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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Kulman
[no description entered]
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Komarek
From the text ... 'In this particular paper, as a fire ecologist, I am not primarily interested in the economic use of fire for man, but rather in the ecological relations of fire to plants, animals, and man in those interesting and sometimes peculiar adjustments, preadaptations…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Horton, Hopkins
[no description entered]
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quintilio
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Furman
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney, Noste, Wilson
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A series of graphs, tables and maps are presented that form the basis of a revised fire control plan at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station. Called aids to fire control planning, they are classified into those describing: (a) the pattern of fire weather, (b) the trends in…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Young
From the Introduction: 'AIRPRO is a simulation model designed for computer implementation. Its purpose is to simulate the use of air tankers in wildland fire suppression operations. The model can be used to analyze a wide variety of questions with respect to air tanker systems,…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro
From the text:'Fuel type maps were once considered to be an integral tools of Forest Protection Organization. In western national forests of the United States where access was limited, fuel conditions diverse, and peak fire loads frequent, the necessity for decision-making tool…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the introduction:'The purpose of this project is to measure the energy production of forest fires and how it is dissipated. If the use of energy output -rate is ever to become accepted as a means of describing forest fires, a simple method must be available, requiring…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This report presents a suggested list of metric units and conversion factors for quantities commonly used in forest fire research, and suitable also for practical use in operational work. It follows the approved standards of the International System of Units (SI).
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wells
Nonriparian woodlands occur on escarpments and other topographic break throughout the grassland province of central North America. Grassland vegetation is mainly correlated with gently sloping or flat terrain mantled by deep, transported soils of Pleistocene or younger age.…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
An interactive computer program that can be used to analyse historical fire weather data and determine how frequently specific prescribed burn fire weather prescriptions have occured in the past is described. The Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada.…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuquay
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haines, Main
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sando
'Natural resource management is an important activity in our society. The conservation and current environmental movements have emphasized the importance of sound management of natural resources. While there may be significant potential gains for production of our renewable…
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
Ripley, Saugier
(1) Microclimatic maesurements and flux determinations were made on natural Agropyron-Koeleria grassland during two growing seasons. (2) The calculated evaluation fluxes were analyzed in terms of the potential evaporation, soil moisture content, and plant water potential. The…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kourtz
Economic limitations prevent the mapping over of large areas of forest fire fuel types using conventional forestry methods. The information contained in such maps would be a valuable tool for assisiting in initial attack planning, presuppression planning and fire growth…
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
Pechanec, Plummer, Robertson, Hull
In planning for sagebrush control, the following items should be considered: (1) Where, (2) when, (3) how, (4) grazing management afterward, and (5) the need for regrassing afterward. The purpose of this bulletin is to make information on these items available for use by…
Year: 1965
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