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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ramsey, Higgins
The tables presented here comtain forest fire statistics for the calender year 1980 as reported by all Canadian forest fire control agencies.The statistical data are presented seperately for each province or other major jurisdiction, and for Canada as a whole. Beside each figure…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Watson
From the text ... 'The Société de Conservation de l*Outaouais, which protects 80 000 km2 southwestern Quebec timberland against fire, has been experimenting with lightning location systems, in an attempt to minimize the problem of lightning caused fires. The experiments, using…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan
Prescribed burning is increasingly being used under standing timber for site preparation and fuels management. Managers need guidelines for determining species and individual tree characteristics that are potentially capable of incurring minimal injury from a fire treatment. A…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Main, Straub, Paananen
From the text 'One of the missions of wildland fire management is to integrate fire with other land management activities to achieve desired objectives at the lowest cost. When fire managers know how fires are likely to behave in an area as well as that area*s associated weather…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This report provides information and comment on a number of practical aspects of the line intersect method, including specific equations for volume and weight for various sets of units; problems of orientation bias and sample layout; diameter-class limits and centres; use of the…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Calliari, Cantiani
An experimental model is described for simulating the dynamics of the initial phase of a forest fire in a conifer stand with a wind blowing persistently in the same direction. It is shown that the characteristic burns on the bark at the base of the stem make it possible to…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
An ad hoc method of deriving quadratic mean diameters for use in the line intersect method, without extra field work, is described. It requires an assumption that the diameters tallied in any actual line intersect survey are distributed according to a simple power law. The…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee, Emmons
The behaviour of a natural convection plume above a line fire is studied both theoretically and experimentally. In the theoretical treatment, a turbulent plume above a steady two-dimensional finite source of heated fluid in a uniform ambient fluid is investigated. By the use of…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Webster, Raftery
In flames produced by freely burning fuel, buoyancy may play an important role in determining the speed of the gases in the flame zone and hence the flame height. Measurements have been made of the height of flames from burning cribs of wood on a square horizontal base and a few…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Green
Fire has been a major source of instability in the postglacial forests surrounding Everitt Lake in southwest Nova Scotia. Time series analyses of preserved pollen and charcoal reveal the processes involved. Correlograms and pollen sequence splits confirm that prior to 6000 years…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Crane
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haven, Hunter, Storey
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harris
A method of determining moisture content (MC) of wood fuel using a microwave oven for drying the wood was evaluated by drying paired samples of five different wood fuel types in a microwave oven and a conventional oven. When compared to the convention ovendrying method, the…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell, Christophersen
The burning prescription is an integral part of the silvicultural prescription. Writing these prescriptions for site preparation objectives involves close coordination between the fire manager and silviculturist. A negotiating period during the sale planning process is necessary…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Der Toorn, Mook
'The performance of common reed, Phragmites australis, was determined in an experimental field over a period of 5 yr. The aim of this study was to establish the effects of various environmental agents that cause damage to the reed. The direct influence of the different kinds of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
The author presents a brief overview of current and potential future applications of computer technology in forest fire management. Problems commonly associated with the implementation of computer-based fire management decision-making aids are discussed together with comments…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Podzimek, Carstens, Yue
The basic thermodynamical processes leading to the formation of droplets in the central part of the Nolan-Pollak counter are analyzed in some detail. The comparison of the UMR-Absolute Aitken Nuclei counter with Nolan-Pollak, General Electric and Gardner counters showed…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parlar, Vickson
In this paper we re-examine the problem of optimal forest fire suppression which was previously studied by Parks. The growth of the fire is modelled by a deterministic differential equation in which the level of the suppression forces appears as a control variable. After…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Karl, Koscielny
'Statewide averages of temperature and precipitation, from January l895 to April 1981, were intepolated to a grid and Palmer Drought Severity Indices (PDSI) calculated for each of the grid points. Principal component (PC) analysis was performed on the gridded values of PDSI. By…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gardiner
'...With the aid of modern laboratory techniques it is possible to detect not only the end products of combustion proccsses but also many substances that appear transiently in the course of burning. As a result fire has come to be understood chemically as an intricate network of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frampton
'The burning of logging slash has been a common practice in the Pacific Northwest ever since the introduction of clear-cut logging. In those days of low stumpage and log values no one needed to be too careful of the amount of damage done and the whole business was handled pretty…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'The outcome of the Southern Forestry Education Campaign was much less devisive. To begin with, its subject was not the internal distribution of agency funds but the promotion of fire protection as a concept. Nor was it concerned with the question of transient…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'But with the advent of fire protection in the South, game birds decreased much as pasturage had and as grouse populations had in Britain. The vegetative ensemble that sustained maximum populations gave way to roughage and woods. By 1923 hunting plantations in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'It is often assumed that the American Indian was incapable of greatly modifying his environment and that he would not have been much interested in doing so if he did have the capabilities. In fact, he possessed both the tool and the will to use it. That tool…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Omi, Laven
The existing literature on wildland fire is assessed in terms of both the biological and social impacts of prescription fire on recreational wildlands. Gaps in the literature are noted and future areas of needed research are suggested, with particular emphasis on the Rocky…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS