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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Wildland firefighter safety and fire behavior prediction on the fireline

Alexander, Taylor, Page
Using the 2013 Yarnell Hill fatality fire in Arizona as a backdrop, this paper considers whether the global wildland fire community has failed on-the-ground firefighters. To begin answering this question two specific lines of inquiry are addressed: (i) was the fire behavior…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Stress and strain terminology [Chapter 1]

Levitt
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Niche theory

Vandermeer
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Research opportunities and needs in the taiga of Alaska [review draft copy]

Helmers, Cushwa
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Substances contributing to fire-induced water repellency in soils

Savage, Osborn, Heaton
At 300-400 C, aliphatic hydrocarbons coming from undecomposed and partially decomposed plant materials heated in the lab induced water-repellency in sand. The water-repellent substances were not extractable with solvents and were thought to be polar molecules.
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Smokey isn't ready to retire

[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The life history of Douglas fir

Allen, Owens
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The nature of stress injury and resistance [Chapter 2]

Levitt
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire Ecology Project research plan for 1973

Kickert, Taylor, Behan
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The fire environment concept

Countryman
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The ecology of forestry: the ecological role of man, the forester, in forest ecosystems

Kimmins
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Small angle x-ray scattering study of oak charcoals

von Bastian, Schmidt, Szopa, McGinnes
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Natural areas as necessary components of man's total environment

Odum, Odum
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Niche overlap as a function of environmental variability

May, MacArthur
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

High-temperature or heat stress [Chapter 11]

Levitt
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Heat resistance [Chapter 12]

Levitt
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wet hay or dry silage can cause destructive fires

[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ecology of salt marshes and sand dunes

Ranwell
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Thermal decomposition kinetics of wood pyrolysis

Kanury
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The rate of decomposition of silica particles in an augmented flame

Johnston
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire Ecology investigations in Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness: historical considerations and current observations

Habeck
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A survey of airtankers and their use

Simard, Forster
'One of the most dramatic technological breakthroughs in forest fire suppression in recent years has been the development and use of airtankers...World War II surplus aircraft were available at a modest cost and many forest fire protection agencies developed an airtanker…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Towards a new paradigm in fire severity research using dose-response experiments

Smith, Sparks, Kolden, Abatzoglou, Talhelm, Johnson, Boschetti, Lutz, Apostol, Yedinak, Tinkham, Kremens
Most landscape-scale fire severity research relies on correlations between field measures of fire effects and relatively simple spectral reflectance indices that are not direct measures of heat output or changes in plant physiology. Although many authors have highlighted…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The ability of winter grazing to reduce wildfire size and fire-induced plant mortality was not demonstrated: a comment on Davies et al. (2015)

Smith, Talhelm, Kolden, Newingham, Adams, Cohen, Yedinak, Kremens
A recent study by Davies et al. sought to test whether winter grazing could reduce wildfire size, fire behaviour and intensity metrics, and fire-induced plant mortality in shrub-grasslands. The authors concluded that ungrazed rangelands may experience fire-induced mortality of…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The science of firescapes: achieving fire-resilient communities

Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS