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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Long-term effects of fire on the composition and activity of the soil microflora of a subalpine, coniferous forest

Bissett, Parkinson
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire hazard appraisal in pre-commercially thinned stands of British Columbia coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine

Hawkes, Lawson
Fuel complexes resulting from power-saw spacing in young coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine stands were quantitatively assessed for loading and duration of hazard. Fuel appraisal data were combined with fire weather regimes to derive fire behavior predictions for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The natural history of lightning

Komarek
From the Conclusion ... 'The natural history of lightning wherever studied has shown a preponderance of evidence that:(1) Lightning is an inherent component of the earth's atmosphere and is ecologically fully as important as such better known factors as temperature, rainfall,…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetational succession on three grassy balds of the Great Smoky Mountains

Bruhn
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of season and frequency of burning on a phryganic rangeland in Greece

Papanastasis
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Logging residue as an energy source

Granthan, Howard
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Thermal behavior of conifer needle extractives

Susott
Thermal generation of combustible vapors has been measured up to 500°C for green Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and lodgepole pine foliage. The relative contributions to combustible products are given for ether, benzene-ethanol, and total extractives, as well as for holocellulose…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An introduction to tropical grassland husbandry

McIlroy
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Indian fires of spring

Lewis
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Estimating duff moisture from meteorological measurements

Frandsen, Bradshaw
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An experimental study of model fires

Byram, Clements, Elliott, George
The first part of this report presents the results of further tests of fires in wood cribs. In one series of tests cribs of the same height and structure but with different areas, or horizontal cross-sections, were burned in still air to determine the effect of size of burning…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Downed woody fuel accumulations in northern region forests

See, Brown
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

History of a small crown fire

Van Wagner
An 80-foot-square plot in a red pine plantation was burned at extreme fire danger as part of a study of fire behavior and effect. When the wind reversed its direction, the original slow-moving back-fire changed within a few minutes to a fast-spreading crown fire. The transition…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mechanical and chemical treatment of hardwood competition in mixedwood cutovers in western Newfoundland

Richardson
On rich productive mixedwood cutover sites in western Newfoundland, hardwood reproduction competes strongly with regenerating softwood seedlings, chiefly of balsam fir. An experiment was established to compare several chemical methods and one mechanical method of releasing the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Preliminary fuel consumption guidelines for prescribed burning in Ontario slash fuel complexes

McRae
This report provides interim fuel consumption guidelines for five common slash fuel complexes found in Ontario. Slash fuel consumption and depth of burn were found to be related to preburn fuel. loadings, and to fire weather as expressed by the Buildup Index (BUI), a component…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Some effects of slope on fire climate

Muraro
Variations of fuel moisture and related parameters attributable to degree of slope were studied by establishing fire weather stations on six land surfaces of the same elevation and aspect but varying from 0 to 62 per cent in steepness. Mean maximum daily temperature was found to…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Surface area of fine fuel components as a function of weight

Muraro
The frequency and weight distributions of branch litter under lodgepole pine stands and the relation between weight of fuel and surface area were investigated using 1/10,000-acre circular plots. A graph is presented from which total surface area in the square feet for certain…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The influence of insolation on fire hazard in coastal Douglas fir slash

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

The energy budget of a fuel moisture stick

Carlson, Gay
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lightning that ignites forest fires

Fuquay
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

National fuels inventory library

Bevins, Roussopoulos
In this paper, we offer a general overview of the design and status of the NFIL. We discuss the structure of the Fuels Inventory Database, the function of the various database management programs available in the Management Software Package, and the current contents of the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An instrument for rapid, accurate, determination of fuel moisture content

Sackett
'A recently developed instrument to be used operationally by a variety of industries and disciplines may significantly shorten the time needed to determine dead and live fuel moisture for those people trying to predict prescribed or wildfire behavior and effects. It can be used…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Automated fire weather forecasts

Mollner, Olsen
The Automated Fire Weather Forecast (AFWF) is a computer program designed to forecast seven of the eight fire weather forecast parameters issued daily during the fire weather season at the Boise Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO). The program uses Limited Fine Mesh (LFM)…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A national fire occurrence data library for fire management planning

Roussopoulos, Yancik, Radloff
'We have developed a prototype National Fire Occurrence Data Library (NF0DL) to help fire managers interact with resource managers in meeting the new planning requirements of the Resources Planning Act and the National Forest Management Act. The data library provides means for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A comparison of the xerometer with two other means of estimating fine fuel moisture content: final report

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