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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schroeder, Buck
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burbank
From the text: 'I want to stress one last point. Equipment developers, such as my organization, need your cooperation in defining or, more importantly, identifying your major problems. You, Fire Control managers, have the field problems which must be solved, not us. Too often we…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wambach
From the text...'Let me over-simplify (or overstate) my argument to make my point. Foresters have tended to identify only two types of fires: (1) wildfires, which are bad and should be prevented or put out expeditiously, and (2) prescribed fires, which are good and should be…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Webb
From the text... 'Of all the meteorological elements which are known to affect forest fuel flammability and fire behaviour, rain is the most variable in its areal distribution. in its frequency, and particularly in its amount. While the measurement of rainfall is simple,…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
Moisture content, owing to its direct effect on flammability of forest fuels, must be incorporated into a fire danger rating system. Accurate indicators of moisture content in different fuels are particularly important when separate burning tables are required for major fuel…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones, Johnston
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flora
Appraisal of damage to forests from insects, fire, and disease has been approached in many ways. In North America, at least, no single Thing to Do has evolved. With the help of comments by Pooh and his associates, the article is a brief review of alternative damage appraisal…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cargill
Fire perimeters can be quickly estimated using a 'rate of spread/elapsed time' table. This eliminates the need for plotting the fire acreage in order to determine the perimeter of the fire, and control force requirements based on fire perimeter can be determined quicker.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schroeder, Buck
[Excerpt from text] The fire weather occurring on a particular day is a dominant factor in the fire potential for that day. Fire climate well may be thought of as the synthesis of daily fire weather over a long period of time, is a dominant factor in fire control planning.…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Keetch, Byram
The moisture content of the upper soil, as well as that of the covering layer of duff, has an important effect on the fire suppression effort in forest and wildland areas. In certain forested areas of the United States, fires in deep duff fuels are of particular concern to the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jones, Johnston
We stood with the gray-haired ranger on a high ridge in Oregon overlooking a thousand square miles of forest. [from the text] The night before, my GEOGRAPHIC colleague Jay Johnston and I had watched a particularly violent thunderstorm of the type that plagued the Northwest in…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lotspeich, Mueller, Frey
From objectives (page 13): 'Objectives of the study were: (1) to develop sufficient understanding of the effects of forest fires on water quality of Alaskan streams so that it may be possible to make rational decisions for allocating manpower and funds for controlling specific…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS