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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alkhatib
Context. Apart from causing tragic loss of lives and valuable natural and individual properties including thousands of hectares of forest and hundreds of houses, forest fires are a great menace to ecologically healthy grown forests and protection of the environment. Every year,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
From the text ... 'The influence of fire on vegetation and on plant succession is coming under more scrutiny, and detailed research is appearing as never before from many agencies. The Forest and Range Experiment Stations of the Forest Service, along with cooperating agencies,…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stewart
From the text ... 'The historic records from around the world leave no room to doubt that primitive hunting and gathering peoples, as well as ancient farmers and herders, for a number of reasons, frequently and intentionally set fire to almost all the vegetation around them…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leopold, Cain, Cottam, Gabrielson, Kimball
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
Cutting shallow trenches with a bulldozer or giant plow achieves the three requisites for natural regeneration of cottonwood: a bare seedbed, removal of overstory other than seed trees, and freedom from weeds for at least a year.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fueno, Mukherjee, Ree, Eyring
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Laderman, Hecht, Stern, Oppenheim
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Calcote
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weinberg
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daubenmire, Prusso
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Diederichsen
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sokolik
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Powell, Taylor
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dimmock, Kineyko
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simms
Recent attempts to model the flow in very hot fire plumes where radiative transport of heat may significantly modify both the dynamics of the flow and the processes of combustion have met with only partial success. This paper gives an account of a model for the flow in a…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Berry, Ripperton
Emergence tipburn was observed in the field following recorded ozone concentrations as high as 6.5 pphm. Similar symptoms were produced on greenhouse plants using artificially produced oxidant at the same levels.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shelford
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lin, McCarty, Wang, Rogers, Morton, Collatz, Jin, Randerson
Fires in croplands, plantations, and rangelands contribute significantly to fire emissions in the United States, yet are often overshadowed by wildland fires in efforts to develop inventories or estimate responses to climate change. Here we quantified decadal trends, interannual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gaughan, Piacitelli, Chen, Law, Virji, Edwards, Enright, Schwegler-Berry, Leonard, Wagner, Kobzik, Kales, Hughes, Christiani, Siegel, Cox-Ganser, Hoover
Respiratory problems are common among wildland firefighters. However, there are few studies directly linking occupational exposures to respiratory effects in this population. Our objective was to characterize wildland fire fighting occupational exposures and assess their…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan, Sharples, Matthews, Plucinski
There is currently no fundamental understanding of the effects of topography on the behaviour of fires burning over a landscape. While a number of empirical models are employed operationally around the world, the effects of negative slopes on fire spread are ignored in all but…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strycker
From the text ... 'Noah Strycker's new book, 'The Thing with Feathers' provides a wonderful response to the relative who likes to remind you that you could have made more money working as an engineer. The inspiration the study of birds invokes may seem unusual to curmudgeonly…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Siegel
From the text ... 'Under the statute [Budget Control Act which Congress passed in 2011], when unpredictable events such as Hurricane Sandy are destructive enough to be declared disasters by the president, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is authorized to exceed its annual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS