This Report describes the construction of an index of the relative rate of spread of crowning forest fires during spring and early summer. It depends on the proposition that conifer crowns are more flammable during this period because the moisture...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Van Wagner
Year: 1974
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
The use of chemical fire retardants in forest ecosystems creates a number of potential problems in land management. The properties, application, and known side-effects of chemical retardants are therefore reviewed from the point of view of ecological...
Person: Douglas
Year: 1974
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the Introduction:'The technique selected for measuring the pyrolysis energy involved the use of the Perkin-Elmer DSC-2 Differential Scanning Calorimeter and TS-1 Thermogravimetric Balane. The TGS-1 also used a Cahn Time Derivative Computer to...
Person: Welker, Duvvuri
Year: 1974
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
The performance of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) is analyzed with respect to wildfire behavior in Ontario for a 7-year period (1965-1971). Lightning fires and man-caused fires are analyzed separately and regional differences in fire...
Person: Stocks
Year: 1974
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the Introduction:'The objective of EDST 1710, Firing and Line Holding Devices, is to improve safety and efficiency in prescribed burning and wildfire control through the development of equipment for firing and line holding. There has been a...
Person: Ramberg
Year: 1974
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text:'The computer program FIREDAT was run and the cumulate percentage of ignition components used to determine the class boundaries. The only percents green used were10-30-50, corresponding to cured, transition and green in the old...
Person: Main
Year: 1974
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) was issued in 1970 after several years' work by a number of fire researchers in the Canadian Forestry Service. The best features of the former fire danger index were incorporated in the FWI, and a link...
Person: Van Wagner
Year: 1974
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the Introduction: 'Forest fire control agencies in Canada keep records of fire occurrences. Generally, these records summarize the characteristics of individual forest fires and are often stored on a computer-oriented device, usually magnetic...
Person: Maloney, Todd
Year: 1974
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Air flow in the natural environment affects the distribution of organisms, mechnical stresses, heat losses by convection, and moisture distribution. Air flow was visualized by bubble tracers in a wind tunnel, and the flow patterns over solid barriers 5...
Person: Moen
Year: 1974
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
This report is a bibliography of publications on all aspects of forest fire produced during the period 1961 to 1974 at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station. There are 52 items, listed chronologically in four categories. A short descriptive note...
Person: Van Wagner
Year: 1974
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS