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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Kiil
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Philpot
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
From the text... 'An ideal forest fire detection system would detect fires the instant they start, day or night, under any condition of visibility. Additionally, it could distinguish potentially dangerous fires from those that would not concern fire suppression forces. Although…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jin
From the summary:'Experimental study on the visibility through fire smoke was carried out. The relation among the brightness of sign, visual distance, and the extinction coefficient of smoke at the instant of obscuration threshold was obtained by using the smoke chamber. The…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
A study of the effects of exposure (aspect and slope angle) and natural shade on the moisture content of Douglas fir logging slash indicates that, throughout most of the fire season, such effects are not great enough to be of practical significance in slash hazard rating. In the…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moore
From the text: 'Obviously an extremely professional task of development, research and management looms ahead. Moreover, to manage land and protect its resources in the true public interest requires involvement of an informed citizenry in many managerial and policy decisions.…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDowell
From the text...'But we must be concerned with all the products of our forest lands and the successful forest manager will be aware of the tools and techniques that optimize integrated uses. This must be done in the long range view. Thus, we must know more about fire and our…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hayes
From the text...'In closing I should emphasize that purposeful use of fire has not yet had much impact on western forest ecosystems. It is rapidly developing an impact on some ponderosa pine lands, however, notably some Indian lands managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
Costs and effectiveness of fire control, need for hazard reduction, slash disposal policy, history of slash burning, opportunities for prescribed burning, as well as fire effects, costs and benefits are described breifly. Most attention is given to the Vancouver Forest District…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
Moisture content, owing to its direct effect on flammability of forest fuels, must be incorporated into a fire danger rating system. Accurate indicators of moisture content in different fuels are particularly important when separate burning tables are required for major fuel…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bell, Van Wagner
In the open, the Xerometer readings bore almost no relation to the fuel moisture content, probably because the element is too well sheltered from the sun. Since it appears to be but marginally better than relative humidity as a measure of moisture content in the shade, we…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg, Lancaster, Schroeder
Standard drying conditions in the laboratory have been related to the diurnal fluctuations of temperature and humidity to define a standard drying day for forest fuels. The mean equilibrium moisture content of a fuel on a standard drying day is slightly different from the…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Countryman
Mass fires are being investigated through a series of large-scale test fires. Preliminary results indicate: (a) air flow patterns that create eddies can result in fire vortices when fires is present; (b) the lower part of the convection column consists of a series of small…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram, Martin
The fire whirlwind, an erratic and violent phenomenon associated with the behavior of intense fires, may generate velocities comparable to those reached in tornadoes. All the conditions essential to the formation of fire whirlwinds can be readily produced in the laboratory on a…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
Field personnel in all forest fire protection agencies need some simple but reasonably accurate method for evaluating severity of the fire season as it progresses and of comparing severity of the current season with that of preceding fire seasons. This paper proposes use of…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder, Glovinsky, Hendricks, Hull, Jacobson, Krueger, Mallory, Oertel, Reese, Sergius, Syverson
Mass fires are likely to spread rapidly and burn intensely when strong winds are combined with low humidities and high temperatures, particularly after a rainless period. To identify synoptic weather types that create such periods of critical fire weather, the 48 contiguous…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kiil, Chrosciewicz
Forest fires have played an important role in determining the type and composition of forest ecosystems in the temperate region of North America. The close association between fires and forest ecosystems has helped the resource manager to interpret the significance of fire in…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyon, Pengelly
Dr. Behan has suggested that the minerals removed in timber harvest and otherwise lost might be replaced by direct fertilization which would also increase tree growth. There are some unanswered questions in this area that probably need clarification, It has been shown, for…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lotspeich, Mueller, Frey
From objectives (page 13): 'Objectives of the study were: (1) to develop sufficient understanding of the effects of forest fires on water quality of Alaskan streams so that it may be possible to make rational decisions for allocating manpower and funds for controlling specific…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS