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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Carleton, Maycock
One hundred and ninety-seven boreal forest stands, in a region of Ontario and Quebec south of James Bay, were examined. Tree species were summarized as relative density of each of five stem size classes. These data formed the basis for an exclusive polythetic divisive stand…
Year: 1981
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
Lawson
From the text ... 'It is now recognized that indiscriminate slash burning has no place in current forest management. We must improve prescribed burning practice to accomplish at reasonable cost what no other treatment can provide on many sites. The job is to rationally develop…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chase
This note presents equations for calculating maximum spot fire distance from firebrand sources in the Intermountain West based on prevailing windspeed, vegetation cover, and terrain in the area. The equations include the capability to predict spotting distance from a torching…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogers, Hudson, Kocmond
Measurements of cloud condensation nuclei were made from small samples of stratospheric air taken from a U-2 aircraft at altitudes ranging from 13 to 19 kilometers. The measured concentrations of nuclei both in and outside the plume from the May and June 1980 eruptions of Mount…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mallik, Gimingham
(1) In Calluna-dominated heathlands managed by periodic burning, vegetation composition is influenced by the ability of species to regenerate rapidly after a fire. Experiments were carried out, using a number of heathland species. (i) to investigate the effects on germination of…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Steward, Richard, O'Donnell
The rate of burning of wooden dowels injected into the centre of various test fires was determined by direct weighing. The curves giving the rate of burning vs. time of exposure are presented for dowels of length 88.9 mm and diameters ranging from 2.54 mm to 50.8 mm. Five types…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Murphy
This report describes a study of the quality of - and uncertainty associated with - spot fire-weather forecasts prepared by National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters. The study involved the formulation of experimental probabilistic spot forecasts at four NWS offices for…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsh
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan, Rothermel
A site-specific fire behavior fuel modeling system being developed by the Fire behavior Research Work Unit at the Northern Forest Fire Laboratory, combines simplified field measurement techniques with computer-assisted fuel model development and testing. The fuel models will be…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen, Deeming
Updating the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) was completed in 1977, and operational use of it was begun the next year. The System provides a guide to wildfire control and suppression by its indexes that measure the relative potential of initiating fires. Such fires do…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garmon
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mackie
During late 1982 and early 1983 wild fires swept through more than 3.5 Mha in the lowlands of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The immediate causes of the conflagration were a combination of severe drought, destructive logging practices, and slash and burn agriculture. Although the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flowers, Shinkle, Cain, Mills
'Estimates of the timber net value change and timber output change resulting from wildfre were calculated for 9828 situation-specific fire and management conditions in the northern Rocky Mountains. After slight aggregation across the less sensitive situation parameters,…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saffell
'This note describes the modification required to convert an L.C.D. (liquid crystal display) calculator into a self-contained anemometer counter by the addition of a very simple circuit...' ©1981 British Ecological Society. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Newlon
'...Finally, in my list of basics, here are some of the basic steps to be considered when planning a public involvement program. --Define the issue in legal, ecological, social, and economic terms. --Communicate in layman's English, or in other languages--Spanish, French --as…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
'Considering that most of us in the fire business are involved in management of at least some public land and that, regardless of land status, many of our actions or inactions are subject to public view and often public criticism, an awareness of the political scene, what it…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ratliff, Pieper
An approach for deciding final clusters of a dendrogram is provided. Whether developed by agglomerative or divisive cluster analysis, decisions start at the 2-cluster level of the dendrogram. Cluster density is viewed as compactness and, therefore, is related to interindividual…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferguson, Leech
'In conclusion, we believe that David and West overstate the difficulties associated with the use of GLS and understate those with using OLS in the conventional manner. GLS is not a panacea, nor is it a technique for neophytes, but it does offer substantial advantages over OLS…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine, Eiber
Weather data from Upsala and Atikokan, Ontario, were used to determine the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System values and to calculate the soil moisture for two soil types using the Thornthwaite water balance. The Duff Moisture Code and the Drought Code were found to give…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kronemann, Simpson, Britton
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lorimer
A number of nondestructive techniques for analyzing the timing, frequency, and magnitude of natural disturbances in forest stands are discussed in this paper. Intensive age determination of trees is desirable for reconstructing forest disturbance history, but age distrubution…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gruell, Bunting, Neuenschwander
Comprehensive sampling of curlleaf mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius) on 41 sites in five States allowed an assessment of postfire population dynamics, differences in regeneration patterns, and critical events in stand regeneration. Historical accounts of fire, fire…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tisdale, Hironaka
The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of literature on the vegetation of the sagebrush region of North America. Since the objective is to document the current status of knowledge of sagebrush vegetation, emphasis has been placed on thorough coverage of…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Van Wagner
The objective of this paper is to explain the distributions, assumptions, interpretations, and relationships of the two compatible, stochastic models of fire history: the negative exponential and the Weibull. For each model the 'fire interval' and 'time-since-fire' distributions…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS