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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Strang, Johnson
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kucera
Most grassland environments are conducive to the ignition and spread of fire. The vegetation provides flammable fuel which when burned facilitates new growth and restricts tree encroachment. The grassland community exhibits various adaptations to fire environment. Fire intensity…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blumberg
From the text...'Arson, 'the willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property or another, etc., ' has been a topic of study of law enforcement and fire prevention…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tisdale, Hironaka
The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of literature on the vegetation of the sagebrush region of North America. Since the objective is to document the current status of knowledge of sagebrush vegetation, emphasis has been placed on thorough coverage of…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moore
This guide, based on a literature review and personal contacts, offers recommendations and standards for procedures in reducing losses of residences from wildfires. Possible solutions to the problem of fire protection are discussed in the broad areas of land-use planning and…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bratten, Davis, Flatman, Keith, Rapp, Storey
FOCUS (Fire Operational Characteristics Using Simulation) is a computer simulation model for evaluating alternative fire management plans. This final report provides a broad overview of the FOCUS system, describes two major modules-fire suppression and cost, explains the role in…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Meter, George
Based on the hypothesis that the spatial distribution on the ground of fire retardant materials, dropped from fixed-wing aircraft, must be a result of the physical properties of the retardant, a series of experiments has been run to measure the dispersal patterns obtained with…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Warren, Wilson
Provides a brief history of USDA Forest Service infrared (IR) research, current status of image systems in development, and future plans and projected uses of infrared imagery. Describes status of Forest Service IR systems research, development, testing, and usage up to the time…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Johnson
This report discusses a proposed new fire retardant system and the laboratory analysis and evaluation of the retardant solution produced. The proposed system utilizes ammonium sulfate, delivered dry and liquified at the base, as the active fire retardant salt. For use, the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marty, Barney
A guidebook has been developed to assist the fire managers and planners in estimating actual economic costs, losses, and benefits resulting from fire management activities. This guidebook was developed and tested on 12 National Forests during the 1977-79 period. The procedures…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Yarie
The negative exponential and Wiebull distributions were used to estimate stand survivorship curves for forested sites in the Porcupine River drainage of interior Alaska. The survivorship curve of Picea glauca (Moench) Voss sites was best described by a Wiebull function, while…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pyne
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stocks, Barney
Forest fire statistical records to 1979 are given for Newfoundland (from 1949), Quebec (1924), Ontario (1917), Manitoba (1918), Saskatchewan (1918), Alberta (1918), Northwest Territories (1946), Yukon (1950), Alaska (1940), Sweden (1946) and Finland (1952). Figures for fire…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanson
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Artsybashev
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heinselman
Most presettlement Canadian and Alaskan boreal forests and Rocky Mountain subalpine forests had lightning fire regimes of large-scale crown fires and high-intensity surface fires, causing total stand replacement on fire rotations (or cycles) to 50 to 200 years. Cycles and fire…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson
The variances of species abundances from 141 upland stands are partitioned into habitat and fire frequency. Principal components analysis is then performed on each of these partitions. The habitat ordination has a topographic-canopy coverage gradient and a nutrient gradient. The…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES