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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bevins, Roussopoulos
In this paper, we offer a general overview of the design and status of the NFIL. We discuss the structure of the Fuels Inventory Database, the function of the various database management programs available in the Management Software Package, and the current contents of the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell, Christophersen
The burning prescription is an integral part of the silvicultural prescription. Writing these prescriptions for site preparation objectives involves close coordination between the fire manager and silviculturist. A negotiating period during the sale planning process is necessary…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Der Toorn, Mook
'The performance of common reed, Phragmites australis, was determined in an experimental field over a period of 5 yr. The aim of this study was to establish the effects of various environmental agents that cause damage to the reed. The direct influence of the different kinds of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Routledge
Because standard methods for computing the optimal rotation age of a forest stand assume complete knowledge of the stand value at any future time, a forest manager must treat his estimates of future value as if they were completely accurate. Minor, unpredictable fluctuations…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sackett
'A recently developed instrument to be used operationally by a variety of industries and disciplines may significantly shorten the time needed to determine dead and live fuel moisture for those people trying to predict prescribed or wildfire behavior and effects. It can be used…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
Every wildland fire control organization in North America relies on assistance from outside agencies during periods of extreme fire severity.In some cases interagency cooperation is formalized, as in the Northeast Forest Fire Compact or the Boise Interagency Fire Center. In…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
The author presents a brief overview of current and potential future applications of computer technology in forest fire management. Problems commonly associated with the implementation of computer-based fire management decision-making aids are discussed together with comments…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mollner, Olsen
The Automated Fire Weather Forecast (AFWF) is a computer program designed to forecast seven of the eight fire weather forecast parameters issued daily during the fire weather season at the Boise Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO). The program uses Limited Fine Mesh (LFM)…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Podzimek, Carstens, Yue
The basic thermodynamical processes leading to the formation of droplets in the central part of the Nolan-Pollak counter are analyzed in some detail. The comparison of the UMR-Absolute Aitken Nuclei counter with Nolan-Pollak, General Electric and Gardner counters showed…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parlar, Vickson
In this paper we re-examine the problem of optimal forest fire suppression which was previously studied by Parks. The growth of the fire is modelled by a deterministic differential equation in which the level of the suppression forces appears as a control variable. After…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roussopoulos, Yancik, Radloff
'We have developed a prototype National Fire Occurrence Data Library (NF0DL) to help fire managers interact with resource managers in meeting the new planning requirements of the Resources Planning Act and the National Forest Management Act. The data library provides means for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Karl, Koscielny
'Statewide averages of temperature and precipitation, from January l895 to April 1981, were intepolated to a grid and Palmer Drought Severity Indices (PDSI) calculated for each of the grid points. Principal component (PC) analysis was performed on the gridded values of PDSI. By…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gardiner
'...With the aid of modern laboratory techniques it is possible to detect not only the end products of combustion proccsses but also many substances that appear transiently in the course of burning. As a result fire has come to be understood chemically as an intricate network of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'The outcome of the Southern Forestry Education Campaign was much less devisive. To begin with, its subject was not the internal distribution of agency funds but the promotion of fire protection as a concept. Nor was it concerned with the question of transient…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'But with the advent of fire protection in the South, game birds decreased much as pasturage had and as grouse populations had in Britain. The vegetative ensemble that sustained maximum populations gave way to roughage and woods. By 1923 hunting plantations in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'It is often assumed that the American Indian was incapable of greatly modifying his environment and that he would not have been much interested in doing so if he did have the capabilities. In fact, he possessed both the tool and the will to use it. That tool…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Omi, Laven
The existing literature on wildland fire is assessed in terms of both the biological and social impacts of prescription fire on recreational wildlands. Gaps in the literature are noted and future areas of needed research are suggested, with particular emphasis on the Rocky…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
George
Operational parameters for an S2F airtanker were monitored on a series of wildland fires to verify previous assumptions concerning typical flight envelopes. Results confirmed the validity of the procedure and instrumentation used in obtaining real-time aircraft drop height,…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arianoutsou, Diamantopoulos, Margaris
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cole, Jensen
Interaction models for the dominant crown class were developed for estimating average height to base of crown (crown height) and average crown length (depth) as a function of stand density and average height of dominant trees - for even-aged lodgepole pine stands in Montana,…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gessaman, Worthen
This volume contains abstracts, indexes of species and geographical locations, and key words in the titles of more than 220 publications that describe some aspect of the effect of weather on avian mortality.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carleton, Maycock
Results from an extensive vegetation survey of 197 boreal forest stands, encompassing a full spectrum of succession and site types in the regions of Ontario and Quebec south of James Bay, are reported. Non-centered principal component analysis plus varimax rotation (nodal…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey, Anderson
Soil surface temperatures averaged 186, 398 and 393 C for grass, shrub and forest communities, respectively. Higher temperatures were associated with head fires, more fuel and with woody fuels. Temperatures in headfires were higher but more variable than in backfires for the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maass
A single thallus of Erioderma pedicellatum has been found in Newfoundland near one of the 2 North American localities known thus far for this unusual lichen. Whereas almost all of the other species of the genus have tropical to subtropical affinities in their distribution and…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Archibold
Seed traps were installed at seven sites along a transect in a burned mixedwood forest site in northern Saskatchewan to determine annual seed inputs. The seeds were returned to the laboratory for germination and identification. A total of 1698 seeds was collected in the 1977-…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS