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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Potts
Interest has increased recently in the use of herbicides to control woody plants on land intended for timber production. This increase in interest is due in part to: (1) the introduction of more versatile and more maneuverable woodland equipment such as the skidder tractor, (2)…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frampton
'The burning of logging slash has been a common practice in the Pacific Northwest ever since the introduction of clear-cut logging. In those days of low stumpage and log values no one needed to be too careful of the amount of damage done and the whole business was handled pretty…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
The Sundance Fire and its impressive run were not due to any new phenomena but the combination of several important factors. Extremely dry fuels and favourable weather conditions existed at the time; the atmospheric winds increased steadily thorughout the day, and the fire did…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fenton
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Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell
[no description entered]
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Galinat
[no description entered]
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Galinat, Ruppe
Another large and significant collection of prehistoric maize cobs (Zea Mays L.) with Tripsacoid characteristics that are indicative of introgression from either Tripsacum spp. or its maize derivative, teosinte (Zea mexicana Reeves and Mangelsdorf), has been provided by the…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Khan, Laude
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett, Barghoorn, Berger
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruce, Pong, Fons
A program of research on free-burning wood fires is being conducted by the Forest Service to build up experimental data on the properties of such fires, with the iltimate objective of describing the physical phenomena in terms of fundamental laws. Density was the first wood…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fons
The U.S. Forest Service has started a laboratory study with the ultimate objective of determining model laws for fire behavior. The study includes an examination of the effect of such variables as species of wood, density of wood, moisture content, size of fuel particle, spacing…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beaufait, Fischer
Fire managers require 24-hour records of temperature, relative humidity, and windspeed to use fire efficiently and effectively. When carefully calibrated and interpreted, modified hygrothermographs provide minimum instrumentation to obtain these records. An actual case of record…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Philpot
Diethyl ether and acetone were used to reduce the extractive content of aspen leaves. The leaves were burned in 0.5-ft^2 baskets and the weight loss rate was recorded. A direct relationship between extractive content and burning rate was found. This relationship emphasizes the…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Hardy
This Note published data on flame retardants in use at the time.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Hellman
A combined theoretical and experimental study has been performed of the behaviour of firebrands in a turbulent, swirling natural convection plume. For the theoretical treatment, firebrands were idealized as spheres of constant density, the burning rate a constant for each type…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder
A number of studies have been made over the years in an attempt to relate pertinent weather factors (including fuel moisture) to fire occurrence. Generally, regression analyses were used. In such studies, all of the many factors that affect ignition of wildfires are necessarily…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Storey, Carder, Tolin
INFORMAP (Information Necessary for Optimum Resource Management and Protection) is a computerized system under development for storing, manipulating, retrieving, and displaying data for fire planning and fire control. A prototype for planning applications has been developed and…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson
Experimental testing of a mathematical model showed that radiant heat transfer accounted for no more than 40% of total heat flux required to maintain rate of spread. A reasonable prediction of spread was possible by assuming a horizontal convective heat transfer coefficient when…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Main
This paper describes a computer program that calculates National Fire Danger Rating Indexes. fuel moisture, buildup index, and drying factor are also available. The program is written in FORTRAN and is usable on even the smallest compiler.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hare
This review of knowledge concerning the effects of high temperatures on plants was undertaken in preparation for research aimed at determining how forest fires affect physiological processes in woody species. Major subjects discussed include morphological and physiological…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, Beaufait, Norum
Conventional hygrothermographs can be modified as described here to record windspeed along with temperature and relative humidity. The fire-weather record resulting from the modification has several fire management applications, as demonstrated in field use.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anonymous
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Montgomery, Cheo
The burning characteristics of several fire-retardant plants and Southern California chaparral shrubs of recognized high flammability were compared in muffle-furnance tests at 650 C. Fresh terminal growth of Atriplex lentiformis did not burn as readily as comparable material of…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS