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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Adams
The results of controlled burning on cut-over jack pine sites in southeastern Manitoba can be summarized as follows: (1) The fire hazard resulting from jack pine slash was eliminated on all the areas burned. (2) On most areas a good proportion of the organic material was removed…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDonald, Schimke
The the Challenge Experimental Forest, 29 acres of slash were broadcast burned on five small clearcut plots (2 to 10 acres) at a cost of $57.00 per acre. Fuel-weight measurements showed reductions of 68 to 84% after the burn. Modifications to plot size, shape, and orientation…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text...'A fire-control problem of major proportions in B.C., as in many other areas, results from hazardous accumulations of logging slash. The basic question is whether it is wiser to give cut-over areas added protection and tolerate the increased hazards introduced by…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This report is a bibliography of publications on all aspects of forest fire produced during the period 1961 to 1974 at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station. There are 52 items, listed chronologically in four categories. A short descriptive note accompanies each item.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roussopoulos
A fuel hazard rating system was devised for eastern logging slash similar to that of the National Fire Danger Rating System. It involves a series of CALCOMP plots that graphically display normalized predictions of rate of spread and fireline intensity as related to slash species…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A series of three 4—acre plots in a jack pine cut over were burned at three degrees of fire hazard. The weather, fire behaviour, and effects are reported, and a general conclusion drawn by others was confirmed: slash hazard is reduced by any running fire, but certain desired…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
It is generally recognized that logging slash, by increasing the concentration of forest fuels, creates a high forest fire hazard. The most severe fire hazard is found on clearcuts where fuels are usually continuous and exposed to the dessicating effects of prevailing weather…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldrup, Jordan
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cooper
Prescribed burning is a preferred treatment in many fuel management situations because of its low cost, campatibility with other land-use objectives, and little or not undesirable side effects. The problems, limitations, and associated consequences of fire treatments are…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruner
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Roussopoulos
In testing accuracy of the planar intersect method, bias due to nonhorizontal orientation of woody particles ranged from 8 to 39 percent. Bias due to the use of arithmetic average diameters instead of quadratic mean diameters for solving volume equations ranged from 9 to 16…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beaufait
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schroeder, Chandler
From tabulated frequency distributions of fire danger indexes for a nationwide network of 89 stations, the probabilities of four types of fire behavior ranging from 'fire out' to 'critical' were calculated for each month and are shown in map form.
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pryor, Yuill
A program was undertaken to define the life hazard in a mass fire environment resulting from nuclear attack. The nature of casualties and hazards in peacetime and wartime fires was reviewed, and experimental efforts to simulate mass fire situations were studied. This state-of-…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hull, O'Dell, Schroeder
Weather is one of the dominant factors responsible for uncontrollable spread of mass fires in both urban and rural areas. Identification of the weather types causing critical burning conditions in 14 contiguous regions of the United States was the subject of the previous report…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lancaster
Increased capabilities of the National Fire Danger Rating System have given fire managers new tools for evaluating various facets of fire management problems. Examples of suggested approaches for use of NFDR numbers in prevention, presuppression planning, and in initial attack…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viereck
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Daubenmire
[no description entered]
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS