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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Applequist
The determination of total tree age is usually based on ring counts of increment cores which ideally should pass through tree center. For several reasons the borer does not always "hit the pith," and it becomes necessary to estimate how many rings were missed. The pith locator…
Year: 1958
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
Muraro
Mensurational parameters of a range of lodgepole pine stands were correlated with loading of individual fuel components and the total fuel complex. Except for the aerial fuel components consisting of dead complex were considered inadequate for the modern fire control…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
A model for a small forest fire... to simulate burned and burning areas for use in a detection model
A computer-based model of a small smouldering or creeping forest fire has been designed to simulate burned and burning ares of a fire at any time after ignition. The model assumes that a fire spreads in a grid for a specific cover is determined by a probability distribution and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg, Schroeder
Fuel moisture inputs into fire-danger rating or fire behavior models are generally related to fuel classes. To account for as many fuels as possible and still keep the number of inputs to a minimum, we have adopted the procedure of adjusting the fine fuel moisture with respect…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
The purposes of this study are to: 1. provide burning prescriptions for hazard reduction; 2. determine if burning will improve planting-crew efficiency by reducing the physical barrier of slash accumulations; 3. evaluate the effect of burning on reversal of site deterioration by…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
The results of this study clearly indicate that during the 5-year period covered by the fire reports, the fire load during periods of High and Extreme danger exceeds the capability of the fire control agency. Changing land values and future land management demands point to the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deeming
Regardless of what meaning a user attaches to fire-danger ratings the expected fire behavior is the common base on which any interpretation ultimately depends. In order for a fire-danger rating system to be useful, it must accurately and consistently predict the basic aspects of…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dieterich, Pickford
Prescribed burning produces particulate and gaseous air pollutants in relatively small amounts over the course of an entire year. However, on any given day, the pollutants resulting from prescribed burning may constitute a major fraction of the local or regional air pollution…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Axelrod
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Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Art, Marks
A working table lists by major species, by location and by stand age, the oven dry weights of biomass and net annual primary production as well as the leaf area index for over 280 forest stands. Specific stands are arranged according to origin (plantations, natural stands,…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rusch, Keith
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ritchie, Hare
Earlier studies in Alaska and northwest Canada have shown inconsistent evidence for the expected northward extension of the Arctic tree line during the Hypsithermal Interval. Only megafossil evidence has supported this suggestion; the palynological findings have been…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neiland
Major vegetational, environmental, and peat accumulation patterns were studied in the forest-bog complex of southeast Alaska. Attention was directed to three levels of vegetational pattern: (1) the community type level, with forest, bog, and intermediate types being recognized…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cringan
In this paper I wish to review certain facets of the role of fire in the ecology of forest game, then go on to speculate about how forest fire protection may influence populations of forest wildlife. Before considering the effects of fire on game, it is necessary to remember…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Uggla
Description not entered.
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sykes, Tallmon, Mills
Research data and literature are sparse on fire in the taiga and subartic zones, especially regarding effects of fire on soil and water relations and on associated resource management considerations. In the scattered existing work, there is disagreement regarding effects of fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Slaughter, Sylvester, Wein, McVee, Klein
In preparing for this symposium, discussion inevitably turned to the many facets of wildfire in the subarctic which should be considered - material, philosophical, economic. Is fire detrimental to the environment? 'Are the practices which you employ in controlling wildfires (…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gives the texts of 23 papers: Principles of fire ecology and fire management in relation to the Alaskan environment (E. V. Komarek; 37 ref.]; Erosion, soil properties, and revegetation following a severe burn in the Colorado Rockies (W. D. Striffler and E. W. Mogren; 41 ref.);…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scotter
Of various factors which might limit barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) populations, destruction of range by fire is one. Fire, caused by lightning or man, generally affects only the caribou's winter range in the taiga or northern regions of the boreal…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Richardson
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES