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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Albini, Brown
Development of equations for prediciting fuel bed depth (called 'bulk depth' herein) appropriate for modeling fire behavior in slash is described. Bulk depth (y) was correlated with the expected number of 1/4-to 1-inch-diameter particle intercepts per foot of vertical plane…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Boster
Damage appraisal is the basis for fire-suppression decisions. Where timber is managed for production of maximum site rent, appraisal is a rather straightforward matter of applying standard financial criteria in a 'with and without' procedure. Where the aim is maximum mean annual…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Young, Redmond
This report describes procedures used to validate AIRPRO - an air tanker productivity computer simulation model. It begins by discussing the general concept of validation and listing specific producedures that can be used to test models. The supportive components of AIRPRO are…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dietz
Most western state laws pertaining to prescribed burning do not specifically deal with range rehabilitation. Prescribed burns require a burning permit issued by the State Forester, or his equivalent, prior to ignition during closed fire seasons. Air quality standards have been…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haines, Main
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moore
It is now well established that fire plays an important part as a periodic disturbing influence on many of the forest types of North America. The species composition of such forests has undergone selection as a result of the regularity of fires during their history so that the…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
This report examines air tankers from a systems point of view. The discussion begins by describing the fire control environment. Fire suppression is discussed from the resource management viewpoint. Emphasis then shifts to identifying the structure, components, resources, work…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans
In a year of catastrophic wildland fires across the country, Alaska once again had the dubious honor of being host to the nation's largest wildland fire.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro
This paper deals with the application of fire management principles to satisfy land management needs. What is fire management? Briefly, fire management is the applicaiton of fire related knowledge to achieve specific land management objectives. In this case, the required fire…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgess
Annual aboveground wood increment in the world's forests is approximately 12.9 billion metric tons. At 50 percent accessibility, about 6.5 billion tons are available for all wood uses. On the assumptions of 3.5 x 10 (6) kcal/ton of air-dried wood, a thermal-electric conversion…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McMahon, Tsoukalas
The occurrence of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the combustion products of carbonaceous fuels is a well known phenomenon. Several PAW are known to be carcinogenic in animals. Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is the most well-known and studied compound of those classified by the…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
Adapted from a paper presented at the Joint Rocky Mountain Fire Council and Intermountain Fire Research Council Meeting, Rangeland Management and Fire held November 1-3, 1977 at Casper, Wyoming.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wong
The atmospheric input of carbon dioxide from burning wood, in particular from forest fires in boreal and temperate regions resulting from both natural and man-made causes and predominantly from forest fires in tropical regions caused by shifting cultivation, is estimated to be 5…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wood
Description not entered.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES