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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schullery
From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCleese
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, Lawson, Alexander, Van Wagner, McAlpine, Lynham, Dube
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Woodward, Titus
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Payette, Morneau, Sirois, Desponts
The recent fire history of northern Quebec biomes (54 000 km2), including the northern Boreal Forest, the southern and northern Forest—Tundra, and the Shrub Tundra, was documented by examining size and dates of 20th century wildfires using tree ring techniques. Results showed…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chrosciewicz
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartigan
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell, Bevilacqua, Stocks
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beaufait, Fischer
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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee, Hellman
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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sando, Dobbs
From the Introduction: 'It is only recently, however, that prescribed burning has been introduced in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and, consequently, relatively few peple in these provinces are experienced in its use. It is for this reason that this note has been prepared-to serve…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chandler
From the summary ... ' In summary, the results of these large scale fire tests, conducted under marginal burning conditions, were negative; but, paradoxically, I find this very heartening, for we can now be much more confident in our predictions of fire behavior to be expected…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamilton, Salazar, Palmer
Controlling wildfires within the wildland/urban interface has proven to be the most complex challenge facing wildland fire agencies. Although program improvements to increase the efficiency of interface suppression efforts have been suggested, the availability of information…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
This paper analysizes wind speed and direction distributions obtained at nine forestry stations and nine airports across Canada. The effect of differences in the distributions on forest fire danger rating is discussed. The major finding is that forestry stations have a…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pech
Seven composite samples of western red cedar and western hemlock logging slash of 0.25 to 2 inches diameter were exposed on top of and within the bottom third of a fuel bed in the interior wet belt of British Columbia in August 1965. Their moisture contents were measured…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Litwin
Wet and dry bulb temperatures from ventilated and non-ventilated screens can be used to obtain realistic values of relative humidity provided the appropriate psychometric coefficient is used. However, relative humidity from non-ventilated screens are subject to significant error…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
The Sundance Fire and its impressive run were not due to any new phenomena but the combination of several important factors. Extremely dry fuels and favourable weather conditions existed at the time; the atmospheric winds increased steadily thorughout the day, and the fire did…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McEneaney
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Higgins, Kruse, Piehl
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Romme, Despain
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beaufait, Fischer
Fire managers require 24-hour records of temperature, relative humidity, and windspeed to use fire efficiently and effectively. When carefully calibrated and interpreted, modified hygrothermographs provide minimum instrumentation to obtain these records. An actual case of record…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES