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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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White, Bratton
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Hummel, Van Wagner
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore
Literature from the United States, Canada and Australia is reviewed to summarize knowledge concerning fire history, effects of fire, fire behavior, what is "natural," the role of Indian burning, the role of prescribed fires, effects on wildlife, insects and disease, and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knight
From the Introduction ... 'The vegetation mosaic in any landscape is a function of environmental variation and historic disturbances, whether caused by humans or other factors. Many studies have focused on species composition in relation to environmental gradients, and secondary…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guth
The subtitle ... 'The American dream of a home in the woods is going up in smoke for more and more people. Here's how to keep it from happening to you.' Published by American Forests. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clifton, Hill
Nighttime observations of lightning were conducted using a low-light-level television system at the Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research in New Mexico. The number of strokes per flash, the interstroke intervals, and flash durations of cloud-to-ground activity were…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson
On rich productive mixedwood cutover sites in western Newfoundland, hardwood reproduction competes strongly with regenerating softwood seedlings, chiefly of balsam fir. An experiment was established to compare several chemical methods and one mechanical method of releasing the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
This report provides interim fuel consumption guidelines for five common slash fuel complexes found in Ontario. Slash fuel consumption and depth of burn were found to be related to preburn fuel. loadings, and to fire weather as expressed by the Buildup Index (BUI), a component…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
Describes design and construction of a system for creating a vertical, unbounded arc discharge in air. The arc is initiated by an exploding tungsten wire and is turned on and off by a silicon-controlled rectifier switching system. As a safety precaution, all circuits are…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wainman, Mathewes
The forest history around Marion Lake in southwestern British Columbia is reconstructed using plant macrofossil analysis. A comparison with a previous reconstruction based on pollen and spore analysis reveals a good correspondence between pollen and macrofossil zones.…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Willms, Bailey, McLean
The effects of fall clipping or burning on the subsequent morphology of bluebunch wheatgrass were studied in both the big sagebrush-bluebruch wheatgrass and Douglas fir-bluebunch wheatgrass communities. Observations were made to the 2nd year after treament. Burning, in the big…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Luti
This paper describes a finite difference experiment to simulate the transient development of the convection column above a strip of uniform high temperature source in a stratified uniform cross flow atmosphere. The k--e model of turbulence is used and an upstream weighted scheme…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carlson, Gay
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuquay
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donohoe, Reifsnyder, Reed
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bevins, Roussopoulos
In this paper, we offer a general overview of the design and status of the NFIL. We discuss the structure of the Fuels Inventory Database, the function of the various database management programs available in the Management Software Package, and the current contents of the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leckie
Classifications of airborne mutlispectral scanner data for forest defoliation assessment have generally met with only moderate success. Key factors affecting defoliation assessment (radiometric distortions within the imagery due to atmosphere, sun-object-viewer geometry and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Routledge
Because standard methods for computing the optimal rotation age of a forest stand assume complete knowledge of the stand value at any future time, a forest manager must treat his estimates of future value as if they were completely accurate. Minor, unpredictable fluctuations…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sackett
'A recently developed instrument to be used operationally by a variety of industries and disciplines may significantly shorten the time needed to determine dead and live fuel moisture for those people trying to predict prescribed or wildfire behavior and effects. It can be used…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
Every wildland fire control organization in North America relies on assistance from outside agencies during periods of extreme fire severity.In some cases interagency cooperation is formalized, as in the Northeast Forest Fire Compact or the Boise Interagency Fire Center. In…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mollner, Olsen
The Automated Fire Weather Forecast (AFWF) is a computer program designed to forecast seven of the eight fire weather forecast parameters issued daily during the fire weather season at the Boise Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO). The program uses Limited Fine Mesh (LFM)…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Raunemaa, Hari, Kukkonen, Anttila, Katainen
Long-term effects of air pollutants in Finland have been studied by analyzing needle litter of pine (Pinus silvestris L.) and spruce (Picea abies L. Karst) in 13 stands from the years 1958 to 1982. A considerable annual increase in elemental concentrations was observed in the…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roussopoulos, Yancik, Radloff
'We have developed a prototype National Fire Occurrence Data Library (NF0DL) to help fire managers interact with resource managers in meeting the new planning requirements of the Resources Planning Act and the National Forest Management Act. The data library provides means for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fellman
'...'The development of beautiful diagnostic methods enables us to slice through and unpeel a flame,' says Howard B. Palmer, professor of energy science at Penn State University and president of the Combustion Institute, the largest professional organization in this field. Many…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Auditory recognition of covey mates from separation calls in northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus)
Two experiments were conducted to determine whether Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) discriminate covey mates from noncovey mates on the basis of recognition of the individual giving the separation call. Two possible modes of recognition, phenotype matching and call…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS