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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Albini, Brown
Development of equations for prediciting fuel bed depth (called 'bulk depth' herein) appropriate for modeling fire behavior in slash is described. Bulk depth (y) was correlated with the expected number of 1/4-to 1-inch-diameter particle intercepts per foot of vertical plane…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey, Anderson
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shiplett, MacKinnon, Fischer, Neuenschwander
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dunn, DeBano
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gill
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Boster
Damage appraisal is the basis for fire-suppression decisions. Where timber is managed for production of maximum site rent, appraisal is a rather straightforward matter of applying standard financial criteria in a 'with and without' procedure. Where the aim is maximum mean annual…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans, Probasco
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bethea
From the text: 'In my opinion, professional foresters should be working much harder to get the facts across on prescribed burning because if we don't I feel forest management could suffer from restrictive rules or laws, both at the State and Federal level. There are still some…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Orr
'The control aspects of fire management from the hand raked fireline to the maintained firebreak can produce form, line, color & texture contrasts. Just as these contrasts can produce undesirable results, they can be used productively. It should be obvious by now that…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moore
It is now well established that fire plays an important part as a periodic disturbing influence on many of the forest types of North America. The species composition of such forests has undergone selection as a result of the regularity of fires during their history so that the…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sando
'Natural resource management is an important activity in our society. The conservation and current environmental movements have emphasized the importance of sound management of natural resources. While there may be significant potential gains for production of our renewable…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans
In a year of catastrophic wildland fires across the country, Alaska once again had the dubious honor of being host to the nation's largest wildland fire.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
A procedure for forecasting the 10-hour timelag fuel moisture was developed from the theory of diffusion in wood. Studies of fuel moisture processes relating meteorological variables, as an external force, to moisture exchange processes in wood are combined here to provide a…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Crosby
A set of value concepts and methods for appraising both values-at-risk and change in value resulting from wildfire are presented. Emphasis is placed on the effects of forest fires in terms of their affects on human and organization goal achievement. Fire effects that help…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Description not entered.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolff
Description not entered.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno
None provided
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lotan
Fire management is a much talked about subject these days, but a lot more people are talking about it than practicing it. Although the fire management concept grew out of our traditional fire control activities, significant changes in practice have been excruciatingly slow in…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zasada
Description not entered.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wong
The atmospheric input of carbon dioxide from burning wood, in particular from forest fires in boreal and temperate regions resulting from both natural and man-made causes and predominantly from forest fires in tropical regions caused by shifting cultivation, is estimated to be 5…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff
Productivity and utilization of browsed and unbrowsed Scouler willow (Salix scoulerina) was measured in a 1971 burn and in an adjacent 70-year-old mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forest. Production of available willow browse in the burn increased from 8 kg/ha in 1973 to 22.6…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
West
Livetrapping in black spruce (Picea mariana) taiga 60 km north of Fairbanks, Alaska, during 1972-1973 revealed that the dispersion pattern of the capture points for a population of northern red-backed voles varied greatly with season. The population was distributed without…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
Some theory and observations are presented on the factors governing the start and spread of crown fire in conifer forests. Crown fires are classified in three ways according to the degree of dependence of the crown phase of the fire on the ground surface phase. The crown fuel is…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tiedemann, Helvey, Anderson
During the first 3 years after a severe wildfire in 1970, maximum concentrations of nitrate-N (NO3-N) in stream water increased from prefire levels of <0.016 to 0.$6 mg/liter on a burned, unfertilized watershed and to 0.54 and 1.47 mg/liter on two watersheds that were burned…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, James
In a series of prescribed burns of low intensity and short duration in southern Ontario, wind speed, amount of fuel, and fuel moisture were important environmental controls of fire severity. A heterogenous pattern of burning, related to clumping in the vegetation and to a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES