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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Vegetational responses to latitudinal variations in slope angle and aspect

Holland, Steyn
The radiant energy income of a slope influences its ambient temperatures and water movements, both of which are important controls on the growth behaviour, species composition and structure of its vegetation cover. Therefore, information about the radiation environments of…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Long-term effects of fire on the composition and activity of the soil microflora of a subalpine, coniferous forest

Bissett, Parkinson
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire hazard appraisal in pre-commercially thinned stands of British Columbia coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine

Hawkes, Lawson
Fuel complexes resulting from power-saw spacing in young coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine stands were quantitatively assessed for loading and duration of hazard. Fuel appraisal data were combined with fire weather regimes to derive fire behavior predictions for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of season and frequency of burning on a phryganic rangeland in Greece

Papanastasis
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Logging residue as an energy source

Granthan, Howard
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Thermal behavior of conifer needle extractives

Susott
Thermal generation of combustible vapors has been measured up to 500°C for green Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and lodgepole pine foliage. The relative contributions to combustible products are given for ether, benzene-ethanol, and total extractives, as well as for holocellulose…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Indian fires of spring

Lewis
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Estimating duff moisture from meteorological measurements

Frandsen, Bradshaw
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed burning

Cooper
[no description entered]
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Downed woody fuel accumulations in northern region forests

See, Brown
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Pine needles may harm pregnant cows

[no description entered]
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mechanical and chemical treatment of hardwood competition in mixedwood cutovers in western Newfoundland

Richardson
On rich productive mixedwood cutover sites in western Newfoundland, hardwood reproduction competes strongly with regenerating softwood seedlings, chiefly of balsam fir. An experiment was established to compare several chemical methods and one mechanical method of releasing the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Preliminary fuel consumption guidelines for prescribed burning in Ontario slash fuel complexes

McRae
This report provides interim fuel consumption guidelines for five common slash fuel complexes found in Ontario. Slash fuel consumption and depth of burn were found to be related to preburn fuel. loadings, and to fire weather as expressed by the Buildup Index (BUI), a component…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Equations and Fortran IV program for the 1976 metric version of the Forest Fire Weather Index

Van Wagner, Pickett
This report presents the equations for the new 1976 metric version of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index. In addition to the changes needed to accommodate metric weather data, several mathematical improvements are introduced as well. These eliminate certain anomalies in the…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A comparison of the Canadian and American forest fire danger rating systems

Van Wagner
This Report is a technical comparison of the American and Canadian systems of forest fire danger rating. It deals with the three fuel moisture indicators in each system, as well as the indexes of spread and energy release or buildup. The final comparison is between the American…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire spread in a black spruce stand

Kiil
'Fire Spread in a Black Spruce Stand.-The Canadian Forest Fire weather Index Tables consist of a family of relative fire danger indices that are used throughout Canada to assist in general fire control planning and operations. However, the fire manager must predict real fire…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Spontaneous and piloted ignition of pine needles

Stockstad
Spontaneous and piloted ignition of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Laws.) needles were investigated in an isothermal atmosphere. Four levels of sample moisture content were tested and minimum heat flux intensities required to produce ignition, times to ignition, and surface…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The energy budget of a fuel moisture stick

Carlson, Gay
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lightning that ignites forest fires

Fuquay
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

National fuels inventory library

Bevins, Roussopoulos
In this paper, we offer a general overview of the design and status of the NFIL. We discuss the structure of the Fuels Inventory Database, the function of the various database management programs available in the Management Software Package, and the current contents of the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An instrument for rapid, accurate, determination of fuel moisture content

Sackett
'A recently developed instrument to be used operationally by a variety of industries and disciplines may significantly shorten the time needed to determine dead and live fuel moisture for those people trying to predict prescribed or wildfire behavior and effects. It can be used…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Automated fire weather forecasts

Mollner, Olsen
The Automated Fire Weather Forecast (AFWF) is a computer program designed to forecast seven of the eight fire weather forecast parameters issued daily during the fire weather season at the Boise Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO). The program uses Limited Fine Mesh (LFM)…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A national fire occurrence data library for fire management planning

Roussopoulos, Yancik, Radloff
'We have developed a prototype National Fire Occurrence Data Library (NF0DL) to help fire managers interact with resource managers in meeting the new planning requirements of the Resources Planning Act and the National Forest Management Act. The data library provides means for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Estimating moisture content of heavy forest fuels

Furman
The specification of moisture contents in forest fuels is an integral part of any workable fire-danger rating system. This paper presents a linear model for estimating the moisture content of the 100-hour timelag fuels. The variables in the model include yesterday's computed…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation of the boreal forests south of James Bay: non-centered component analysis of the vascular flora

Carleton, Maycock
Results from an extensive vegetation survey of 197 boreal forest stands, encompassing a full spectrum of succession and site types in the regions of Ontario and Quebec south of James Bay, are reported. Non-centered principal component analysis plus varimax rotation (nodal…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS