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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Benefield
From the text ... 'Should we abandon the practice of downhill line construction? No. We can, however, reduce risk to acceptable levels with proper preparation. Guidelines in The Fireline Handbook (NWCF 1998) provide the foundation for assessing and mitigating the risks involved…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wheeler
From the text ... 'Most deck material is tested for flame spread rates but not necessarily for ignition potential or energy production. ...If decks ignite during a wildland fire, the fire could reach proportions that would break windows and doors, igniting structures with…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'We can improve preparedness and suppression, but until we better manage fuel buildups and growth in the wildland/urban interface, the gains will be marginal. ...We need fire protection programs that are ecologically appropriate, socially acceptable, and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bosworth
From the text ... 'A policy of allowing all fires to burn would be just as flawed as the old policy of putting them all out. ...Our policy is to use fire where we can and suppress fire where we must.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McIntire
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
de Groot, Bothwell, Taylor, Wotton, Stocks, Alexander
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butler, Cohen, Latham, Schuette, Sopko, Shannon, Jimenez, Bradshaw
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor, Wotton, Alexander, Dalrymple
Fire spread and flame temperature were examined in a series of nine experimental crown fires conducted in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Average rates of spread were 17.8–66.8 m·min–1 (0.3–1.1 m·s–1) over burning periods from about 1.5–10 min across 75 m × 75 m to 150 m ×…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... 'The tree-ring community has successfully overcome the data archiving hurdles that Sue Silver discussed in her September 2003 editorial. We have developed two public data banks that are models of international coopertion in ecological data archiving and sharing…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Connor
From the text ... 'During my 24 years as a wildland firefighter, knowing that I had protected someone's home or community has always made my chest swell. ...The ying and yang of firefighting is partly this: By suppressing fire for so many decades, we have let fuels build up to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... 'The evidence that American Indians used fire to shape their environments is too strong to simply dismiss or ignore. ...The whole country had 'the appearance of a beautiful park. A deer could be seen at a distance of a quarter mile, and a carriage could be…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'Where arid and semiarid landscapes were not already to their liking, American Indians often changed them. ...Broadcast burning was so useful for American Indians that it persisted into the early 20th century. ...Indian-set fires differed from natural fires in…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brauneis
From the text ... 'The Sioux and Cheyenne traditionally set fire to the prairie as they moved their summer camps in pursuit of game. ...The Great Sioux War provides a sharp contrast in how two different cultures with diverse values and objectives utilized fire. ...Many fires set…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ciriacy-Wantrup
From the text ... 'Evaluation of costs and returns is undertaken trough various formal and informal techniques know in economics as 'benefit-cost analysis.' Application of such analysis to the use of fire can benefit from the experience gained in the economic analysis of water…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Skarra
From the text ... 'The application of prescribed burning techniques on Indian reservations ... has been accomplished under approved programs for many years.' © 1969, Tall Timbers Research, Inc. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hendrickson
From the text ... 'We do not today countenance or use fire everywhere in the national park system....The National Park Service has the obligation to continue to seek to inform the American people on the significance of fire.' © 1972, Tall Timbers Research, Inc. Abstract…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wotton, McAlpine, Hobbs
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richards
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nalder, Wein, Alexander, de Groot
The quantity of dead and downed woody fuels in forests is commonly estimated using the line intersect method of sampling. Determination of the mass of wood per unit area for each size class requires values for the mean specific gravity, piece tilt angle and piece diameter. We…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prepas, Burke, Chanasyk, Smith, Putz, Gabos, Chen, Millions, Serediak
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nakamura, Woodard, Bach
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larocque, Bergeron, Campbell, Bradshaw
Rocky outcrops represent about 30% of the boreal forest of Abitibi, Québec, Canada. Although these outcrops have similar edaphic and climatic conditions, their vegetation can vary. Some are composed of a closed forest of black spruce (Picea mariana) and eastern white cedar (…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Agee
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS