fires. Preliminary results indicate: (a) air flow patterns that create eddies can result in fire vortices when fires is present; (b) the lower part of the convection column consists of a series of small…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beran
Stability of the atmosphere at different levels is one important factor affecting the behavior of forest fires, but the measurement of stability and other atmospheric phenomena is complex and difficult. The acoustic echo sounder shows promise for measuring these parameters and…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexandrov
Thermostability of plant cells is due to the resistance of their proteins to denaturation, resistance to injurious metabolic changes, reparatory capacity, and capacity to harden. Hardiness includes the stability of several functions and increases the resistance to several…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tippins
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mitchell
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangelsdorf, MacNeish, Galinat
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sharrow, Wright
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Galinat, Chaganti, Hager
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parmeter, Uhrenholdt
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Furman
For reasons of economy it may be necessary to close one or several fire-weather stations in a protection area. Since it is logical to close those stations that will have the least impact on the ability of the fire manager to assess overall fire danger, it is desirable to know if…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Hawksworth
Wildfires play a multiple role in the distribution of dwarf mistletoes - they may either inhibit or encourage these parasites depending primarily on the size and intensity of the burn. Many reports suggest that fire exclusion policies of the past half century have resulted in…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES