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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mohr
Text: 'This pocket size field guide contains techniques that can be used either during the burn or soon after completing the burn. They give some indication whether or not desired fire affects, as addressed by the plan's objectives and constraints, are being accomplished or were…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen, Ryan
Text: 'The organic mantle of the forest floor acts as a barrier to heat transport down into the mineral soil. This study compares the temperatures experienced in a surrogate mineral soil (sand) with and without an organic mantle (peat moss) covering the mineral soil. Different…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harrington
The text: 'Gambel oak is frequently found as a highly competitive understory species in southwestern ponderosa pine stands. When the pine is removed, either by harvesting or wildfires, this sprouting oak species flourishes, making pine reestablishments very difficult. Prescribed…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeByle
From the text: 'Aspen is seral on most sites. It colonizes and dominates burns, clearcuts, and other disturbed locations. Maximum aspen biomass is attained between 50 and 100 years after stand establishment. Sometimes later, between 200 and 400 years, the aspen is often replaced…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simmerman
From the text: 'This poster display illustrates the current development of a classification of fuels in aspen forests. Fuels and flammability vary considerably within the aspen and mixed aspen/conifer forest types depending upon plant community type, grazing influence, and…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shearer, Schmidt
The text: 'Establishmeht of natural regeneration was compared on clearcuts prescribed burned in 1967, on clearcut and uncut units burned by a wildfire in 1967, and on unburned clearcuts. The amount of exposed soil increased with time on all burned, but not on unburned units. The…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sackett
Delayed action ignition devices (DAID) are useful for prescribed burning or 'burning out' suppression activities. The devices are easily made from material readily available. Orange wax safety fuse with a burning rate of 3.3 seconds per inch is used as a timing device for the…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCleese
From the text: 'As the use of prescribed fire grows, the demand for more efficient and effective methods of ignition will grow with it. Once the opportunities for fire use are recognized, program managers will have to seek more effective ways to keep up with the increasing…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bentley
Command and control of Champion's helitorch operations have so far amounted to the ignition boss being located on the ground. The alternative forms of command and control, which include ignition boss in chase helicopter or ignition boss in ignition helicopter, have not been used…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer
From the text: 'These increases in feelings of accomplishments or job security do not, however, come without a price. What is the price? Increased exposure to accidents, loss of lives or injury to your personnel, and increased workload to name a few.'
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kendrick
From the text: 'The pilot on any aerial ignition operation is presented with an extremely difficult task. It has been CDF's experience that having a trained helitack captain on board, acting as the lighting supervisor, reduces significantly the burdon on the pilot, while adding…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bohannan
From the text: 'Helitorch, waterbucket, and long-line flying offer some of the most difficult and hazardous flying one can do with a helicopter. The FAA, Part 133, allows for only 'essential crew members' to be on board during external load operations. An Ignition Boss/Fire Boss…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lasko
From the text: 'In summary, a number of command and control alternatives are available for use with aerial ignition systems. Due to the variety of situations encountered in the field, the burn boss must select the alternative that matches the situation and will provide for a…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell
From the Summary: 'There are several reasons to use helitorch ignition instead of hand ignition. Three primary reasons are safety of ground ignition personnel, cost effectiveness, and ability to meet resource objectives.'
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lafferty
From the Introduction: 'In British Columbia several aerial ignition systems are used: the gas/diesel/JP-4 drip torch, the gelled gasoline helitorch, and the aerial ignition device (AID). This paper deals mainly with the experiences of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. (MB) and Forest…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Curtis
From the Summary ...'Successful prescribed burning on steep slopes in heavy fuels demands good preparation and planning from the start to the finish. Don*t overload the burn unit with fire fighters. Use only the personnel needed to accomplish the burn. It will not be easy and…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter
From the Conclusions ... 'The coordination of the helitorch operations, such as support services, unit ignition procedures, and timing, is of a critical nature. It is imperative that a smooth flow of effort be immediately established and maintained throughout a burn. Oversights…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lionberger
From the Introduction: 'Aerial ignition, as a part of prescribed fire and wildfire management, is rapidly growing in popularity. Since the early 1970's when development began, many improvements have been made by both the private sector and government agencies. The 'flying drip…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
The magnitude of prescribed fire use has greatly increased in the past 10 years. With this expanded use of fire came a need for aerial ignition devices and techniques. This paper reports the preliminary findings of a nationwide survey of active aerial ignition prfactitioners.…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the Final Remarks...'Designing fire prescriptions to meet today's demand for skill and professionalism requires an orderly planning process. At the start of this process, fire objectives must be derived from land managment objectives and specifically stated in terms of what…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman
From the Introduction ... ' As prescribed fire became more widely understood and applied in the U.S. in the decades following World War II, forest managers routinely used aircraft for various purposes in prescribed fire operations. In the U.S., this most often was the helicopter…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murgai
This paper describes the results of examining the influence of radiative heat transfer on turbulent natural convection above fires in an atmosphere of constant potential temperature, under both the 'opaque' and 'transparent' approximations. It turns out that on the basis of the…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
From the summary ... 'Thermal infrared systems have been utilized by the Forest Service and other agencies for fire management and other purposes for about 20 years. A variety of equipment ranging from simple, low capability instruments to technologically complex systems…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donoghue, Paananen
From the text ... 'Ninety-one percent of all wildifres occuring in the United States are caused by human activities. From 1974 through 1978, an average of 128,092 fires burned 1,814,943 acres of forest and other protected land (USDA Forest Service 1972-1980). In region 9 alone (…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Matson, Schneider, Aldridge, Satchwell
This report discusses the potential usefulness of thermal infrared sensors onboard NOAA polar-orbiting satelites for detecting fires. In particular, the 3.8-micron channel is sensitive to high temperature sources such as fires. This paper will demonstrate how the 3.8-micron…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS