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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ascher, Alexander
This videotape production (1987, 18 min) offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project being conducted at Big Fish Lake in northcentral Alberta since 1984 by Forestry Canada and the Alberta Forest Service (AFS).
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stewart
From the text ... 'The historic records from around the world leave no room to doubt that primitive hunting and gathering peoples, as well as ancient farmers and herders, for a number of reasons, frequently and intentionally set fire to almost all the vegetation around them…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fueno, Mukherjee, Ree, Eyring
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Laderman, Hecht, Stern, Oppenheim
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Calcote
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Eleftheridis, Tsalikidis
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weinberg
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradley
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) is a computer-based, menu-driven encyclopedia of fire effects and general ecological information for plant species, wildlife species, and plant communities. It provides interpreted, summarized information in an easy-to-use format and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, McRae, Lynham, Hartley
This photo-series was designed to present photographs and a detailed inventory of fuels for important stands in the Boreal and Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Forest Regions of Ontario. Over the last 20 years, an experimental burning program conducted by Forestry Canada, Ontario…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cayford
In the fall of 1955 a forest fire burned approximately 12,000 acres of merchantable and young growth jack pine on the Sandilands Forest Reserve in southeastern Manitoba. A fact-finding observational study was carried out between 1956 and 1961 to determine the amount and…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
The physical properties of bark are virtually uninvestigated, and the resulting lack of knowledge has relegated bark to the role of residue. Significant among these properties are thermal characteristics, which are basic to the use of bark as thermal insulation. This paper…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
Recreation is of increasing importance in forest environments. Fire has both short-term effects, trail closures, smoke impacts; and long-term effects, residual 'scars,' potential hazards, on forest recreation. The general public is gaining sophistication in understanding forest…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lachowski, Rodman, Shovic
The 1988 fires created a lot of changes in land cover in Greater Yellowstone Area, an area of several million acres administered by the Park Service, Forest Service and other Federal, State and private owners. Remotely sensed data, such as aerial photography and imagery…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ffolliott
Fire, either as a natural occurrence or a management tool, can have beneficial effects on the environment, and its use offers opportunities for reducing fuel loads, disposing of slash, preparing seedbeds, thinning stands, increasing herbaceous plant production, increasing…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniel
Obstacles to public acceptance of prescribed fire include misunderstanding of fire in forest ecosystems, concerned risk to life and property and assumed adverse effects on scenic and recreation values. Increased appreciation of the ecological, safety (fuel reduction) and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
The public outcry about the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent natural forests, coupled with concern among natural resource managers, convinced the Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to establish the Fire Management Policy Review Team in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
The program RXWINDOW is intended to help fire managers develop prescription windows based on desired fire behavior. It is the fifth program in the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. It reverses calculations found elsewhere in BEHAVE. In RXWINDOW, the user…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson
Major revisions to Rothermel's fire spread equations include the propagating flux ratio, 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: TTRS
Canham, Denslow, Platt, Runkle, Spies, White
Light regimes beneath closed canopies and tree-fall gaps are compared for five temperate and tropical forests using fish-eye photography of intact forest canopies and a model for calculating light penetration through idealized gaps. Beneath intact canopies, analyses of canopy…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Branhagen
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
In the aftermath of the Greater Yellowstone Area fires of 1988, scientists from all across North America recognized the once in a lifetime research opportunities these fires presented. For a host of reasons, the Yellowstone fires were unique, due largely to their grand scale and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
Problems encountered in the field of ire detection and suppression are outlined. The experimental program for the evaluation of infrared scanning devices currently in progress at the Forest Fire Laboratory is discussed. Data accumulated to date on the nature of small fires and…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS