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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Susott
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hibbert
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anonymous
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viereck, Foote, Dyrness, Van Cleve, Kane, Seifert
Four units totaling 1 hectare in area were burned during the summer of 1976 in the Washington Creek experimental fire site near Fairbanks, Alaska. Original vegetation on the site consisted of an unevenly spaced stand of black spruce approximately 70 years old, with an understory…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vogl
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gill
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harvey, Jurgensen, Larsen
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Snyder
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hobbs, Currall, Gimingham
From the Summary ... '(1) The use of heat-sensitive materials to study temperatures in vegetation fires is reviewed. (2) A pyrometer using 'Thermocolor* paints on mica strips is described and a calibration is given for heath fire conditions. (3) A method of data presentation is…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
Natural disturbances have been traditionally defined in terms of major catastrophic events originating in the physical environment and, hence, have been regarded as exogenous agents of vegetation change. Problems with this view are: (1) there is a gradient from minor to major…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
An increase in the use of prescribed fire as a forest management tool is anticipated in Ontario where its use is viewed as a viable method of site preparation for regeneration purposes. Literature available on prescribed burning in the jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) logging…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the Conclusion: 'The ultimate justification for conducting research on forest fire is a) that it is a complex natural phenomenon with both physical and biological dimensions, b) that it can only be described and understood through scientific investigation, c) that it…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mohr
From the text: 'This technique uses a form for recording and displaying prescription fire data. Measured environmental elements and observed fire behavior are consolidated on one page.'
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
From the text: 'In summary, the coupling of a burning prescription which could deliver adequate fire intensity with gelled gasoline helitorch ignition to overcome some of the fuel arrangement and topographic problems resulted in a generally successful rehabilitation effort at…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Denney
From the text: 'Remember, an aluma-gel mix can 'make or break' a helitorch operation. It is suggested for the inexperienced to invite someone knowledgeable to assist on the heliport and aid in training your mixing crew. Timing is very important. It takes practice for a mixing…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Text: 'Recent spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) infestations have resulted in widespread areas of balsam fir (Abies balsamea [L.] Mill) mortality in Ontario and interest in converting these areas back into productive forest by the use of a tramping following by a…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Text: 'Eleven experimental burns were conducted in the Kapuskasing District of the northern Clay Belt Region in Ontario for the period 1979-1983. The test fires, using strip headfires for ignition, were used to study the fire behavior in boreal mixedwood slash fuel complexes as…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen, Ryan
Text: 'The organic mantle of the forest floor acts as a barrier to heat transport down into the mineral soil. This study compares the temperatures experienced in a surrogate mineral soil (sand) with and without an organic mantle (peat moss) covering the mineral soil. Different…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simmerman
From the text: 'This poster display illustrates the current development of a classification of fuels in aspen forests. Fuels and flammability vary considerably within the aspen and mixed aspen/conifer forest types depending upon plant community type, grazing influence, and…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS