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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bliss
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney, Berglund
Records of 21 stations were analyzed for the occurrence, persistence, and related visibility resulting from summertime wildfire smoke and haze in interior Alaska. Maximum probability of smoke occurrence for any station and month was 8.7 percent in July for Bettles. Seasonal…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
Fine-fuel moisture content tables, using dry bulb and dewpoint temperatures as entry data, have been developed for use with the National Fire-Danger Rating System in Alaska. Comparisons have been made which illustrate differences resulting from danger-rating calculations based…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The effects of forest fires on the physical and chemical properties of soils in northwestern Ontario
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002] During the summer of 1968, an extensive survey was made of burnt and unburnt soils in northern Ontario. It was found that fires, although consuming part of the surface organic layers, only rarely exposed the mineral soil to any extent…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Rickard, Vietor
The influence of surface cover on thaw penetration in alpine and arctic soils of Alaska was determined. Several manipulated treatments were employed: removal of all vegetation, mulching, shearing and fire. Thaw and subsidence more than doubled on the bare and sheared plots and…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Rickard
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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adams
This paper by Bill Adams, BLM Alaska State Office, Division of Fire Control, was developed with a research needs analysis by the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska. It expresses of program management, including BLM's fire program and provides a view of future fire management,…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McLean
There is a close relationship between root system characteristics and the relative fire resistance of Douglas fir forest zone species in southern interior British Columbia. Susceptible species are usually those that have fibrous root systems or produce stolons or rhizomes which…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
LeResche, Bishop, Coady
Moose (Alces alces) have been present in Alaska since mid- to late-pleistocene times. They probably survived in relatively small, disjunct groups wherever suitable habitat could be found throughout this period, when a tundra-steppe community dominated much of the Alaska refugium…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kozlowski, Ahlgren
This interdisciplinary treatment examines, in depth, both the beneficial and harmful effects of fire on temperate-zone and tropial ecosystems. Separate chapters deal with effects of fire on herbaceous and woody plants, soils, soil organisms, birds, and mammals. One treats the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
Description not entered.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
[From the text] Fire has been an integral part of America's wildlands for millions of years. The only environments not experiencing fire as a significant ecological factor were those that remained very cold, very wet, or very dry, and even in these regions, extreme variation in…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
West
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eastman
Habitat use by moose was studied in the sub-boreal spruce zone of British Columbia from 1971-1973 for dry, modal and wet environments. Comparisons between burns, cutovers and undisturbed forests were based on post-winter pellet group counts and monthly checks of tagged twig…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calef
The potential effects of the proposed gas pipeline project on the Porcupine caribou herd have been assessed using published and unpublished literature, and 3 years of field data collected by consultants to the Environment Protection Board and Canadian Arctic Gas Study Ltd.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jayaweera, Ahlnas
The Very High Resolution Radiometer of NOAA-2 and -3 can successfully locate and identify thunderstorms. Since lightning fires account for more than 90 percent of the acreage burned by forest fires in Alaska, this imagery promises to be a useful tool for forest fire control.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hard
Periodic outbreaks of black-headed budworms have been reported in southeast Alaska and on Prince William Sound since 1917. The 1950's outbreak caused severe defoliation of mature hemlock and almost one-third of net volume was lost in some stands. The defoliation trend-ratio of…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haag, Bliss
The effects of three types of surface disturbance (winter road, fire, and oil spill) on the radiant energy budget of upland low shrub-heath tundra were investigated. All disturbances to vegetation or the soil surface resulted in an albedo reduction, which led to a direct…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gill
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dyer
In the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, spruce logs infested by Dendroctonus obesus (Mannerheim) were placed beside thermographs at three sites. Throughout the summer, the mean and minimum air temperatures were higher on a mountain slope than in two valley bottoms at…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bulmer
(1) The main features of the ten-year cycle are the regularity of the period and the irregularity of the amplitude of the oscillations; these features are obvious in data on the lynx cycle, and in the correlogram and periodogram calculated from the data. (2) A statistical model…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bishop, Rausch
Moose population status, trends in productivity, survival and abundance monitored by aerial surveys and other means in four Alaskan study areas during 1950-1972 are reviewed. Moose numbers were high or increasing from 1950 to 1960 in all areas studied due to extensive and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud
Information on the winter feeding behavior of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in Newfoundland and the relative abundance of food available to them in winter are presented. Sight and smell were used to locate food beneath the snow. Tall shrubs showing above the snow begin to increase…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud
The numbers of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in North America generally declined in the 1800s and early 1900s. Four hypotheses are discussed relative to this decline: (I) numbers decreased because of a shortage of lichen supplies caused by the destruction of lichen pastures by…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES