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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Olson
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Olson
[no description entered]
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Neil
Young jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) were defoliated manually to measure the effects of defoliation on growth of this species, and to determine the relative efficiency of foliage of different ages with respect to growth. The removal of 2-year-old or 3-year-old foliage had no…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loman
In an investigation to determine the fungal flora of lodgepole pine logging slash and the growth rates and decaying ablilities of the principal fungi in vitro as contrasted with conditions in nature, four hymenomycetes were isolated consistently and proved to cause most of the…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allred
The grass genus Aristida in the southeastern United States is reviewed. Twenty species are present in the region, all indigenous to the area. New combinations proposed are Aristida purpurescens Poir. var. tenuispica (Hitchc.) Allred and var. virgata (Trin.) Allred.
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis
[no description entered]
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huff, Agee
[no description entered]
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jameson
Juniper trees are invading grasslands and greatly reducing grass production on large ares in western United States. Grass fires are being tested among other methods for the control of small junipers. To test effectiveness of grass fres in killing one-seed juniper (Juniperus…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Levickij, Pis'merov
Describes three types of clear-felled area (Calamagrostis arundinacea, Epilobium angustifolium on burns; mixed grasses and broadleaved herbs), and suitable ways of re-establishing conifers on them.
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McKell, Wilson, Kay
Medusahead (Elymus caput-medusae L.) matures later in the spring than most associated species, and has a seed head moisture content of above 30 per cent for approximately a month after leaves and stems begin to dry. High temperature is more injurious to seed viability when seed…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fons, Clements, Elliott, George
The general objectives of this project are to evaluate the effects of the independent variables of fuel, fuel bed, fuel base, and atmospheric conditions on the dependent variables such as rate of burning, flame size, rate of energy released, and others which are concerned with…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
González-Cabán, Shinkle, Mills
Evaluating economic efficiency of fire management program options requires information on the firefighting inputs, such as vehicles and crews, that would be needed to execute the program option selected. An algorithm was developed to translate automatically dollars allocated to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Zasada, Chapin
The pattern of primary succession on the floodplain of the Tanana River in interior Alaska resulted largely from interactions between stochastic events and life history traits of the dominant species. Seed rain by willow (Salix alaxensis), alder (Alnus tenuifolia), poplar (…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prentice
Vegetation responses to climatic change can be studied retrospectively by utilizing the Quaternary fossil record. There has been controversy over the extent to which major changes in vegetation patterns at the continental scale lag behind the climatic changes that drive them,…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee, Huff
An increment borer is a precision instrument specially designed to extract a thin cylinder of wood from a tree, shrub, log or pole. It is available in a variety of sizes ranging in length from 4 inches to 40 inches. Although the increment borer is essentially a very simple…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gehring, George
Forest fire retardants can corrode aircraft and mixing, storage, and handling facilities. Extent and severity of corrosion depend on the metals involved, specific exposure, and other factors. This report provides a nontechnical description of the mechanics of such corrosion and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Susott
Describes how to compute indexes and components for the 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System using the Hewlett-Packard 71B handheld calculator and custom memory. Predicting fire behavior with the HP-71B is described in a separate publication, "Fire Behavior Computations with…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Johnson
Onsite fire retardant effectiveness is dependent on a retardant's physical (rheological) and chemical (active fire-inhibiting salt) properties. Quality control at each retardant base is necessary to assure cost-effectiveness is achieved. Using relatively simple techniques,…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith, Haines, Main
Wind tunnel measurements of temperature and velocity fields of a buoyant plume and vortex pair that formed above a heated nichrome wire are described. The differential heating and subsequent temperature gradient, transverse to the main stream flow, produced the longitudinal…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Susott, Burgan
This report describes the operation of the fire behavior prediction program available as a Custom Read Only Memory (CROM) for the Hewlett-Packard model 71B handheld calculator. Worked examples are given for each of the 13 program modules, and the inputs and outputs are…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan, Susott
If your Texas Instruments TI-59 is nearing its last gasp, you can replace it with a newer calculator and enjoy the use of improved fire danger and fire behavior programs. The Hewlett-Packard HP-71B handheld calculator has been selected to replace the TI-59 and is now available…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
Describes BURN Subsystem, Part 1, the operational fire behavior prediction subsystem of the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. The manual covers operation of the computer program, assumptions of the mathematical models used in the calculations, and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Anderson, Hales
The critical path method (CPM) of network analysis (a) depicts precedence among the many activities in a project by a network diagram; (b) identifies critical activities by calculating their starting, finishing, and float times; and (c) displays possible schedules by…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Byram, Martin
[Excerpted from text] Most experienced firefighters have encountered fire whirlwinds. These whirls, or "fire devils" as they are sometimes called, range in size from small twisters a foot or two in diameter up to violent whirls equal to small tornadoes in size and intensity.…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Weihs, Small
Multiple nuclear weapon bursts in an urban area could lead to separate large area fires. If sufficiently far apart, each fire burns independently and little, if any, fire spread is expected. For small separations, the flow fields generated by each fire can interact and fire…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES