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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Topic

Year

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Wetlands in the United States

Hofstetter
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Interior Alaska white spruce-hardwoods

Zasada, Argyle
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Interior ponderosa pine in the Black Hills

Boldt, Alexander, Larson
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire ecology--grasslands and man

Komarek
From the text ... 'In this particular paper, as a fire ecologist, I am not primarily interested in the economic use of fire for man, but rather in the ecological relations of fire to plants, animals, and man in those interesting and sometimes peculiar adjustments, preadaptations…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System: technical documentation

[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation management in wilderness areas and primitive parks

Heinselman
[no description entered]
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest habitat types of eastern Idaho - western Wyoming

Steele, Cooper, Ondov, Roberts, Pfister
A land-classification system based upon potential natural vegetation is presented for the forests of central Idaho. It is based on reconnaissance sampling of about 980 stands. A hierarchical taxonomic classification of forest sites was developed using the habitat type concept. A…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

How to predict the spread and intensity of forest and range fires

Rothermel
This manual documents the procedures for estimating the rate of forward spread, intensity, flame length, and size of fires burning in forests and rangelands. It contains instructions for obtaining fuel and weather data, calculating fire behavior, and interpreting the results for…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The escaped fire situation: a decision analysis approach

Seaver, Roussopoulos, Freeling
A preliminary decision analysis model addressing the choice among alternative suppression strategies on escaped wildfires is presented. A case study application of the model, in the context of an Escaped Fire Situation Analysis on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, is…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Flame structure

Fristrom, Westenberg
[no description entered]
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Application of the theory of branched chain reactions in low temperature combustion

Ben-Aim, Lucquin
[no description entered]
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Information needs for natural fire management planning [unpublished manuscript]

Parsons, Bancroft, Nichols, Stohlgren
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Story of an intense crown fire at Petawawa

Van Wagner
[no description entered]
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Potential spotting distance from wind-driven surface fires

Albini
Equations are presented by which to calculate the maximum firebrand particle lofting height from wind-driven line fires in surface fuels. Variables used are the fuel type, described as one of twelve stylized models used for fire behavior prediction, the fire intensity, and the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting wind-driven wild land fire size and shape

Anderson
Documents the analysis of wind tunnel experiments on fire spread that produced a double ellipse concept of fire area growth. This provides ways of estimating size (area), shape (perimeter), and length to width ratio of a wind-driven wild land fire. The only inputs needed are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Age polyethism: its occurrence in the ant Pheidole hortensis, and some general considerations

Calabi, Traniello, Werner
From the Introduction ... 'A main theme of eusociality is division of labor (Wilson 1971, 1975), which can be based on physiological differences (as in the case of the reproductive queen and sterile workers), morphological (size) differences among workers, or age differences…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The orientation of Melanophila acuminata degeer (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) to fires

Evans
[no description entered]
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Transport of firebrands by line thermals

Albini
The motion of a strong line thermal in an unstratified atmosphere is modeled to estimate a bound for its capability to life firebrand particles. It is found that the maximum height of a viable firebrand is roughly proportional to the square root of thermal strength. The…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fuel classification--a review of the literature and discussion of principles

Muraro
From the text:'Fuel type maps were once considered to be an integral tools of Forest Protection Organization. In western national forests of the United States where access was limited, fuel conditions diverse, and peak fire loads frequent, the necessity for decision-making tool…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Decision analysis of prescribed burning

Radloff, Yancik
From the text:'This paper desribes two generalized decision models that partically characterize decision processes for the evaluation and execution of prescribed fires. Although the two models do not incorporate all the factors managers must consider in planning for prescribed…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Significance of major moorland fires

Radley
From the text:'The peat in many parts of Britain is being severly eroded by subaerial forces, but the fire provides a method of erosion not previously emphasized. It removes whole tracts of peat and plant cover in a matter of days and permits intensive erosion for several years…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Energy production and temperatures in low-intensity forest fires

Van Wagner
From the introduction:'The purpose of this project is to measure the energy production of forest fires and how it is dissipated. If the use of energy output -rate is ever to become accepted as a means of describing forest fires, a simple method must be available, requiring…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wind adjustment factors for predicting fire behavior in three fuel types in Alaska

Norum
Factors for adjusting wind velocities from the 20-foot standard anemometer height down to an average wildfire midflame height (3.5 ft. for the fuels studied) are given for exposed, partially sheltered, and sheltered fuels in Alaska. The values are suitable for predicting…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Scarp woodlands, transported grassland soils, and concept of grassland climate in the Great Plains region

Wells
Nonriparian woodlands occur on escarpments and other topographic break throughout the grassland province of central North America. Grassland vegetation is mainly correlated with gently sloping or flat terrain mantled by deep, transported soils of Pleistocene or younger age.…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Aerial ingiters provide a new dimension to indirect attack

Quintilio, Bisgrove, Van
This paper reviews the unique aerial ignition device developed originally in Australia and the chronological work in Canada that eventually produced the Aerial Ignition Device and the Helitorch. It is of interest to note that the project has gone full circle in that Australia…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS