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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stewart
From the text ... 'The historic records from around the world leave no room to doubt that primitive hunting and gathering peoples, as well as ancient farmers and herders, for a number of reasons, frequently and intentionally set fire to almost all the vegetation around them…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruhn
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fueno, Mukherjee, Ree, Eyring
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Laderman, Hecht, Stern, Oppenheim
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Calcote
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weinberg
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram, Clements, Elliott, George
The first part of this report presents the results of further tests of fires in wood cribs. In one series of tests cribs of the same height and structure but with different areas, or horizontal cross-sections, were burned in still air to determine the effect of size of burning…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
This newspaper article contains information regarding total acres burned during the 1964 Alaska wildfire season.
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
An 80-foot-square plot in a red pine plantation was burned at extreme fire danger as part of a study of fire behavior and effect. When the wind reversed its direction, the original slow-moving back-fire changed within a few minutes to a fast-spreading crown fire. The transition…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cayford
In the fall of 1955 a forest fire burned approximately 12,000 acres of merchantable and young growth jack pine on the Sandilands Forest Reserve in southeastern Manitoba. A fact-finding observational study was carried out between 1956 and 1961 to determine the amount and…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
The physical properties of bark are virtually uninvestigated, and the resulting lack of knowledge has relegated bark to the role of residue. Significant among these properties are thermal characteristics, which are basic to the use of bark as thermal insulation. This paper…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
Problems encountered in the field of ire detection and suppression are outlined. The experimental program for the evaluation of infrared scanning devices currently in progress at the Forest Fire Laboratory is discussed. Data accumulated to date on the nature of small fires and…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chandler, Storey, Tangren
Mass fires are likely to follow a nuclear attack. Since it is important to the civil defense program to be able to predict rate, duration, and extent of spread of such fires, the Office of Civil Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, issued a joint contract to the Forest Service…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Countryman
Mass fires are being investigated through a series of large-scale test fires. Preliminary results indicate: (a) air flow patterns that create eddies can result in fire vortices when fires is present; (b) the lower part of the convection column consists of a series of small…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adams
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
An understanding of fire spread is important to the development of improved methods and systems for the control of free burning fires. Gaining knowledge about fire spread in forest fuels is complex because many variables are involved and because we still lack full understanding…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas
Uncontrolled fires produce flames where the initial momentum of the fuel is low compared with the momentum produced by buoyancy. The heights of such flames with wood as the fuel are examined and discussed in terms of both a dimensional analysis and the entrainment of air into…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chandler, Storey, Tangren
Mass fires are likely to follow a nuclear attack. Since it is important to the civil defense program to be able to predict rate, duration, and extent of spread of such fires, the Office of Civil Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, issued a joint contract to the Forest Service…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
The control of large fires is a problem of continuing concern to the Forest Service, other public agencies, and private owners of forest and rangeland. A few large fires each year account for all but a small share of the Nation's forest fire losses. In time of war, this problem…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
INTRODUCTION: Fire in the interior basin of Alaska is commonplace. Lightning- and man-caused fires have burned and reburned millions of acres. Despite their commonness and extensiveness, the specific history and characteristics of a fire as the relate to fules and weather have…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hess, Scott, Ledosquet
Description not entered.
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES