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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Morton
A short session on vortices in the atmosphere and other rotating systems was included in the I.U.T.A.M. Symposium on Concentrated Vortex Motions in Fluids held at Ann Arbor. During this session it appeared that fluid dynamicists were interested in the behaviour of tornadoes,…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Welker, Sliepcevich
The bending of a flame by wind influences the amount of heat transferred by radiation and convection, the fuel burning rate, and the flame spread rate. To what extent will a flame be bent by wind? The author presents correlations of data taken from liquid pool fires, which…
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
Brown
[Excerpted from text] In 1949, 32 men died as a direct result of forest fires on national forest, State, and private lands. Most of them lost their lives because of extreme fire conditions which resulted in blow-ups. These comments will be confined to these special situations.…
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno
This paper attempts to survey timberlines of western North America in a manner primarily designed to serve public interpreters of natural history, such as park naturalists. Hopefully, this broad discussion of the timberlines will also be of interest to biologists and some…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutz
Description not entered.
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harris
In 1957, circular plots in a burnt clear-felled area, in old-growth Western Hemlock and Sitka Spruce and in an adjacent unburnt area, were sown after burning, first by hand and again, 3 months later, from the air. Results were assessed from initial seedling establishment (from…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Furniss
Alaska Forest Insect Conditions Report for 1950. Areas investigated include south-central and interior Alaska along the road system and southeast Alaska
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lawrence, Hulbert
Lupinus spp. and Alnus crispa subsp. sinuata are the first plants to look healthy and grow rapidly on cold raw mineral deposits exposed through glacier recession. Lupin causes associated willows, grasses and fire-weed to bloom and to grow several times as fast as plants growing…
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heilman
Forest succession on north slopes in interior Alaska results in the development of sphagnum bogs on sites formerly occupied by productive forest. This process is one of gradual deterioration of site associated with the accumulation of moss layers on the forest floor. Advancing…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cowan, Hoar, Hatter
Quantity of available palatable browse, vitamin content of available trees and shrubs, and moisture, protein, carbohydrate, ether extractive, and total mineral content, were determined for 3 stages in forest succession in British Columbia, in order to explain the cause of the…
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brink, Dean
Feeding trials from Nov. 1962 through June 1963, in an outdoor enclosure in Alaska, showed that red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) can survive for 3 weeks and possibly more, solely on Picea glauca seed, consuming ca. 144 cones/day/squirrel, but they thrive poorly on P.…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knight
Burning experiments conducted in the labortory indicated a 25-64 per cent loss of nitrogen from the forest floor at temperatures of 300-700ºC. Burning increased the nitrogen concentration of the residual material, but the total amount of nitrogen decreased. This may explain the…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS