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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hamilton, Salazar, Palmer
Controlling wildfires within the wildland/urban interface has proven to be the most complex challenge facing wildland fire agencies. Although program improvements to increase the efficiency of interface suppression efforts have been suggested, the availability of information…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldrup, Jordan
[no description entered]
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cooper
Prescribed burning is a preferred treatment in many fuel management situations because of its low cost, campatibility with other land-use objectives, and little or not undesirable side effects. The problems, limitations, and associated consequences of fire treatments are…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Conniff
'One year ago, the still-smoldering park was a disaster zone. Today, the complicated process of regeneration is well under way.'
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen, Agee, Brussard, Hughes, Knight, Minshall, Peek, Pyne, Swanson, Wells, Thomas, Williams, Wright
From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Uman
From the text (p.430) ... 'The primary purposes of this paper are to convey to the reader some feeling for the history of lightning research, a general idea of how lightning 'works', some quantitative data regarding its physical parameters, and information on how these are…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the text (p.422) ... 'That lightning can effect trees in diverse ways has been recorded for a long time and in fact, also occurs in the early mythology of man. However,the serious scientific study of these effects on various plants and animals has been very sporadic and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil, Silversides
An inexpensive and simple technique for measuring the average wind velocity in the lower 600 m of the atmosphere is proposed. The technique uses 30-g pilot balloons filled with helium. Final position of the balloon is measured by a clinometer and a compass--instruments which are…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryabukha
Discusses various practical measures to prevent the spread of fire on forest peat bogs already drained or to be drained. These measures include reduction of the depth or frequency of the drains; the use of sluice-gates to regulate the flow; and the creation of 'dams' across the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Litwin
Wet and dry bulb temperatures from ventilated and non-ventilated screens can be used to obtain realistic values of relative humidity provided the appropriate psychometric coefficient is used. However, relative humidity from non-ventilated screens are subject to significant error…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Methven, Murray
'...Thus the use of fire in mature red and white pine stands has been demonstrated to have definite potential for the control of balsam fir and the establishment of white pine regeneration, whether the management objective is purely commercial or also involves recreational and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doan, Martell
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wolf
This article examines the role of the concept of financially profitable forestry in early agency thinking. It discusses the use of profit as a ground for creating the Forest service to manage the nation's forest reserves, and the continual efforts of the Service, after its…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram, Nelson
Buoyancy production rates for a pure heat source and for a fire heat source of burning woody fuels show that fire may be regarded as pure source yielding heated air rather than heated combustion products.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ginns
Rhizina undulata Fr. occurred on about one-third of the 160 logging sites sampled 1 year after each area was burned. Three years after burning, apothecia were rarely found. The fungus causes mortality of seedlings planted on burned sites. Severity of attack within a seedling…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Countryman
[no description entered]
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradley
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS), a 'new generation' knowledge management tool, is designed to store and provide easy user access to state-of-the knowledge information on the effects of fire and general ecology of plant species and communities. System software was…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Weaver
Within Whitebark pine's (Pinus albicaulis) relatively narrow zone of occurrence - the highest elevations of tree growth from California and Wyoming north in British Columbia and Alberta -- this species is a member of diverse plant communities. This paper summarizes studies from…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Roussopoulos
In testing accuracy of the planar intersect method, bias due to nonhorizontal orientation of woody particles ranged from 8 to 39 percent. Bias due to the use of arithmetic average diameters instead of quadratic mean diameters for solving volume equations ranged from 9 to 16…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacDeonald, Loope, Usher, Hamann
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Trottier, Carbyn, Scotter
Relative abundance of small mammals was monitored in an area of aspen parkland burned periodically in spring or fall over eight years to control trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) encroachment into grassland meadows. Seven small mammal species were trapped on the…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
[no description entered]
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McEneaney
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klaus
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS