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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Simard
This report provides a comprehensive set of statistics describing the use of air tankers for wildland fire control in Canada from 1957 to 1977. It considers the number and type of aircraft used, the amount and type of retardant dropped, system costs, and trends in the data.…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Gruell
Grazing impact by elk and moose has been a point of concern in Jackson Hole for many years. Concern has been primarily directed toward sparsely vegetated south aspects, aspen stands, and willow bottoms. Numerous transects have quantified heavy forage utilization. Trend studies…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simard, Graham, Young, Redmond
This report provides a set of Canadian forest fire statistics for the period 1961 to 1966. Data for 43,796 fires from every fire Control agency in Canada were processed and stored on magnetic tape. This report contains statistics on fire occurrence and fire suppression. Under…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Main
Since the publication of 'Meteorological Drought' by Wayne Palmer (1965), the Palmer Index has become the most widely used operational measure of soil moisture conditions in the United States. The Index has been applied in such diverse fields as forest pest control, wildfire…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lyon, Basile
Road construction and timber harvesting displace elk and grizzly bears at least temporarily. Elk sometimes accept logging disturbances, but usually do not return until harvesting ends. Increased contact between grizzly bears and humans is undesirable. Logging slash may increase…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hoff, Froude
The particulate plume from the power plant of Great Canadian Oil Sands, Ltd. was observed using a mobile laser radar (LIDAR). Thirteen Eulerian average cross sections were obtained from which the horizontal and vertical dispersion coefficients, plume rise and plume bearing were…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kessell
The purpose of this special Fire Management issue of ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT is to report on examples of progress toward the goal of integrating fire into land management.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Pierovich
'On the first poster board of the series is seen a media montage ranging from covers of hearing records...to those for legislation and regulation...to environmental and resource management issues (including a typically misleading newspaper headline)...to scientific literature...…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

From the text... 'This initial release of these Guidelines reflects the efforts of the Fire Management Task Force and subsequent review by park, regional and WASO staff. It represents the framework of the Service fire management program. The WASO Office of Fire Management,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Gorte, Gorte
The USDA Forest Service policy adopted in 1935 calls for fast, aggressive fire suppresssion action. Economic considerations, first voiced in 1916, quieted after 1935, until the 1960's and 1970's. The most common technique proposed is least-cost-plus-loss; the objective is to…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Barden
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Manthy
In summary, I am sympathetic with the concerns of fire management over the need for additional training of fire management practitioners, but I reject the suggested solution. The options to a new curriculum have not been adequately considered, and the costs of the employment,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Martini
College curriculums in fire management are not producing people who are qualified to do a total fire management job for hiring fire agencies. Most schools are offering only 2-3 credits in fire that are poorly taught and often downgraded in value by the faculty. This creates an…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Gemmer
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Johnson
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Davis
Federal, state, and local agencies, working through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, have developed a National Interagency Fire Qualification System (NIFQS). NIFQS sets uniform standards for fire suppression work, specifying prerequisite jobs, currency of experience,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Miller
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bowman
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Cohen, Burgan
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Iltis, Guzman, Pazy
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Anonymous
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

This report evaluates 24 computer-aided decision support systems (DSS) that can support management decision-making in forest ecosystems. It compares the scope of each system, spatial capabilities, computational methods, development status, input and output requirements, user…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fleming
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Oliveira, Viegas, Raimundo
A control volume numerical method is used to predict the temperature distribution inside a soil extent, the surface of which has been swept by a two-dimensional flame front with pre-defined velocity and temperature distributions. Natural and forced convection, as well as…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Cheney, Gould
The use of the terms 'growth' and 'acceleration' appears to be inconsistent in the literature and we believe this inconsistency has hindered our understanding of behaviour in the early stages of a fire. The development of a fire from a point ignition to some equilibrium state…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES