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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Schroeder, Buck
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burbank
From the text: 'I want to stress one last point. Equipment developers, such as my organization, need your cooperation in defining or, more importantly, identifying your major problems. You, Fire Control managers, have the field problems which must be solved, not us. Too often we…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wambach
From the text...'Let me over-simplify (or overstate) my argument to make my point. Foresters have tended to identify only two types of fires: (1) wildfires, which are bad and should be prevented or put out expeditiously, and (2) prescribed fires, which are good and should be…
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
Ffolliott
Fire, either as a natural occurrence or a management tool, can have beneficial effects on the environment, and its use offers opportunities for reducing fuel loads, disposing of slash, preparing seedbeds, thinning stands, increasing herbaceous plant production, increasing…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniel
Obstacles to public acceptance of prescribed fire include misunderstanding of fire in forest ecosystems, concerned risk to life and property and assumed adverse effects on scenic and recreation values. Increased appreciation of the ecological, safety (fuel reduction) and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
Forest industry involvement in wildfire protection reduces fire risk and potential economic losses. This paper highlights Weldwood's Hinton Division involvement and goals towards wildfire control and management as a Forest Management Agreement (FMA) operator. Fire control…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey
Because of the natural and social amenities offered by suburban and rural living, more and more people are moving to wildland environments. The combination of people, homes, flammable vegetation, and dry weather conditions is increasing the annual losses from wildland fires and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Cortner, Taylor, Carpenter, Cleaves
Fire managers from five western regions of the USDA Forest Service were surveyed to determine which decision factors most strongly influenced their fire-risk behavior. Three fire-decision contexts were tested: Escaped Wildfire, Prescribed Burning, and Long-Range Fire Budget…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cargill
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Eenigenburg
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stevens
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, George
Laboratory studies of fire retardant corrosion have been conducted on four alloys commonly used in air and ground tankers and mixing plants. All currently used retardants met Forest Service specifications and requirements, but with considerable variations in performance.…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blakely
Water alone was the principal agent reducing flaming combustion to smoldering combustion; adding chemical retardant contributed only a slight additional reduction. Water alone was significantly less effective than chemical mixtures in reducing final energy release rates and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Johnson
Describes procedures for applying the measured flow history of water or fire retardant from an airtanker and, with the aid of a model (PATSIM), developing a guide for attaining optimum retardant distribution from a specific airplane and tanking system. Text and drawings are…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder, Buck
[Excerpt from text] The fire weather occurring on a particular day is a dominant factor in the fire potential for that day. Fire climate well may be thought of as the synthesis of daily fire weather over a long period of time, is a dominant factor in fire control planning.…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cortner, Gardner, Taylor
Urban-wildland issues have become among the most contentious and problematic issues for forest managers. Using data drawn from surveys conducted by the authors and others, this article discusses how public knowledge and perceptions of fire policies and fire hazards change over…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Paananen, Doolittle, Donoghue
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch
Recent wildland fires in Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and the United States have been threatening people and natural resources with increasing severity. The May 1987 wildfire in northeastern China, for example, reportedly burned more than 2…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: 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