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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Radford
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ramseur
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sims
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis, Dieterich
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
A study was made of the fuel complex in 70-year old lodgepole pine stands in west-central Alberta to facilitate measurement and prediction of weight-and-size distribution of fuel components. Results showed that the weight of the entire fuel complex increased with increasing…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
From the Introduction ... 'It is a well known fact that the presence of moisture exerts considerable influence on the difficulty of ignition and the subsequent rate of combustion of forest fuels. Its effect on ignition is primarily a result of the fact that the water must be…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nelson
From the Summary ... 'Fire, whether wild or controlled, has been shown to benefit big game in a variety of ways. Following fire, understory vegetation usually reestablishes more luxuriant than before, often increasing carrying capacity for big game several-fold. In addition, new…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Smathers
From the text ... 'The primary objective of this study is to develop fire policy recommendations for the management of Lava Beds National Monument which will aid in the restoration and preservation of 'pristine' conditions by natural means.Before this objective can be met,…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sanderson
From the Summary ... 'As fire management is integrated into land management, the decisions made will determine how, when, and where fire will be used or suppressed.The most pronounced changes in the direction in which fire management is moving are the reduction of accumulations…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Orme, Leege
From the Summary and Conclusions ... 'Large wildfires in the early 1900's burned over many of the low elevation forests in northern Idaho. Seral plant communities of grasses, forbs, and shrubs followed these wildfires and created important big game winter ranges. Redstem…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McLeod
From the Conclusions ... 'The results of the research to date have demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of microwave moisture sensing as a valuable tool in watershed management. Specifically, the protable moisture meter allows rapid, on site measurement of fuel moisture…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyon, Stickney
From the Summary and Conclusions ... 'Forest succession in the Northern Rocky Mountains is not an autogenic process in which initial seral plants modify the site to their own exclusion and permit the establishment of interseral and eventually climax species. Rather, succession…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Habeck
From the Conclusions and Summary ... 'The vegetation within the SBW represents a generally typical array of forest communities of the sort found in much of northern Idaho and western Montana. For tens of thousands of years the flora in this region has evolved in the presence of…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
From the Introduction: 'The purpose of the present study is to determine the rate at which various fuels can absorb water. The present study is concerned primarily with relative absorption and drying rates between various types of fuels. Future research will attempt to determine…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Thomas
Because cribs of wood are widely used to produce experimental fires it is sometimes necessary to predict their burning behavior especially when their burning rate is not controlled primarily by some other factor such as the window opening in a compartment. If the window is large…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
From the text ... 'Improved utilization of bark is dependent, to a large degree, on knowledge of its properties. Very little information is available on physical properties of bark, however, and none is available on volumetric changes of bark due to moisture sorption. A…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ahlstrand
From the text... 'Although the National Park Service has been largely successful in operating park lands for the enjoyment of the public. preservation attempts have oftentimes impaired these natural areas by bringing about unplanned and undesired changes in the ecosystems (Stone…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Webb
From the text... 'Of all the meteorological elements which are known to affect forest fuel flammability and fire behaviour, rain is the most variable in its areal distribution. in its frequency, and particularly in its amount. While the measurement of rainfall is simple,…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A method for estimating wood volume on the ground is described. It requires only a diameter tally of pieces intersected by a sample line, and application of a simple formula. Theory for the formula is presented, and practical application discussed. The effect of bias in…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner
This note outlines the objectives and problems of prescribed burning as a tool of forest management. The importance of a number of weather factors is discussed and suggestions are presented for provision of effective weather guidance to forest officers concerned with this…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, Walker
From the text... 'It has long been recognized in forestry that minor vegetation leafing out on the forest floor in the early spring retards the advance of surface fires. This experiment was designed to provide some general understanding of this effect. The work was done in the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS