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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Interior Alaska white spruce-hardwoods

Zasada, Argyle
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

When it's hot, it's hot ... or maybe it's not! (surface flaming may not portend extensive soil heating)

Hartford, Frandsen
Fire effects on aplant community, soil, and air are not apparent when judged only by surface fire intensity. The fire severity or fire impact can be described by the temperatures reached within the forest floor and the duration of heating experienced in the vegetation, forest…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed burning background document and technical information document for prescribed burning best available control measures

From the text...'The purpose of this document is to provide technical information on prescribed burning. It does so in two ways. One, it provides background information useful in determining reasonably available control measures (RACM) and best available control measures (BACM)…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Decision analysis of prescribed burning

Radloff, Yancik
From the text:'This paper desribes two generalized decision models that partically characterize decision processes for the evaluation and execution of prescribed fires. Although the two models do not incorporate all the factors managers must consider in planning for prescribed…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Monoammonium phosphate: effect on flammability of excelsior and pine needles

Blakely
The study quantified differences between fire-retarding abilities of monoammonium phosphate samples from five different sources. Ponderosa pine needles and aspen excelsior fuel beds were spray-treated with different levels of chemical solutions, dried, and burned under…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Aerial ingiters provide a new dimension to indirect attack

Quintilio, Bisgrove, Van
This paper reviews the unique aerial ignition device developed originally in Australia and the chronological work in Canada that eventually produced the Aerial Ignition Device and the Helitorch. It is of interest to note that the project has gone full circle in that Australia…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The use of prescribed fire in the management of Canada's forested lands

Weber, Taylor
Present uses of prescribed fire in Canada are reviewed. Fire has been a natural component of many forested North American landscapes for millennia, making it an obvious choice as an effective forest management tool. It can be used in harmony with known fire adaptations of…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An evaluation of current prescribed fire reporting practices

Brandel, Omi
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest ecosystems and fire hazard in central Saskatchewan

Chrosciewicz
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

FIREMAP - simulation of fire growth with a geographic information system

Vasconcelos, Guertin
FIREMAP is a simulation system designed to estimate wildfire characteristics in spatially non-uniform environments and simulate the growth of fire in discrete time steps. This simulation system integrates Rothermel's behavior prediction model (Rothermel 1972) with a raster-…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Integrating fire management analysis into land management planning

Mills
The analysis of alternative fire management programs should be integrated into the land and resource management planning process, but a single fire management analysis model cannot meet all planning needs. Therefore, a set of simulation models that are analytically separate from…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

LLAFFS: a lightning-locating and fire-forecasting system

Latham
This paper presents a system for locating lightning strikes and predicting the number of fire ignitions on forests and rangelands. This system uses variables representing weather and fuels and real-time lightning locations as inputs. Outputs from the system consist of printouts…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Constructing and testing logistic regression models for binary data: applications to the National Fire Danger Rating System

Loftsgaarden, Andrews
Logistic regression was used in examining the relationship between National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) indexes and historical fire occurrence data. Basic techniques of constructing and testing logistic regression models are presented at a modest mathematical level. The…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Analysis of extreme wildfire behavior in east-central Alberta: a case study

Alexander, Janz, Quintilio
A large region of central and western Canada experienced a particularly severe forest fire season during 1980 in terms of the number of fire starts, area burned, and suppression expenditures. In Alberta, most of the fire occurred during April and May in the northern half of the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS