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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bissett, Parkinson
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Papanastasis
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Granthan, Howard
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Sylvester, Wein
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donaldson, Donaldson
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen, Bradshaw
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
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
Rundel
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
See, Brown
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
Albini
This note extends a predictive model for estimating spot fire distance from burning trees (Albini, Frank A. 1979. Spot fire distance from burning trees--a predictive model. USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-56, 73 p. Intermt. For. and Range Exp. Stn., Ogden, Utah). A formula…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren, Vance
From the Research Summary: 'Remote Automatic Weather Stations (FAWS) have been developed and are now operational across the nation in a variety of geographical areas. RAWS acquire, process, store, and transmit accumulative precipitation, wind-speed, wind direction, air…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Newstead, Quintilio, Lee
From the text: 'As an aid to improved presuppression and initial-attack planning, a simple fire containment model programmed for the Texas Instruments Model 59 (TI-59) hand-held calculator has been developed at the Northern Forest Research Centre. The model was derived in part…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carleton, Maycock
One hundred and ninety-seven boreal forest stands, in a region of Ontario and Quebec south of James Bay, were examined. Tree species were summarized as relative density of each of five stem size classes. These data formed the basis for an exclusive polythetic divisive stand…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lawson
From the text ... 'It is now recognized that indiscriminate slash burning has no place in current forest management. We must improve prescribed burning practice to accomplish at reasonable cost what no other treatment can provide on many sites. The job is to rationally develop…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chase
This note presents equations for calculating maximum spot fire distance from firebrand sources in the Intermountain West based on prevailing windspeed, vegetation cover, and terrain in the area. The equations include the capability to predict spotting distance from a torching…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Steward, Richard, O'Donnell
The rate of burning of wooden dowels injected into the centre of various test fires was determined by direct weighing. The curves giving the rate of burning vs. time of exposure are presented for dowels of length 88.9 mm and diameters ranging from 2.54 mm to 50.8 mm. Five types…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan, Rothermel
A site-specific fire behavior fuel modeling system being developed by the Fire behavior Research Work Unit at the Northern Forest Fire Laboratory, combines simplified field measurement techniques with computer-assisted fuel model development and testing. The fuel models will be…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carlson, Gay
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuquay
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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