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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Van Wagner
A series of graphs, tables and maps are presented that form the basis of a revised fire control plan at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station. Called aids to fire control planning, they are classified into those describing: (a) the pattern of fire weather, (b) the trends in…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro
From the text:'Fuel type maps were once considered to be an integral tools of Forest Protection Organization. In western national forests of the United States where access was limited, fuel conditions diverse, and peak fire loads frequent, the necessity for decision-making tool…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radley
From the text:'The peat in many parts of Britain is being severly eroded by subaerial forces, but the fire provides a method of erosion not previously emphasized. It removes whole tracts of peat and plant cover in a matter of days and permits intensive erosion for several years…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the introduction:'The purpose of this project is to measure the energy production of forest fires and how it is dissipated. If the use of energy output -rate is ever to become accepted as a means of describing forest fires, a simple method must be available, requiring…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The earth itself: a 'good piece of geography' is basic - from there on, its a matter of human wisdom
From the text ... 'To demonstrate what can be accomplished through modern management when the lands are concentrated enough to be manageable, BLM last year began a Resource Conservation Area Program. The so-called :RCA's' were established on some 85 public land bundles, ranging…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wells
Nonriparian woodlands occur on escarpments and other topographic break throughout the grassland province of central North America. Grassland vegetation is mainly correlated with gently sloping or flat terrain mantled by deep, transported soils of Pleistocene or younger age.…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knight
Studies were made in 1955-62 in an old-growth Hemlock fir stand to determine the effects of logging (a) and logging plus slash burning (b) on soil-moisture trends, soil erosion, soil chemical properties, soil micro-organisms, and tree growth, and of the effect of volatilization…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Broido
This paper describes the initial thermal radiation and fire effects of a nuclear detonation - a subject with which the author has had some experience. It will then discuss some ecological consequences of fire - a subject for which the author's primary qualification is a complete…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Benninghoff
In this paper the kinds of particulate matter of plant origin that can be potentially contributed to the atmosphere are grouped in an expedient classifiction, described in general terms, and evaluated with respect to occurrence and viability above the lowest levels of the…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Granfelt
'...That man contributed (and continues to contribute) to the incidence of fires on the Great Plains cannot be denied, but the role of lightning should not be overlooked or slighted.'
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loman
'This paper reports on laboratory tests that show variable lethal effects of sustained high temperatures on the mycelium of the four main decayers of lodgepole pine slash. For puposes of the eaperiment, S.sanguinolentum and C. puteana were regarded as low temperature fungi, and…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pechanec, Plummer, Robertson, Hull
In planning for sagebrush control, the following items should be considered: (1) Where, (2) when, (3) how, (4) grazing management afterward, and (5) the need for regrassing afterward. The purpose of this bulletin is to make information on these items available for use by…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gould
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Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goodman
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Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Welker, Pipkin, Sliepcevich
A simplified and improved correlation for the drag coefficient of windblown natural gas flames is given. Experimental results leading to the correlation were obtained in a low-speed wind tunnel specifically designed for such studies at the University of Oklahoma North Campus.
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Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Nielsen-Pincus
Wildfire management requires significant institutional organization, a skilled workforce, facilities, and equipment. Sustaining this wildfire response capacity is critical to both agencies and fire-affected communities. Because fire suppression is seasonal and varies…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
America's tremendous asset base of protected areas is critical for conservation planning, natural resource management, recreation, public health and more. These include national parks and forests, wildlife sanctuaries, state beaches and parks, county open space, city parks, land…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Hopper
Dominique Bachelet, Conservation Biology Institute, and Dave Hopper, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, discussed the need for reliable, usable tools and data sources to meet climate change-related land management challenges. The combination of projected climate change and land use…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Gallacher
Wildland fire behavior research in the last 100 years has largely focused on understanding the physical phenomena behind fire spread and on developing models that can predict fire behavior. Research advances in the areas of live-fuel combustion and combustion modeling have…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
As a predictable part of many ecosystems, natural disturbances like fire have exerted strong evolutionary pressures on plants. One noteworthy example is the highly fire-prone California chaparral. High intensity crown fires have selected for two different life history strategies…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ultimately, future climate changes are expected to result in dramatically altered fire regimes. However, forecasting such altered fire regimes requires a better understanding of the more proximate drivers, particularly in the case of abrupt fire regime changes. In the case of…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Fletcher, Mahalingam, McAllister, Shotorban, Jolly
Effect of moisture content and heat flux type on ignition of foliage from 10 live fuels was examined over the course of a year using two apparatuses: a flat-flame burner coupled with a radiant panel and a Forced Ignition and flame Spread Test (FIST) apparatus. Results of the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinne, Miller, Parisien, Emelko, Bladon, Silins, Flannigan
Wildfires are keystone components of natural disturbance regimes that maintain ecosystem structure and functions, such as the hydrological cycle, in many parts of the world. Consequently, critical surface freshwater resources can be exposed to post-fire effects disrupting their…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hand, Thompson, Calkin
Increasing costs of wildfire management have highlighted the need to better understand suppression expenditures and potential tradeoffs of land management activities that may affect fire risks. Spatially and temporally descriptive data is used to develop a model of wildfire…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Weise, Fletcher, Jolly, Mahalingam, McAllister, Shotorban
After many years of research examining the ignition of wood and other cellulosic fuels, it is still unclear which modes of heat transfer will result in successful ignition of live wildland fuel particles. Thermal radiation can cause a fuel particle to pyrolyze to produce a…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES