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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Becker, Phillips, Keller
Pyrolysis of white pine wood has been studied in thin samples (1.6 mm thick slabs) exposed in an oven at 199-365 degrees C and in thick samples (8-50 mm diam branch segments) exposed in a wind tunnel at 365-525 degrees C and 3-18 m/s wind speed. In the limit case of sufficiently…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Becker, Phillips
In a previous study, single sticks of dry white pine 8-50 mm diam were exposed in a high-termperature wind tunnel providing effective wind speeds of 3-18 m/s. The working section wall temperature and gas temperature were equal, 357-857 degrees C. Several regimes of behavior were…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
Changes in the small mammal community in recently logged upland Black Spruce (Picea mariana) and mixedwood stands near Manitouwadge, Ontario, were documented for two to three years after a light fire in early summer and after a severe fire in late summer. Populations on the two…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Becker, Phillips
In the previous study, single sticks of dry white pine 8-50 mm diam. were exposed in a high-temperature and the gas temperature were equal, 357-857 C. Several regimes of behavior were perceived, among them a regime typically occurring at tempertaures above 500 C in which fully…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
This paper presents a system for locating lightning strikes and predicting the number of fire ignitions on forests and rangelands. This system uses variables representing weather and fuels and real-time lightning locations as inputs. Outputs from the system consist of printouts…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
To sum up, policy, strategy, personnel and equipment employed to suppress forest and range fires has changed dramatically over the past 70-year history of the Forest Service. Most of this change has come during the past 25 years, with the establishment of research laboratories…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
In this paper a mathematical description of flow into the forest edge is proposed and used as a basis for a detailed reexamination of experimental results from the scale model studies of Kawatania and Sadeh (1971). It is the intention here to use the experimental data to guide…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Four 0.8-ha plots south of Tucson, Ariz., were burned November 12, 1975, in a pasture where cattle had not grazed for 12 months. The fire top-killed most small mesquites, killed almost all of the burroweed and much of the cactus, except in unburned patches. Within 5 years…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
The burnout of large-sized woody fuels, 1 to 6 inches thick, is being measured at the USDA Forest Service Northern Forest Fire Laboratory in Missoula, Mont. Physical properties of the fuel bed are varied to determine threshold for interactive burning, periods of flaming and…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
González-Cabán
Costs of mopping up wildfires have been difficult to estimate because data are not recorded in a way conducive to separate total fire cost into components such as personnel and equipment or mobilization and demobilization of crews. To estimate costs, 25 National Forests in three…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doerksen
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Holsten, Vandre
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
The structure and function of taiga ecosystems over a 3,600,000 ha area of northeastern interior Alaska was shown to be consistent with a hypothesis relating vegetative structure and dynamics to site nutrient status and soil temperature. Ordination of modal community…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Van Cleve
A total of 58 trees was sampled from eight stands across a large area of interior Alaska. Regression equations were developed to estimate standing aboveground biomass for 22 white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stands. Aboveground standing biomass of white spruce in mature…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yakovlev
In 1971-80, extensive and detailed investigations were made in the Kostroma region of the USSR on various primary forest types, viz. spruce forests of the compositum, oxalidosum, myrtillosum and riparian types; pine forests of the vacciniosum, cladinosum, and sphagnosum types;…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Holsten
Pheromone baited traps and trap trees attracted an aggregate of 29 scolytid species associated with white spruce in three localities in Alaska. Species diversity was higher in Fairbanks than in the Brooks Range or the Kenai Peninsula. Scolytids were found inhabiting all bark-…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Holsten
White spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stands in the Resurrection Creek watershed in south-central Alaska were infested by spruce bettles, Dendroctonus rugipennis Kirby, between 1974 and 1975. Thirty permanent plots were established within the infested area in 1976 to…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Dyrness, Van Cleve, Foote
Vegetation, forest productivity, and soils of 23 forest stands in the taiga of interior Alaska are described. The stands are arranged on an environmental gradient from an aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) stand on a dry, steep south-facing bluff, to open black spruce (Picea…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Dyrness
The major portion of this special issue consists of a group of 22 related papers resulting from a multidisciplinary research project on the taiga of interior Alaska, mainly carried out at the University of Alaska and the Institure of Northern forestry (USDA Forest Service) at…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Dyrness, Viereck, Fox, Chapin, Oechel
A general account of the findings of a joint USDA Forest Service/University of Alaska research project studying taiga ecosystems, especially the black spruce type [see FA 42, 5305; 43, 3427]. Black spruce forests are the most nutrient poor and least productive forest type, with…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Dyrness
This study summarizes the effects of forest-floor disturbance on soil-solution chemistry. For comparative purposes chemical analyses are also presented of soil solution collected beneath undisturbed black spruce (Piceamariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) stands, stream water, and…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Dyrness
The objective of this introductory paper is to present a brief overview of the setting in which the structure and function of a black spruce ecosystem was considered in relation to other fire affected taiga ecosystems; the organizational framework within which the research was…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
In most of their arctic and subarctic ranges reindeer, caribou and muskoxen adopt generalist foraging strategies; they consume a wide variety of plants even though they feed selectively. This paper analyses some aspects of selective feeding behavior and its possible influence on…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES