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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bunnell
From the Summary: 'There are several reasons to use helitorch ignition instead of hand ignition. Three primary reasons are safety of ground ignition personnel, cost effectiveness, and ability to meet resource objectives.'
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lafferty
From the Introduction: 'In British Columbia several aerial ignition systems are used: the gas/diesel/JP-4 drip torch, the gelled gasoline helitorch, and the aerial ignition device (AID). This paper deals mainly with the experiences of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. (MB) and Forest…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Curtis
From the Summary ...'Successful prescribed burning on steep slopes in heavy fuels demands good preparation and planning from the start to the finish. Don*t overload the burn unit with fire fighters. Use only the personnel needed to accomplish the burn. It will not be easy and…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter
From the Conclusions ... 'The coordination of the helitorch operations, such as support services, unit ignition procedures, and timing, is of a critical nature. It is imperative that a smooth flow of effort be immediately established and maintained throughout a burn. Oversights…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lionberger
From the Introduction: 'Aerial ignition, as a part of prescribed fire and wildfire management, is rapidly growing in popularity. Since the early 1970's when development began, many improvements have been made by both the private sector and government agencies. The 'flying drip…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
The magnitude of prescribed fire use has greatly increased in the past 10 years. With this expanded use of fire came a need for aerial ignition devices and techniques. This paper reports the preliminary findings of a nationwide survey of active aerial ignition prfactitioners.…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the Final Remarks...'Designing fire prescriptions to meet today's demand for skill and professionalism requires an orderly planning process. At the start of this process, fire objectives must be derived from land managment objectives and specifically stated in terms of what…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman
From the Introduction ... ' As prescribed fire became more widely understood and applied in the U.S. in the decades following World War II, forest managers routinely used aircraft for various purposes in prescribed fire operations. In the U.S., this most often was the helicopter…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Watson
From the text ... 'The Société de Conservation de l*Outaouais, which protects 80 000 km2 southwestern Quebec timberland against fire, has been experimenting with lightning location systems, in an attempt to minimize the problem of lightning caused fires. The experiments, using…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan
Prescribed burning is increasingly being used under standing timber for site preparation and fuels management. Managers need guidelines for determining species and individual tree characteristics that are potentially capable of incurring minimal injury from a fire treatment. A…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
From the summary ... 'Thermal infrared systems have been utilized by the Forest Service and other agencies for fire management and other purposes for about 20 years. A variety of equipment ranging from simple, low capability instruments to technologically complex systems…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donoghue, Paananen
From the text ... 'Ninety-one percent of all wildifres occuring in the United States are caused by human activities. From 1974 through 1978, an average of 128,092 fires burned 1,814,943 acres of forest and other protected land (USDA Forest Service 1972-1980). In region 9 alone (…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Main, Straub, Paananen
From the text 'One of the missions of wildland fire management is to integrate fire with other land management activities to achieve desired objectives at the lowest cost. When fire managers know how fires are likely to behave in an area as well as that area*s associated weather…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Matson, Schneider, Aldridge, Satchwell
This report discusses the potential usefulness of thermal infrared sensors onboard NOAA polar-orbiting satelites for detecting fires. In particular, the 3.8-micron channel is sensitive to high temperature sources such as fires. This paper will demonstrate how the 3.8-micron…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Caldwell
From the text... 'Governments own most of our forest and because of the lumberjacks* work they have gathered great armsful of gold. Governments should not be responsible for forest management because with every political change policy vacillates. We have never had a consistent…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This report provides information and comment on a number of practical aspects of the line intersect method, including specific equations for volume and weight for various sets of units; problems of orientation bias and sample layout; diameter-class limits and centres; use of the…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Calliari, Cantiani
An experimental model is described for simulating the dynamics of the initial phase of a forest fire in a conifer stand with a wind blowing persistently in the same direction. It is shown that the characteristic burns on the bark at the base of the stem make it possible to…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shafizadeh, Sekiguchi
In view of the significance of the properties and reactions of chars during the process of smoldering combustion, a series of cellulosic chars was prepared at temperatures ranging from 340 to 6000C and their pyrolysis and combustion properties were studied by thermal analysis.…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
An ad hoc method of deriving quadratic mean diameters for use in the line intersect method, without extra field work, is described. It requires an assumption that the diameters tallied in any actual line intersect survey are distributed according to a simple power law. The…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mallik, Gimingham, Rahman
(1) Measurements were made of water infiltration, water retention and porosity of soils of burned and unburned plots of heathland. (2) On the burned plot the rate of infiltration was decreased by up to 74% compared to the unburned plot. (3) Moisture retention in the top soil of…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pimm
Early studies suggested that simple ecosystems were less than complex ones, but later studies came to the opposite conclusion. Confusion arose because of the many different meanings of 'complexity' and 'stability'. Most of the possible questions about the relationship between…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Green
Fire has been a major source of instability in the postglacial forests surrounding Everitt Lake in southwest Nova Scotia. Time series analyses of preserved pollen and charcoal reveal the processes involved. Correlograms and pollen sequence splits confirm that prior to 6000 years…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Biging, Wensel
A method of photographing and digitizing radial growth on section rounds from destructively sampled trees for stem analysis was developed and compared in accuracy against hand measurements on those same rounds. Results indicated a high degree of correlation between photographic…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Crane
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS