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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Skarra
From the text ... 'The application of prescribed burning techniques on Indian reservations ... has been accomplished under approved programs for many years.' © 1969, Tall Timbers Research, Inc. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
From the Discussion ... 'This paper has dealt with the lightning effects and influences that cause primary concern in protection of the forest complex -- forest fire, mortality, injury, and damage from insects and diseases. Although it was written within the framework of…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyon
From the text ... 'Wildlife in the northern Rocky Mountains, as elsewhere, is a resource produced by land and vegetation....Wildlife populations, for example, have fluctuated over the past half century in direct response to the development of forest vegetation. These changes…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Handley
From the text ... 'In the definition of ecological factors important to mammals fire usually has not been ranked with temperature, moisture, or light, or even with soil, shelter, or seasonality. However, fire and fire perpetuated environments, such as grasslands, have been of…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sando, Dobbs
From the Introduction: 'It is only recently, however, that prescribed burning has been introduced in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and, consequently, relatively few peple in these provinces are experienced in its use. It is for this reason that this note has been prepared-to serve…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Webb
From the Summary:'Some of the characteristics of areal rainfall have been examined for the purposes of assessing the extent to which a point observation is representative of whether or not an area has received rain. Only summer rainfall data were considered, the season during…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the text:'This article reports a laboratory attempt to measure the combined effects of sun and wind on surface temperature, and to test the form that a predictive equation should take. The general approach was suggested by some previous research on this question, which is…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Storey, Carder, Tolin, Storey, Carder, Tolin
From the text:'This paper compares INFROMAP with other information assembly and display systems, describes the concept and basic charcteristics of the system, explains how it may be used in fire planning and fire control, and considers the outlook for its future developement.'
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wodley
A typical gas chromatogram of the volatile pyrolysis products (molecular weights less than 150) of untreated a-cellulose contains 39 peaks, however, mass spectral data indicate that at least 59 compounds are present. Since the initial pyrolysis products undergo decomposition,…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chandler
From the summary ... ' In summary, the results of these large scale fire tests, conducted under marginal burning conditions, were negative; but, paradoxically, I find this very heartening, for we can now be much more confident in our predictions of fire behavior to be expected…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Korovin
From the text ... 'The main task of the study of the nature of forest fires is to obtain quantitative characteristics which make it possible from known conditions of development of the fire to determine its basic parameters at each moment of time. The perimeter of the fire, its…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fowler
A simple device for indicating maximum windspeed during a time interval is described. Use of a unijunction transistor, for voltage sensing, results in a stable comparison circuit and also reduces overall component requirements. Measurement is presented digitally in 1-mile-per…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Telfer
Prediction equations arc presented for use in estimating total aboveground weight and maximum leaf weight for 22 species of woody plants. Stem diameter at the ground line was found to be closely correlated with both total and leaf weights. This diameter was therefore used in the…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Savage, Martin, Letey
Eight species of fungi isolated from a water repellent soil were incubated for varying periods of time in silica sand. In their latter stages of growth. two of the fungi, Aspergillus Sidowi and Penicillium nigricans, caused limited water repellency in the sand. All the fungal…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
This paper analysizes wind speed and direction distributions obtained at nine forestry stations and nine airports across Canada. The effect of differences in the distributions on forest fire danger rating is discussed. The major finding is that forestry stations have a…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pech
Seven composite samples of western red cedar and western hemlock logging slash of 0.25 to 2 inches diameter were exposed on top of and within the bottom third of a fuel bed in the interior wet belt of British Columbia in August 1965. Their moisture contents were measured…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potts
Interest has increased recently in the use of herbicides to control woody plants on land intended for timber production. This increase in interest is due in part to: (1) the introduction of more versatile and more maneuverable woodland equipment such as the skidder tractor, (2)…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
The Sundance Fire and its impressive run were not due to any new phenomena but the combination of several important factors. Extremely dry fuels and favourable weather conditions existed at the time; the atmospheric winds increased steadily thorughout the day, and the fire did…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Khan, Laude
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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett, Barghoorn, Berger
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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beaufait, Fischer
Fire managers require 24-hour records of temperature, relative humidity, and windspeed to use fire efficiently and effectively. When carefully calibrated and interpreted, modified hygrothermographs provide minimum instrumentation to obtain these records. An actual case of record…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Philpot
Diethyl ether and acetone were used to reduce the extractive content of aspen leaves. The leaves were burned in 0.5-ft^2 baskets and the weight loss rate was recorded. A direct relationship between extractive content and burning rate was found. This relationship emphasizes the…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Hardy
This Note published data on flame retardants in use at the time.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Hellman
A combined theoretical and experimental study has been performed of the behaviour of firebrands in a turbulent, swirling natural convection plume. For the theoretical treatment, firebrands were idealized as spheres of constant density, the burning rate a constant for each type…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES