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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Quirk, Sykes
In a south-facing subbasin of Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, several mature white spruce stringers, apparent relics of extensive stands that have escaped fires, were studied. Tree-ring investigations show that the mature spruce stringers have remained…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Prasil
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Noste
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Miller
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Lotspeich, Mueller
Findings from a study of fire effects on the aquatic environment lead to the conclusion that the fire had fewer deleterious effects than did activities from fighting the fire -- improper siting of 'cat' lines as an example. These findings were important in decisions by land…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Komarek
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Komarek
From the text: This symposium on 'Fire in the Northern Environment' has been an exciting exchange of ideas. Your chairman has asked that I present a 'summation' and some 'concluding remarks.' The following summation indicates clearly the need for more research of the proper kind…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Komarek
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hoffman
Most of the existing Alaskan State and National Parks were established to provide for human enjoyment of the natural features and to preserve the area in its natural condition. The natural condition is identified as that occurring before the effects of white man's influence…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Heinselman
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002(https://www.frames.gov/rcs/18000/18093.html)]The primeval conifer forests of North America, with their associated deciduous components, were largely fire-dependent ecosystems. Fire was a key environmental factor in controlling…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Heginbottom
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Klein
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Describes the land, its climate, and the forests, most of which are in public ownership. In the coastal forests, of which 4 million acres are classed as commercial, Western Hemlock predominates, and in the interior forests (ca. 125 million acres, most of which is ravaged by fire…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Murray, Rowe, Shaw, Read
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hard
Laboratory feeding tests indicate that hemlock sawfly populations are partially regulated by food quality. Semi-starvation of late-instar larvae, due to feeding on current year's foliage rather than on a normal diet of previous year's foliage, caused a 65% reduction in survival…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hanson, Scott, Skoog, Rausch, Miller
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Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Barney
This paper presents selected interior Alaska forest and range wildfire statistics for the period 1966-69. Comparisons are made with the decade 1956-65 and the 30-year period 1940-1969, which are essentially the total recorded statistical history on wildfires available for…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Geist
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hakala, Seemel, Richey, Kurtz
During summer 1969, fires burned 86,000 acres of the Kenai National Moose Range, south-central Alaska; two fires accounted for 99 percent of the burned area. Suppression efforts involved nearly 5,000 men; 135 miles of catline were constructed, and 822,000 gallons of retardant…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Flieger
[from the text] The long-time role of fire in the forests of eastern Canada is masked, I believe, by the history of Canadian forest management in the exploitive years since 1920. There is now more forest land occupied by Industry -- mainly the Pulp and Paper Industry -- than…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Douglas
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Doerr, Keith, Rusch
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

DeLeonardis
The taiga forest of interior Alaska lies within a broad zone of discontinuous permafrost. Although the gross effects of wildfire on vegetation and wildlife are fairly well known and understood, there is still a lack of knowledge on the effects of fire on interior soils and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Comiskey
In 1967, the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska began producing isoline maps of buildup index by hand on a daily basis. These maps proved to be operationally valuable. In 1969, it was proposed that the isoline maps and other fire-danger ratings be produced by machine. By the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Bolstad
Severe erosion has resulted in the past from bulldozer-constructed firelines in permafrost terrain. In an attempt to reduce erosion and gullying, several water-barring techniques and seeding treatments were tested on permafrost and nonpermafrost catlines. Standard water bars and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS