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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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The silvicultural significance of geographic variation in the white Engelmann spruce complex in British Columbia

Roche
One hundred and sixty-two spruce provenances, representing allopatric and sympatric populations of white, Engelmann, and Sitka spruce in British Columbia were sown in a coastal nursery. Twelve of these provenances were randomized in four replications, two of which were of…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biotic provinces of the world: further development of a system for defining and classifying natural regions for purposes of conservation

[no description entered]
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A system to predict the occurrence of lighting-caused forest fires

Kourtz
The efficiency of aerial fire detection patrolling could be significantly improved if a reliable thunderstorm tracking and lighting fire prediction scheme were available. One method to determine the areas over which thunderstorms have passed requires the use of expensive…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Computerized fire weather forecasting in Atlantic Canada

Goldrup, Jordan
[no description entered]
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rhizina root rot: severity and distribution in British Columbia

Ginns
Rhizina undulata Fr. occurred on about one-third of the 160 logging sites sampled 1 year after each area was burned. Three years after burning, apothecia were rarely found. The fungus causes mortality of seedlings planted on burned sites. Severity of attack within a seedling…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Table speeds fire spread estimates

Cargill
Fire perimeters can be quickly estimated using a 'rate of spread/elapsed time' table. This eliminates the need for plotting the fire acreage in order to determine the perimeter of the fire, and control force requirements based on fire perimeter can be determined quicker.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Detection of thunderstorms from satellite imagery for forest fire control

Jayaweera, Ahlnas
The Very High Resolution Radiometer of NOAA-2 and -3 can successfully locate and identify thunderstorms. Since lightning fires account for more than 90 percent of the acreage burned by forest fires in Alaska, this imagery promises to be a useful tool for forest fire control.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS