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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Survey of plant succession on the 1980 Blair Lakes Burn, Alaska

Simpson, Shields
This report, prepared for land management agencies, details observations on burn severity, animal utilization, and early plant succession on a fire which burned 250,000 acres in the Tanana Flats in 1980.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Control of depth to permafrost and soil temperature by the forest floor in black spruce/feathermoss communities

Dyrness
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of temperature and light on the germination of five prairie wildflower species

Kaspar, McWilliams, Grigg
Seeds of five prairie wildflower species, Eustoma grandiflorum, Monarda citriodora, Phlox drummondii, Coreopsis lanceolata, and Gaillardi pulchella, were placed on a thermogradient plate to define the optimum temperatures for germination. Seeds were germinated over a temperature…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wood-based paneling as thermal barriers

White
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Plant population dynamics under varying fire regimes

Bradstock
The effects of variations in fire intensity, frequency, and seasonality on the dynamics of four dry sclerophyll species, Banksia ericifolia, Petrophile fucifolia, B. serrata, Isopogon anemonifolius, are being investigated. These species have canopy-retained seedbanks enclosed in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire management: a state of the art review and bibliography

Baumgartner, Simard
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biosocial systems analysis: an approach for assessing the consequences for resource policies

Bonnicksen, Lee
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest fire history in the central Yukon

Johnson, Strang
A study of 59 sites in the Central Yukon showed no strong correlation between plant community and time since burning, the post-fire seral communities being both site and fire-specific. Fire intervals were 33, 69, 57 and 62 years in the South Ogilvie, North Ogilvie, Eagle Plains…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

New system developed for appraising wildfire effects

Baumgartner, Gorte
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting prescribed burning costs of wildlife habitat management

Jackson, Flowers, Loveless, Schuster
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The dilemma of flame length and intensity

Johnson
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The ecological effects of slashburning with particular reference to British Columbia: a literature review

Feller
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Horizontal roll vortices and crown fires

Haines
Observational evidence form nine crown fires suggests that horizontal roll vortices are a major mechanism in crown-fire spread. Post-burn aerial photography indicates that unburned tree-crown streets are common with crown fire. Investigation of the understory of these crown…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Resource values in analyzing fire management programs for economic efficiency

Althaus, Mills
In analyzing fire management programs for their economic efficiency, it is necessary to assign monetary values to the changes in resource outputs caused by fire. The derivation of resource values is complicated by imperfect or nonexistent commericial market structures. The…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A statistical analysis of the frequency of lightning-caused forest fires

Marsden
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Response of free-burning fires to nonsteady wind

Albini
A speculative, phenomenological model is formulated for the time-varying intensity and spread rate of a free-burning fire under the influence of nonsteady wind. The model is linearized by approximations and explicit solutions derived for the amplitude response of spread rate and…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire in America: a cultural history of wildland and rural fire

Pyne
From the book jacket...'From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen J. Pyne's narrative explores the efforts of sucessive American cultures to master this forbidding kind of fire and to use it to shape the landscape. He draws not only on academic experience…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire history and its role in succession

Martin
Fire occurs at various intervals in differnet vegetation types. Intervals between fires are longer in warm, dry sites where small amount of fuel limits fire spread and in cool, wet sites where burning conditions are limiting despite the large amount of fuel. The shortest fire…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Evaluating potential tree mortality from prescribed burning

Ryan
Prescribed burning is increasingly being used under standing timber for site preparation and fuels management. Managers need guidelines for determining species and individual tree characteristics that are potentially capable of incurring minimal injury from a fire treatment. A…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulation models to improve knowledge of the dynamics of forest fires

Calliari, Cantiani
An experimental model is described for simulating the dynamics of the initial phase of a forest fire in a conifer stand with a wind blowing persistently in the same direction. It is shown that the characteristic burns on the bark at the base of the stem make it possible to…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Production rates for crews using hand tools on firelines

Haven, Hunter, Storey
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Developing fire and silvicultural prescriptions for site preparation, an example

Bunnell, Christophersen
The burning prescription is an integral part of the silvicultural prescription. Writing these prescriptions for site preparation objectives involves close coordination between the fire manager and silviculturist. A negotiating period during the sale planning process is necessary…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The influence of environmental factors and management on stands of Phragmites australis 1. Effects of burning, frost and insect damage on shoot density and shoot size

Van Der Toorn, Mook
'The performance of common reed, Phragmites australis, was determined in an experimental field over a period of 5 yr. The aim of this study was to establish the effects of various environmental agents that cause damage to the reed. The direct influence of the different kinds of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Comparison of several aitken nuclei counters

Podzimek, Carstens, Yue
The basic thermodynamical processes leading to the formation of droplets in the central part of the Nolan-Pollak counter are analyzed in some detail. The comparison of the UMR-Absolute Aitken Nuclei counter with Nolan-Pollak, General Electric and Gardner counters showed…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Optimal forest fire control: an extension of parks' model

Parlar, Vickson
In this paper we re-examine the problem of optimal forest fire suppression which was previously studied by Parks. The growth of the fire is modelled by a deterministic differential equation in which the level of the suppression forces appears as a control variable. After…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS