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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Agee
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kayll
Through a review of literature, the essential role of fire in the boreal forest as a natural regulatory agent of composition and succession is discussed in terms of plants, soils, and animals. In natural, long-term cycles, the incidence of lightning-started fires on a particular…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cushwa
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kalmbacher, Martin
Sawpalmetto (Serenoa repens (Bartr.)Small) is the major shrub on Florida range, and both mechanical and chemical control have been less than satisfactory. At best plant kill with tandem chopping has been about 80% while herbicidal kill has been about 75%. The purpose of this…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jarvis, Tucker
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fischer
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cramer
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ward
From the text ... 'The Delta Marsh lies in south-central Manitoba, 75 miles north of the U.S. border. It is within the eastern edge of the Aspen Parkland, between the Great Plains of central North America and the coniferous forests of the Pre-cambrian Shield.The Delta Marsh…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chrosciewicz
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cain
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pauly
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
A study was made of the fuel complex in 70-year old lodgepole pine stands in west-central Alberta to facilitate measurement and prediction of weight-and-size distribution of fuel components. Results showed that the weight of the entire fuel complex increased with increasing…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the Conclusion: 'The ultimate justification for conducting research on forest fire is a) that it is a complex natural phenomenon with both physical and biological dimensions, b) that it can only be described and understood through scientific investigation, c) that it…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mohr
From the text: 'This technique uses a form for recording and displaying prescription fire data. Measured environmental elements and observed fire behavior are consolidated on one page.'
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
From the text: 'In summary, the coupling of a burning prescription which could deliver adequate fire intensity with gelled gasoline helitorch ignition to overcome some of the fuel arrangement and topographic problems resulted in a generally successful rehabilitation effort at…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Denney
From the text: 'Remember, an aluma-gel mix can 'make or break' a helitorch operation. It is suggested for the inexperienced to invite someone knowledgeable to assist on the heliport and aid in training your mixing crew. Timing is very important. It takes practice for a mixing…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Rich
From the Summary: 'Helitorch burning is a complex system of organization consisting of three subsystems: (1) HELITORCH ON THE GROUND, (2) HELITORCH OVER BURNING BLOCK, and (3) MANAGEMENT OF HELITORCH BEFORE ARRIVAL AT BURN SITE AND AFTER IGNITION. In each subsystem events have…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lait
Text: 'Fire suppression offers the fire manager little or no time to prepare personnel for tasks which require considerable logistical preparation. Usually these aspects such as air tanker loading and retardant mixing are contracted out and are very expensive. Techniques such as…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Brown
Text: 'Historically, surface fires ignited by lightning and Native Americans burned through the ponderosa pine-fir forests of the Northern Rockies at intervals of 5 to 25 years. The frequent underburns favored regeneration and survival of pine and western larch, and maintained…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Text: 'Recent spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) infestations have resulted in widespread areas of balsam fir (Abies balsamea [L.] Mill) mortality in Ontario and interest in converting these areas back into productive forest by the use of a tramping following by a…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Text: 'Eleven experimental burns were conducted in the Kapuskasing District of the northern Clay Belt Region in Ontario for the period 1979-1983. The test fires, using strip headfires for ignition, were used to study the fire behavior in boreal mixedwood slash fuel complexes as…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS