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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Winkworth
From the text: 'My prediction is that it will be necessary, for smoke management purposes, to go to complete regulation by State Forestry Agencies of all prescribed burning in order to save this critical forestry practice in the near future. I can assure you that none of the…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Havas, Hutchinson
Spontaneous burning of bituminous shale: at the Smoking Hills in the Canadian Arctic has produced intense acidic fumigations and strongly influenced the local tundra. The burns are of great antiquity. In an area of typically alkaline ponds with pH above 8.0, ponds within the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Eenigenburg
From the text ... 'The programs in this guide use formulas developed by Simard et al.1 to calculate the rate and direction of fire spread across any triangular or square plot. They can be used in the field with a hand-held Texas Instruments2 TI-59 calculator. The first program…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark
The area burned by wildland fire during the period 1977-1981 is reviewed, classified according to forest fire control agency. A breakdown of area burned by timber merchantability class for the period 1976-1980, but without agency detail, is also given. Original data on the area…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blakely
The study quantified differences between fire-retarding abilities of monoammonium phosphate samples from five different sources. Ponderosa pine needles and aspen excelsior fuel beds were spray-treated with different levels of chemical solutions, dried, and burned under…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weatherhead
The goal of this study was to develop a decisionmaking tool or modei to be used during timber sale preparation for identifying and evaluating feasible slash treatment alternatives for any set of sale conditions. The goal included four specific objectives: (1) a technique to…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodard, Niederleitner
Forest fire prevention data from ten different forest protection agencies in Canada were analyzed and evaluated. Data currently being collected fail to provide the information required for effective fire prevention programs. Information on the unsafe acts and conditions at the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson
From the text... 'The data in these tables and in the two additional tables listing "near-fatal” fires (Tables 3 and 4) help demystify these related fire types. It is possible to identify some common denominators of fire behavior in both fatal and near-fatal fires. It should be…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mogil, Rush, Kutka
From the text... 'Lightning continues to be the nation*s number one stormy weather killer. Annual lightning deaths probably exceed 200, although only about one half of these are reported in any single tabulation. Lightning injuries probably exceed 400 annually. Until additional…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacPherson, Isaac
The turbulent characteristics of 17 Canadian cumulus clouds have been documented using the measurements from a specially instrumented T-33 aircraft. Most of the 33 cloud penetrations were made through the tops of cumuli 1—4.5 km in depth. Turbulent energy spectra over a range of…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mironov
Berries of Vaccinium vitis-idaea, V. oxycoccus, V. uliginosum and V. myrtillosum were harvested on areas burned by a ground fire 8 yr previously (in one case 3 yr previously). Data are tabulated on DM content, total sugars, acidity (citric acid), total pectins, ascorbic acid,…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tietz, Jackson, Plattes
The Missoula Equipment Development Center (MEDC) evaluated a Government Aircraft Factories of Australia (GAF) Nomad N24A for smokejumper use. The evaluation was divided into two parts, flight performance and service test. The flight performance test simulated smokejumper…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quintilio, Bisgrove, Van
This paper reviews the unique aerial ignition device developed originally in Australia and the chronological work in Canada that eventually produced the Aerial Ignition Device and the Helitorch. It is of interest to note that the project has gone full circle in that Australia…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Isaac, Schemenauer, Crozier, Chisholm, MacPherson, Bobbitt, MacHattie
A cloud seeding technique is proposed which has the objective of stimulating rainfall from cumulus clouds drifting over forest fires. Preliminary tests of the ice crystal production capability of the cloud seeding technique were conducted on five cumulus clouds near Yellowknife…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Britton
Idaho fescue (Festuca idahoensis) plants were burned and clipped under 2 soil water regimes. Treatments were applied to plants in late August and mid-October located in eastern Oregon. Results indicated that watering plants either before or after burning produced no effects as…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
Unfortunately, no provision can be made in fire danger forecasting to directly account for special atmospheric conditions that are known to have a profound effect on wildfire behavior (e.g., airmass instability, low-level jet winds, large-scale subsidence). Fire managers must…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Viereck
An uplant tundra fire, started by lightning, burned 48 km2 near the Kokolik River in northwestern Alaska during late July and early August 1977. Permanent plots were established to monitor recovery of severely, moderately, and lightly burned areas as well as unburned tundra.…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brandel, Omi
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartigan
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haughland
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deardorff
A rate equation for soil-surface moisture fraction is developed which makes use of the more customary bulk soil moisture content, as well as the soil-surface evaporation rate minus precipitation rate. The two empirical constants involved are estimated from soil measurements of…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Henderson
The persistence and severity of water repellency in soils as affected by slashburning was examined in the municipal watersheds of Vancouver by the water drop penetration time (WDPT) and contact angle methods, respectively. Also hydrophobic materials wre extracted from soil,…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Negrete, Britton
The objectives of this study are to determine the effects of prescribed burning on the productivity and quality of six tropical grass species under semitropical conditions on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Tame tropical pastures in this area are used for beef cattle production,…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kourtz
Economic limitations prevent the mapping over large areas of forest fire fuel types using conventional forestry methods. The information contained in such maps would be a valuable tool for assisting in initial attack planning, presuppression planning and fire growth modelling.…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
The use of existing fire weather history from computerized data storage libraries, in conjunction with fire use programs and routines, allows the fire planner to develop realistic prescription limits, especially when the use of unplanned ignitions is directed. The integration of…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS