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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Ernst, Matson
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zagory, Lindow, Parmeter
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
The motion of a strong line thermal in an unstratified atmosphere is modeled to estimate a bound for its capability to life firebrand particles. It is found that the maximum height of a viable firebrand is roughly proportional to the square root of thermal strength. The…
Year: 1983
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
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
Orr
'The control aspects of fire management from the hand raked fireline to the maintained firebreak can produce form, line, color & texture contrasts. Just as these contrasts can produce undesirable results, they can be used productively. It should be obvious by now that…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gould
From the text: 'To summarize we must put more emphasis on prescribed burning; must insure accountability; step up training in techniques and smoke management; make sure there's fire management direction in land use plans and look for new techniques and procedures.'
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Resler
From the text: 'And, finally, I foresee a balanced fire management program. We do not want to lose our perspective. Aggressive fire control has not lost its importance. Fire readiness is a must. We will continue to have numerous fires in the foreseeable future. We must prevent…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Winkworth
From the text: 'My prediction is that it will be necessary, for smoke management purposes, to go to complete regulation by State Forestry Agencies of all prescribed burning in order to save this critical forestry practice in the near future. I can assure you that none of the…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haughland
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Malm
Goals and objectives outlined in the Clean Air Act of 1977 are in conflict with land management practices that utilize control or prescribed burns to maintain a healthy ecosystem. Specifically, smoke emissions from burn areas can significantly and adversely affect the visual air…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Eaton, Wendler
The high variablility of burning conditions and fuels, found in Alaskan forest fires, produces an associated complex emission of particulate matter. Histological evidence of some large particles has been found in the forest fire plumes as well as aerosols resulting apparently…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sandberg
Prescribed burning is an effective tool widely used in forest management. Several strategies are employed to minimize pollution from prescribed fire, including systems to avoid polluting sensitive areas or to ensure adequate dilution between the source and the receptors. Success…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward
Source strength is defined as the rate of release of an emission into the atmosphere from a specified process. In this paper, source-strength modeling of emissions of particulate matter from prescribed fires is discussed from three perspectives: 1) unit area (per m2), 2) unit…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mooney, Conrad
[from the text] Regions of the world with a Mediterranean climate, such as South Africa, southern Australia, California, and countries around the Mediterranean Sea, are noted for frequent and devastating wildfires. The economic and environmental costs of these fires are…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, MacLean
A book based on a conference of the same name held 22-24 October, 1979 at the University of New Brunswick. There are 15 chapters, including an introduction by the editors. The remaining 14 chapters are divided into 5 sections: Past and present fire frequencies; Physical effects…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Description not entered.
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, MacLean
An introduction to the spatial and temporal diversity of fire is given for northern circumpolar ecosystems. Both physical and biological parameters make northern ecosystems different from those in temperate regions; these parameters, such as long day length through the summer…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
MacLean, Woodley, Weber, Wein
Patterns of undisturbed nutrient cycling in northern ecosystems and the impact of fire on nutrient cycling are reviewed and discussed. The various effects of fire on ecosystem nutrient cycling may be broadly subdivided into (1) nutrient redistribution during fire, and (2)…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Feller
'Two studies were undertaken. An initial study in 1974 produced results that indicated significant losses of nitrogen and some other elements. The study was repeated 1981 as a check on the results of the 1974 burn, and to provide an assessment of the methods used in the first…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Benner, Urone, McMahon, Ryan
A stainless steel laboratory chamber to hold the entire combustion products from a small scale pine needle fire was useful for measuring the photochemical activity of pine needle fire smoke. Particle size distributions indicated that the nucleation of small numbers of submicron…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Artsybashev
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McMahon
Forest fires can be divided into two broad classes-wildfires and prescribed fires. Wildfires, whether caused by nature (lightning, etc.) or by the accidental or malicious acts of man, are not planned by forest managers and do not occur under controlled conditions. They can be…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS