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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Long-term effects of fire on the composition and activity of the soil microflora of a subalpine, coniferous forest

Bissett, Parkinson
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire hazard appraisal in pre-commercially thinned stands of British Columbia coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine

Hawkes, Lawson
Fuel complexes resulting from power-saw spacing in young coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine stands were quantitatively assessed for loading and duration of hazard. Fuel appraisal data were combined with fire weather regimes to derive fire behavior predictions for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of season and frequency of burning on a phryganic rangeland in Greece

Papanastasis
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Logging residue as an energy source

Granthan, Howard
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Thermal behavior of conifer needle extractives

Susott
Thermal generation of combustible vapors has been measured up to 500°C for green Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and lodgepole pine foliage. The relative contributions to combustible products are given for ether, benzene-ethanol, and total extractives, as well as for holocellulose…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Indian fires of spring

Lewis
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Estimating duff moisture from meteorological measurements

Frandsen, Bradshaw
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Downed woody fuel accumulations in northern region forests

See, Brown
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

When it's hot, it's hot ... or maybe it's not! (surface flaming may not portend extensive soil heating)

Hartford, Frandsen
Fire effects on aplant community, soil, and air are not apparent when judged only by surface fire intensity. The fire severity or fire impact can be described by the temperatures reached within the forest floor and the duration of heating experienced in the vegetation, forest…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sampling intensity for estimating fuel moisture content in lodgepole pine and white spruce trees

Titus, Woodard, Johnson
[no description entered]
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed burning background document and technical information document for prescribed burning best available control measures

From the text...'The purpose of this document is to provide technical information on prescribed burning. It does so in two ways. One, it provides background information useful in determining reasonably available control measures (RACM) and best available control measures (BACM)…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The rain on the plain: are there vegetation-climate feedbacks?

Woodcock
The Interior Lowland of North America, comprising the Central Lowland and the Great Plains, is a region of approximately 3.2 x 106 km2. The nature of the (climatic) climax vegetation in this area has been a matter of controversy. Empirical evidence regarding the vegetation of…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mechanical and chemical treatment of hardwood competition in mixedwood cutovers in western Newfoundland

Richardson
On rich productive mixedwood cutover sites in western Newfoundland, hardwood reproduction competes strongly with regenerating softwood seedlings, chiefly of balsam fir. An experiment was established to compare several chemical methods and one mechanical method of releasing the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Preliminary fuel consumption guidelines for prescribed burning in Ontario slash fuel complexes

McRae
This report provides interim fuel consumption guidelines for five common slash fuel complexes found in Ontario. Slash fuel consumption and depth of burn were found to be related to preburn fuel. loadings, and to fire weather as expressed by the Buildup Index (BUI), a component…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Handcrew fireline production rates - some field observations

Barney, George, Trethewey
This paper presents the results of a study of handcrew fireline production rates. The methods are discussed. Tables and figures show the data collected and their analysis in a variety of stratifications. The basic data from the study are also presented. Because of the limited…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The energy budget of a fuel moisture stick

Carlson, Gay
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lightning that ignites forest fires

Fuquay
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effect of burning on the productivity of saltgrass [abstract]

Cabrera-Perez, Garcia-Moya, Romero-Manzanares
Saltgrass cover the bed lake of Texcoco, Mexico. Spring burning is practiced to promote growth and to improve forage quality. To test the effect of burning on productivity an expriment with two treatments, burning and control with three replications was established. Monthly…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

National fuels inventory library

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

Conversion of dense lodgepole pine stands in west-central British Columbia into young lodgepole pine plantations using prescribed fire. 1. Biomass consumption during burning treatments

Blackwell, Feller, Trowbridge
The ecological effects of different treatments used to convert dense Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. stands into young P. contorta plantations are determined. The treatments used were felling the trees with a bulldozer and either broadcast burning the slash or bulldozing…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An instrument for rapid, accurate, determination of fuel moisture content

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

Automated fire weather forecasts

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

A national fire occurrence data library for fire management planning

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

Vegetation of the boreal forests south of James Bay: non-centered component analysis of the vascular flora

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

Fire temperatures in grass, shrub and aspen forest communities of central Alberta

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