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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Brown, Murphy
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rehfeldt
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Steuter
The post-glacial evolution of North American Mixed Prairie was influenced by the physical process of fire and the biological process of bison (Bison bison) grazing. These disturbances interacted with aboveground herbaceous production being the primary fuel and forage. The fire…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deeming
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fryer, Johnson
(1)The behaviour of the August 1936 Galatea fire in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains was reconstructed with respect to the rate of spread, frontal-fire intensity and fuel consumption, and illustrates that tree mortality, seed dispersal distance into the burn and…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell, Fullerton
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nelson, Adkins
Data for the behavior of 59 experimental wind-driven fires were extracted from the literature for use in determining a correlation among several variables known to influence the rate of forest fire spread. Also included in the correlation were unpublished data from six field…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan, Hartford
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the introduction:'This Technical Note is an attempt to summarize what has been done in a number of areas of the world to provide adequate forecasts of fire danger in terms of past, present and forecast weather conditions. It is not intended to be complete operational manual…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Webster, Raftery
In flames produced by freely burning fuel, buoyancy may play an important role in determining the speed of the gases in the flame zone and hence the flame height. Measurements have been made of the height of flames from burning cribs of wood on a square horizontal base and a few…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boychuk, Martell
A model was developed to help resolve the decision of how many fire fighters a large forest fire management agency should hire for a fire season to minimize expected cost plus fire loss. It addresses the use of fire fighters for both initial and extended attack, the temporary…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradshaw
The problem of fire protection in the urban/wildland interface is a complex combination of three components: fire behavior and combustion, social and political factors, and the cooperation of property owners. By examing the problem's component parts, it is easier to understand…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delisle, Woodard, Titus, Johnson
This study assessed the variability of sample estimates for downed and dead woody fuel weight in natural lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl) stands using line-intersect sampling procedures. Equilateral triangles (30 m/side) were established at each of 40 sample sites with…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fenton
[no description entered]
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Matthiessen
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruce, Pong, Fons
A program of research on free-burning wood fires is being conducted by the Forest Service to build up experimental data on the properties of such fires, with the iltimate objective of describing the physical phenomena in terms of fundamental laws. Density was the first wood…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fons
The U.S. Forest Service has started a laboratory study with the ultimate objective of determining model laws for fire behavior. The study includes an examination of the effect of such variables as species of wood, density of wood, moisture content, size of fuel particle, spacing…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan
The 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System does not work well in the humid environment of the Eastern United States. System modifications to correct problems and their operational impact on System users are described. A new set of 20 fuel models is defined and compared…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Phillips, George, Nelson
Presents current (1988) fireline production rates for bulldozers, by size of machine, fuel type, slope, and site conditions. Includes nomograms and a master table for estimating production rates. Describes how data were collected and production rates were calculated.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fons, Bruce, Pong
A laboratory study was set up by the U.S. Forest Service with the ultimate objective of determining model laws for properties of wood fires, including rate of spread. This is a report of the first phase of the work, the development of a suitable bed of solid fuel and the…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
This report represents a compilation and classification of nearly all the available written information on the CFFDRS. Plans call for a 20-year (1969-1988) annotated bibliography of CFFDRS literature to be issued as a CFS Forestry Technical Report in 1989. The present…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS