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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Topic

Year

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Forest ecosystems and fire hazard in central Saskatchewan

Chrosciewicz
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wind tunnel evaluation of spruce foliage aerodynamics

Grant
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Some environmental effects of forest fires in interior Alaska

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

The deterioration by fungi of jack, red, and white pine killed by fire in Ontario

Basham
The nature, causes, and rate of pathological deterioration of jack, red, and white pine killed by fire in the Mississagi region of Ontario in 1948 were studied to determine the practicability and probable duration of profitable salvage operations in such stands. Blue and brown…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Silvicultural possibilities of fire in northeastern Washington

LeBarron
The article presented below came to the attention of the editors of the Journal of Forestry only recently. It was originally delivered as a paper at a meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Vancouver, B.C., June 15, 1949. It was not published and hence has received little…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Measuring fire behavior with photography

Clements, Ward, Adkins
Photography is practical for recording and measuring some aspects of forest fire behavior if the scale and perspective can be determined. This paper describes a photogrammetric method for measuring flame height and rate of spread for fires on flat terrain. The flames are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prediction of bird census from vegetation structure, application to the study of a postfire succession

Prodon, Lebreton
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire research needs in eastern hardwood forests

Simard
Despite a half century of observation and data gathering, our knowledge of fire ecology in eastern hardwood forests is, for the most part, rudimentary. Little work has been done on measuring time/temperature profiles of fires, surface heat transfer coefficients, or insulating…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Gordon Bade water rake

Reinhardt
Experienced fire control men who have used the water rake believe it is a practicable and worthwhile water-saving device. It is recommended for use where water is scarce and in deep duff where water penetration is slow. One water rake is recommended for each tanker unit in areas…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Climate class adjustments improve accuracy of predicted fuel moisture stick values

Harrington
In the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS), a correction is added to fuel moisture stick values to offset weathering effects. This correction is now being adjusted to compensate for different weathering rates in different climates. The corrections for NFDRS climate class…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Modeling big sagebrush as a fuel

Frandsen
Sufficient data exist within the literature to allow the woody biomass of two subspecies of Artemisia tridentata, basin big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata ssp. tridentata), and Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis), to be classified into 3 standard fuel…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effect of certain vegetation eradicators on the flammability of various materials

Ward
[no description entered]
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire control planning

Spaulding
[no description entered]
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Some principles of combustion and their significance in forest fire behavior

Byram
[no description entered]
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Economic efficiency of fire management on nonfederal forest and range lands

Bellinger, Kaiser, Harrison
An analysis, made by a cost-plus-net-value-change criterion, revealed that the amount of money spent nationwide to achieve an efficient fire protection on nonfederal forest and range lands is appropriate. However, improvements in efficiency can be achieved by increasing the fire…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Human impact on closed boreal forest (taiga)

Hamet-Ahti
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Grassland as natural or semi-natural vegetation

Looman
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Indian fires

Pyne
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Geocarpon minimum K.K. Mackenzie

Kral
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Extraction of ions from a flame

Deckers, van Tiggelen
A complete study of ionization in flames involves solution of the problems: (1) identification of the ions (as yet nothing definite is known about their nature); (2) evaluation of the ion concentration (even now there is still some disagreement concerning the exact amount of…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Economic cost of initial attack and large-fire suppression

González-Cabán
A procedure has been developed for estimating the economic cost of initial attack and large-fire suppression. The procedure uses a per-unit approach to estimate total attack and suppression costs on an input-by-input basis. Fire management inputs (FMIs) are the production units…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Integrating fire management analysis into land management planning

Mills
The analysis of alternative fire management programs should be integrated into the land and resource management planning process, but a single fire management analysis model cannot meet all planning needs. Therefore, a set of simulation models that are analytically separate from…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Artificial regeneration of trees and tall shrubs in experimentally burned upland black spruce feather moss stands in Alaska

Zasada, Norum, Van Veldhuizen, Teutsch
Fall seed-dispersing species, birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.), alder (Alnus crispa (Ait.) Pursh), and black spruce Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.), and summer-seeding species, aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.), balsam poplar (P. balsamifera L.), feltleaf willow (Salix alaxensis…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Measuring fire behavior with photography: Targets imaged in the photographs are used to scale fire dimensions

Clements, Ward, Adkins
Photography is practical for recording and measuring some aspects of forest fire behavior if the scale and perspective can be determined. This paper describes a photogrammetric method for measuring flame height and rate of spread for fires on flat terrain. The flames are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The escaped fire situation: a decision analysis approach

Seaver, Roussopoulos, Freeling
A preliminary decision analysis model addressing the choice among alternative suppression strategies on escaped wildfires is presented. A case study application of the model, in the context of an Escaped Fire Situation Analysis on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, is…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES