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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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George
The effectiveness of long-term fire retardants is related to the concentration of the active fire-inhibiting salt. Quality control at each retardant base is necessary to assure that maximum effectiveness is obtained. This note describes simple field methods for determining the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips, Barney
Provides tables and performance curves for estimating rates of fireline construction for bulldozers built between 1965 and 1983. Data are derived from productivity indexes furnished by bulldozer manufacturers and have not been confirmed by field trials. Construction rates are…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tsang
Laboratory experiments on line thermals are performed. Richards' earlier experimental findings are examined. Better experimental constants for the governing equations of a thermal are obtained. Quantitative comparison between the theoretical flow pattern obtained by Csanady's…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
'If it hadn't been for that damn fire whirl we would have caught it at 5 acres,' yelled the fire boss to his assistant as they watched the fire crews mop up the final smoldering spots in a 250-acre brush fire. The fire had been contained at about 5 acres, and the crew had just…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Countryman
'Humidity' is an eight-letter word that is heard around fire camps and on the fireline almost as often as the more widely known four-letter words. Most firefighters know that humidity has something to do with moisture in the air. If it is low, they expect difficulty in…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chase
Extends equations for calculating the maximum spot fire distance to include wind-driven fires burning in surface fuels as a firebrand source. Predictions are based upon prevailing windspeed, vegetational cover, and local terrain. The equations can be used on a programmable…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel
Aerial ignition devices are being used which can start fires by a succession of point sources or by a line of fire. Through the use of these devices, the fire manager has considerable control of the fire situation. Control of the ultimate fire behavior depends on the ignition…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini
[Excerpted from text] During a period of three days in mid-February 1983, bushfires swept over 400,000 ha in southern Australia, killing 74 people, destroying more than 2,000 homes, and burning out 7 towns. This tragic repetition of the fires of January 1939, in which 71 people…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kuettner
It is now well known that parallel cloud bands are widespread in the earth's atmosphere. Observations from manned and unmanned spacecraft and from high-altitude aircraft in connection with soundings from ships and ground stations have shed light on their origin. These and a…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wood, Blackshear, Jr., Eckert
Quantitative experimental measurements include burning rate, wick temperature distribution, and flame radiation heat flux distributions to the fuel surface as a function of time after ignition. The radiation heat flux is measured with four radiometers which view the flame from…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kourtz, O'Regan
A computer-based model of a small smouldering or creeping forest fire has been designed to simulate burned and burning areas of a fire at any time after ignition. The model assumes that a fire spreads in a grid whose squares are homogeneous fuel types. The arrangement of fuel…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Rothermel
This manual documents the fuel modeling procedures of BEHAVE--a state-of-the-art wildland fire behavior prediction system. Described are procedures for collecting fuel data, using the data with the program, and testing and adjusting the fuel model.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS), implemented in 1972, has been revised and reissued as the 1978 NFDRS. This report describes the full developmental history of the NFDRS, including purpose, technical foundation, and structure. Includes an extensive bibliography and…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer
Outlines a procedure for fire management planning for parks; wilderness areas; and other wild, natural, or essentially undeveloped areas. Discusses background and philosophy of wilderness fire management, planning concepts, planning elements, and planning methods.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donoghue, Paananen
Presents an overview of the American legal system; describes the relations and interactions between the Forest Service and legal system components and processes; discusses how individuals enter, move through, and leave the legal system; and describes the current status of Forest…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eza, McMinn, Dress
ANNOTATION: The Wood Residue Distribution Simulator (WORDS) attempts to find a least-cost allocation of residues from local sources of supply to local sources of demand, given the cost of the materials, their distribution, and the distribution of demand. The results are useful…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George
The effectiveness of long-term fire retardants is related to the concentration of the active fire-inhibiting salt. Quality control at each retardant base is necessary to assure that maximum effectiveness is obtained. This note describes simple field methods for determing the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reed
The effects of the risk of fire or other unpredictable catastrophe on the optimal rotation period of a forest stand are investigated. It is demonstrated that when fires occur in a time-independent Poisson process, and cause total destruction, the policy effect of the fire risk…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Euler
Fire is portrayed as both a natural and an inescapable fact of life in North American forests and the adaptability of the forest environment to periodic fire is discussed. The effect of fire on wildlife habitat and patterns, and the role of fire in regulating biotic productivity…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson, Dell
Today more than a billion acres of forest and rangeland in the United States are managed under some form of organized fire protection. On much of this wildland, there is a buildup of flammable fuels that under critical burning conditions can feed disastrous forest fires. The…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogl
...fire has been generally misrepresented. It is a neglected factor in many forests. Fire needs public understanding and acceptance. We should compare fire's beneficial effects to its well-known detrimental effects before we dismiss all fire as bad, and all wood smog as…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Hilton
This paper reports on the effects on lowbush blueberries and associated species of pruning by two methods of burning and by mechanical clipping, on three dates in the growing season at a north-eastern Ontario location. Significant soil changes recorded during the study are…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Becker, Phillips, Keller
Pyrolysis of white pine wood has been studied in thin samples (1.6 mm thick slabs) exposed in an oven at 199-365 degrees C and in thick samples (8-50 mm diam branch segments) exposed in a wind tunnel at 365-525 degrees C and 3-18 m/s wind speed. In the limit case of sufficiently…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Becker, Phillips
In a previous study, single sticks of dry white pine 8-50 mm diam were exposed in a high-termperature wind tunnel providing effective wind speeds of 3-18 m/s. The working section wall temperature and gas temperature were equal, 357-857 degrees C. Several regimes of behavior were…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
Changes in the small mammal community in recently logged upland Black Spruce (Picea mariana) and mixedwood stands near Manitouwadge, Ontario, were documented for two to three years after a light fire in early summer and after a severe fire in late summer. Populations on the two…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS