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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Simard, Young
'The Forest Fire Research Institute has been studying the use of air tankers in fire control for several years. The most recent project involves the development of a computer simulation model to determine air tanker productivity (Simard, 1975). As part of that project, an…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruner
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans, Probasco
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marsden
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thanukos, Taylor, Kary
From the text...'Concurrent side by side operation of a standard high volume sampler and one fitted with an Andersen impactor has indicated that wind interference can result in lower total suspended particulates (TSP) being measured by the standard high volume sampler than by…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
A speculative, phenomenological model is formulated for the time-varying intensity and spread rate of a free-burning fire under the influence of nonsteady wind. The model is linearized by approximations and explicit solutions derived for the amplitude response of spread rate and…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the book jacket...'From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen J. Pyne's narrative explores the efforts of sucessive American cultures to master this forbidding kind of fire and to use it to shape the landscape. He draws not only on academic experience…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The purpose of this guide is to assist in the operational monitoring and evaluation of prescribed fires. A common approach to monitoring and evaluation will enable prescribed fire managers and resource specialists in different organizations and areas to share…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This Report is a bibliography of publications on all aspects of forest fire produced during the period 1961 to 1977 at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station. There are 64 items, listed chronologically in four categories. A short descriptive note accompanies each item.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Young, Redmond
From the text: 'This report summarizes AIRPRO. Its purpose is to give the reader a general impression of what the program does. Detailed documentation is not being generally distributed because 1) the cost of printing a large number of copies would be prohibitive, and 2) it is…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lott
An explosives system is now available that enables crews to construct firelines faster and with less environmental impact than conventional methods, the explosives system has been thoroughly tested and presents minimal hazards under wildfire conditions. The system and complete…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Townsend, Higgins
From the text:'during the field season of 1976 tests were undertaken by the Forest Fire Research Institute to determine the friction reduction effectiveness of Firestream Plus. Firestream Plus is an electrolytic hydrocarbon oxide polymer manufactured by the Riverside Polymer…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Townsend
The charcteristics and transportation of eleven portable forestry fire pumps and major pump accessories currently used in Canada are described. Weight of each unit and major accessories, and unit dimensions are given. The operating principles of the two-cycle engine,…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
Some basic concepts from the general theory of systems are presented. Six characteristics common to all systems (components, structure, resources, process, control, and objectives)are disussed and related to a fire management context. Wildland fire mangement is examined from a…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lewis
From the text: 'With respect to traditional uses of fire, the Indians of northern Alberta exhibited a clear understanding of both what was happening as well as why things happened. They exhibited full understanding of systemic, relational effects of burning in their discussions…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Fire occurs at various intervals in differnet vegetation types. Intervals between fires are longer in warm, dry sites where small amount of fuel limits fire spread and in cool, wet sites where burning conditions are limiting despite the large amount of fuel. The shortest fire…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A method is presented for computing fine fuel moisture content at hourly intervals around the clock. It is derived from the standard daily Fine Fuel Moisture Code used in the Canadian system of forest fire danger rating. It produces diurnal cycles of fuel moisture content that…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ramsey, Higgins
The tables presented here comtain forest fire statistics for the calender year 1980 as reported by all Canadian forest fire control agencies.The statistical data are presented seperately for each province or other major jurisdiction, and for Canada as a whole. Beside each figure…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woolley, Fardell
From the summary ... 'The basic routes leading to product formation in fires are identified and involve the thermal and thermal oxidative decomposition of the polymeric material. These products are released into the relatively mobile atmosphere of the fire where further…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tikkala
More specifically, I believe there are key publics that can have a major impact on our using fire by prescription. I identify four of these as: persons inside our fire profession. persons In regulatory agencies, public officials and image makers. Who are those again? -Those…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Perkins
It is my opinion that, if we are to advocate the further use of fire as a land management toot, it is essential that we inform the public as to its benefits to forestry and game management. Likewise, we should make them fully aware of the consequences of fire prevention, i.e., a…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Montgomery
From the text: 'Public support for prescribed fire is a job for skilled communications-planned, purposeful and directed toward specific audiences. In my estimation the audiences are primarily in those communities most directly affected by the practice. And that is where you have…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bethea
From the text: 'In my opinion, professional foresters should be working much harder to get the facts across on prescribed burning because if we don't I feel forest management could suffer from restrictive rules or laws, both at the State and Federal level. There are still some…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chandler
No abstract
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCleese
From the text: 'After working in both air quality management and fuel management for the past two years, I am convinced that the two programs are compatible. We, as fire managers, should look upon air quality objectives and standards in the same light that we work with water…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS