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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Yamaguchi
A hoist–puller (come-along) or a scissor jack can be used to extract stuck increment borers from trees. An electric drill is also helpful for removing jammed wood from the inside of borers.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adkisson
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beck
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the Conclusion ... 'The natural history of lightning wherever studied has shown a preponderance of evidence that:(1) Lightning is an inherent component of the earth's atmosphere and is ecologically fully as important as such better known factors as temperature, rainfall,…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Requa
From the text ... 'The Yukon Forest Service, a section of the Resources Division, Northern Administration Branch, Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources is responsible for forest fire protection and forest management in the Territory. This includes fire prevention…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Spencer, Hakala
From the 'Summary of Fire and Moose Relationships ... 1. Vegetation immediately following the 1947 Burn was largely determined by the previous stand. Revegetation was through both vegetative and seeding reproduction. Types following the fire were numerous and variable in…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruhn
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McIlroy
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arnold, Jameson, Reid
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gauvin
Gives observations to date on 5 plots. Populus tremuloides and Betula papyrifera predominate in many areas; regeneration of Abies Balsamea and Picea Mariana is patchy.
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Darling
From the text...'In this Alaskan reconnaissance, I believe we were the first workers to point out that the caribou was a creature of climax vegetation-the lichen tundra-and the moose one of mid-successional vegetation. We became aware of the liberation of the shrub growth of…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner, Romme, Gardner
The 'bloom' of annual and perennial plants following fire in the chaparral is well documented, but there is controversy over what factors cause this burst of new growth. I examined the relative importance of fire, competition, and herbivory in seedling germination and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schwartz, Hermann
We present evidence that fire suppression may have contributed to the fungal decline of torreya (Torreya taxifolia). During the 1950's torreya suffered a catastrophic die-back. The torreya die-back was probably caused by needle pathogens induced through environmental stress.…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morber, Miyanishi
Canopy closure by trees such as Prunus serotina and p. virginiana is presently threatening the survival of the herbaceous component of an oak savanna in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario. Prescribed burning has recently been instituted in an attempt to open up the canopy to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keeley
Mortality patterns are diverse for chaparral shrubs under periods > 100 years without fire. Ceanothus often suffer the highest mortality under extended fire-free conditions and this is best interpreted as density dependent thinning rather than senescence. Intraspecific…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
De Grandpre, Gagnon
The changes observed in the composition and abundance of shrubs, herbs and mosses were investigated following fire in the southern boreal forest of the Abitibi region, Quebec. Ten plots of 100m2 were sampled at each of eight sites varying in age from 26 to 230 years after fire (…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram, Clements, Elliott, George
The first part of this report presents the results of further tests of fires in wood cribs. In one series of tests cribs of the same height and structure but with different areas, or horizontal cross-sections, were burned in still air to determine the effect of size of burning…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brayshaw
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
[no description entered]
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viegas, Neto
Modelling of the wind effect on the rate of spread of a flame in a forest fire usually employs a wind velocity measured at mid-flame height. An alternative formulation is proposed in this paper, based on the wall shear-stress produced by the wind on the fuelbed in the absence of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roads, Ueyoshi, Chen, Alpert, Fujioka
The forecast skill of the National Meteorological Center's medium range forecast (MRF) numerical forecasts of fire weather variables is assessed for the period June 1, 1988 to May 31, 1990. Near-surface virtual temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and a derived fire…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS