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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Ferry
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Lear, Waldrop
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gnann
Aerial ignition using plastic spheres (similar to ping-pong balls) charged with potassium permanganate activated by ethylene glycol and dropped from a low flying helicopter is a proven system to safely prescribe burn large areas in a short time for rough reduction and site…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stevens
Aerial drip torch devices have potential for dramatically increasing acreage burned annually. Aerial burning requires different and broader concepts than hand burrning, more advance planning, more attention to detail, and at least a basic understanding of helicopter operations.
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schwartz, Hermann
We present evidence that fire suppression may have contributed to the fungal decline of torreya (Torreya taxifolia). During the 1950's torreya suffered a catastrophic die-back. The torreya die-back was probably caused by needle pathogens induced through environmental stress.…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haddow
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dickenson
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paul, Pierovich
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reifsnyder, Berry
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parker
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Minimum Acceptable Visibility (MAV) table was originally provided by the California Highway Patrol in response to an inquiry relative to acceptable highway visibility reduction caused by smoke. The table was included in chapter two of the 1991 edition of the National Park…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
Fire spread in wildland fuels is modeled as the steady, longitudinal propagation of an isothermal surface at ignition temperature by the process of radiation transport through a uniform layer of randomly-distributed, thermally-thin, radiometrically-black fuel particles. The…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kourtz, Todd
Lightning causes one third of the 9000 wildfires that occur in Canada. Annually, these lightning-caused fires account for 90% of the area burned and cost Canadians at least 150 million dollars in suppression costs and values destroyed. Unlike the fires caused by human negligence…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
A high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for determining the concentration of trace amounts of benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) in particulate matter from combustion of forest fuels was validated. Particulate matter was prepared for analysis by a small-scale (1mg),…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Reinhardt
Equations for predicting duff and large woody fuel (7.6+ cm) consumption are summarized. Dependent variables are duff depth reduction, percentage duff depth reduction, percentage mineral soil, large fuel diameter reduction, and percentage large fuel reduction. Opportunities to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
A prescribed fire was ignited near Chapleau, western Ontario, Canada, on the afternoon of August 10, 1989. The fire, covering approximately 400 ha, burned vigorously over a period of 3 hours, from 1400 to 1700 EDT, generating a plume cloud structure including a portion…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
After the serious smoke inversion conditions on the northern California and southern Oregon fires of 1987 and the Greater Yellowstone Area fires of 1988, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) hosted a conference - 'The Effect of Forest Fire Smoke on Firefighters'-in…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wertz
[no description entered]
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
This paper draws on comments from 89 reporters who covered the fires, on comments from 146 of their new sources, and on evaluations of network television coverage by four groups of wildfire experts. The research also incorporates a content analysis of stories about the fires…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davi
Computers are rapidly expanding into the urban fire safety area. This paper presents some social implications caused by the use of computers for fire safety databases, arson prediction programs, and fire simulation programs. In regards to the new technological advances this…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White, Fenton
The western national parks managed by the Canadian Parks Service (CPS) are dominated by fire dependent forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and trembling aspen. Values at risk and high-intensity fire regimes limit the acceptability of unscheduled (lightning and unplanned man)…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Tankersley
[no description entered]
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radke, Hegg, Hobbs, Nance, Lyons, Laursen, Weiss, Riggan, Ward
n this chapter we describe the results of airborne studies of smokes from 17 biomass fuel fires, including 14 prescribed fires and 3 wildfires, burned primarily in the temperate zone of North America between 34° and 49°N latitude. The prescribed fires were in forested lands…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES