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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Quirk, Sykes
In a south-facing subbasin of Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, several mature white spruce stringers, apparent relics of extensive stands that have escaped fires, were studied.Tree-ring investigations show that the mature spruce stringers have remained fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reifsnyder
From the text ... 'One area where great strides can be made is in the climatology of fire weather and its application to fire planning. Recent advances have been made in application of climatology to agriculture, and many of the same principles can be applied to forest fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cayford
From the Discussion ... 'It has been shown that a number of research foresters have investigated the use of prescribed burning as a technique for regenerating cut-over jack pine stands and, in general, results have been very promising. However, it has also been shown that…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierovich
Fire management demands that we (1) mke the best use of whatis known to us, (2) add to our knowledge, (3) assess the possibilites andd the probabilities offuture events, (4) obtain meaningful pulic choices.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text... 'The final conclusion was, then that for the type of slash studied there is no need to adjust the slash hazard index for exposure through that part of the fire season when wildfires are more likely to occur but, if the ratings are to be used as guides in fall…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson
Between 1961 and 1963 two balsam fir cutovers were burned under low fire hazard conditions. The treatment eliminated practically all balsam fir advance growth and reduced the quantity of slash and other debris. The reduction was considered sufficient to facilitate the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harpster, Douglas
'...Whether in controlling the buildup index or in supressing fires once they are in progress, the techniques of weather modification must be considered -- at least at this point in their development -- as a potential supplement to other fire control techniques already in use.'
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
'Fuel moistures are among the most important environmental factors required in fire danger rating evaluations. Direct observations of fuel moisture such as with fuel sticks or other analog devices are desirable for evaluation of the current fire danger because they integrate all…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loman
In an investigation to determine the fungal flora of lodgepole pine logging slash and the growth rates and decaying ablilities of the principal fungi in vitro as contrasted with conditions in nature, four hymenomycetes were isolated consistently and proved to cause most of the…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson, Dell
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg, Deeming
Procedures for calculating the moisture contents of 1- and 10-hour timelag fuels have been developed based on theoretical calculations of the rate of moisture transport in wood. The 1 -hour timelag calculation is superior to fine fuel moisture calculations developed previously…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wilson, Dell
Today more than a billion acres of forest and rangeland in the United States are managed under some form of organized fire protection. On much of this wildland, there is a buildup of flammable fuels that under critical burning conditions can feed disastrous forest fires. The…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogl
...fire has been generally misrepresented. It is a neglected factor in many forests. Fire needs public understanding and acceptance. We should compare fire's beneficial effects to its well-known detrimental effects before we dismiss all fire as bad, and all wood smog as…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro
Mensurational parameters of a range of lodgepole pine stands were correlated with loading of individual fuel components and the total fuel complex. Except for the aerial fuel components consisting of dead complex were considered inadequate for the modern fire control…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
The purposes of this study are to: 1. provide burning prescriptions for hazard reduction; 2. determine if burning will improve planting-crew efficiency by reducing the physical barrier of slash accumulations; 3. evaluate the effect of burning on reversal of site deterioration by…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deeming
Regardless of what meaning a user attaches to fire-danger ratings the expected fire behavior is the common base on which any interpretation ultimately depends. In order for a fire-danger rating system to be useful, it must accurately and consistently predict the basic aspects of…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Noste
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flieger
[from the text] The long-time role of fire in the forests of eastern Canada is masked, I believe, by the history of Canadian forest management in the exploitive years since 1920. There is now more forest land occupied by Industry -- mainly the Pulp and Paper Industry -- than…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Comiskey
In 1967, the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska began producing isoline maps of buildup index by hand on a daily basis. These maps proved to be operationally valuable. In 1969, it was proposed that the isoline maps and other fire-danger ratings be produced by machine. By the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fosberg
Numerical simulation of dead fuel behavior under different climatological regimes has quantified three universal characteristics of fuels: (1) response of the fuel to climatological moisture-induced stress; (2) response of the outer layers of the fuel to both standard drying…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS