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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
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Wright
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Panshin, de Zeeuw
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeBano, Mann, Hamilton
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Countryman
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evert
[no description entered]
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen
[no description entered]
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
George, Blakely
Rate of spread and other indirect measurements of fire intensity are often used as measures of flammability when fire-retardant chemicals are evaluated under laboratory conditions. The authors describe a system for obtaining the energy release rate directly and show its…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fahnestock
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
[no description entered]
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quirk, Sykes
In a south-facing subbasin of Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, several mature white spruce stringers, apparent relics of extensive stands that have escaped fires, were studied.Tree-ring investigations show that the mature spruce stringers have remained fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sackett
Sampling the forest floor to determine litter weight is a tedious,time-consuming job. A new device has been designed and tested at the Southern Forest Fire Laboratory that eliminates many of the past sampling problams. The sampler has been fabricated in two sizes (6- and 12-inch…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierovich
Fire management demands that we (1) mke the best use of whatis known to us, (2) add to our knowledge, (3) assess the possibilites andd the probabilities offuture events, (4) obtain meaningful pulic choices.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the text:'The goal of research on the behaviour of forest fires is presumably to be able to predict with reasonable assurance how a fire will behave in any stated weather and forest fuel. This goal does not, of course, have an absolute form since the prediction of forest…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murray, Northcutt, Countryman
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Connaughton
From the text: 'We have established that fire in the Intermountain West is a well recognized and time honored natural orce as part of our dynamic evolution. We have had no trouble agreeing that fire preceded man and, until very recently at least, has been a far more potent force…
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
Robinson
From the text...'Management today is faced with getting more jobs done at a relatively constant fund level in a period of inflationary costs and growing environmental concern,. this gives rise to the practice known as 'looking at one's hole card.' Management must critically…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hayes
From the text...'In closing I should emphasize that purposeful use of fire has not yet had much impact on western forest ecosystems. It is rapidly developing an impact on some ponderosa pine lands, however, notably some Indian lands managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Henderson
Forest fire records 1914 - 1968, for Kamloops and Nelson Forest Districts in British Columbia are summarized to indicate trends in costs and damage. Areas burned have been substantially reduced by improved fire control techniques and intensity. Ecological impact of fire…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner
The accumulated hours of bright sunshine provide a simple index of fire season severity for the southern coastal area of British Columbia. This index, based on the period May 1 to August 31, is highly correlated with the annual acreage burned over the Vancouver Forest District.…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin, Crist
Bark structure varies considerably from that of wood, although analogies may be drawn between specific elements and overall structure and function. The terminology of bark structure is discussed and various cellular elements are described. Several bark structures are illustrated…
Year: 1970
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
Berlad, Rothermel, Frandsen
An experimental and theoretical examination of the mass burning and evaporation-rate structure of a bed of fine solid-fuel elements is made for several cases of quasi-steady firespread waves propagating along and into the surface of the bed. Several distinct regimes are found to…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gollahalli, Brzustowski
Model experiments were performed in a preliminary study of the behaviour of a small ground fire in the lee of a tree. The fires were simulated by alcohol wick burners and the trees by vertical pipes. Data were taken up to RE = 20,000 with the burners located downwind of the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS