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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Sandberg
A simplified model for predicting total biomass consumption and particulate emission yield for slash burning in western Washington and western Oregon is developed by combining results from earlier studies by the Forest Fire and Atmospheric Sciences Research team. The model…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moeur
The COVER extension to the Stand Prognosis Model predicts tree canopy closure, crown volume, crown profile area, and foliage biomass within vertical height classes, and the probability of occurrence, height, and cover of shrubs in forest stands. The model may be used to produce…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stockstad, Lory
A furnace capable of producing either spontaneous or pilot-ignition and measuring temperatures at which, these ignitions occur has been designed and constructed for use in ignition studies of fine forest fuels. One-inch-long sections of conifer needles, grass stems and leaves,…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McLean, Wikeem
Bluebunch wheatgrass (Agropyron spicatum Pursh) Scribn. & Smith) response to various clipping regimes which incorporated different times, frequencies, and intensities of defoliation was examined in southern British Columbia. The experiment was repeated for 3 consecutive…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro, Lawson
Field measurements of moisture distribution in organic layers under mature stands and in exposed slash areas, and the effect of additional precipitation are presented and discussed. Implications of the moisture distribution to control of prescribed fires and their relation to…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil, Chrosciewicz
Forest fires have played an important role in determining the type and composition of forest ecosystems in the temperate region of North America. The close association between fires and forest ecosystems has helped the resource manager to interpret the significance of fire in…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bacon, Dell
This publication entitled National Forest Landscape Management Volume 2, Chapter 6, Fire, is part of the National Forest Landscape Management series, issued in 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, and 1980 by the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. This chapter's purpose is to…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alden, Zasada
Lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta Dougl. is the most widely distributed conifer in North America. Cones of northern populations of the interior variety latifolia are highly serotinous and retain vigorous seed for more than 50 years. Average annual cone production is relatively…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Werner, Holsten
Direct solar radiation to the bark surface of white spruce, Picea glauca (Moench) Voss, is the primary environmental factor influencing the developmental rate of spruce beetles, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby), in Alaska. A phloem threshold temperature of 16.5 degree C is…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
During a prescribed-burning experiment in 80-year-old Pinus resinosa and P. strobus, temperatures below the duff surface and in the soil were measured with temperature-sensitive paints. The results were difficult to interpret, but average temperature gradients were calculated.…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skogland
(1) The population dynamics of eight reindeer herds in Norway, including the high arctic, were studied in relation to food abundance and population density. (2) Density-dependent effects were manifested through winter food…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shaw, Eglitis, Laurent, Hennon
Alaska-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) trees have been dying of an unknown cause in large numbers at several locations in southeastern Alaska for more than 75 yr. At least 9,700 ha of cedar forest have been affected. Diseased stands often have 50% or more of their total…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine, Dennis, Patterson
The location, cause, frequency, size, rotation times, and seasonal timing of tundra fires in the Noatak River watershed of northwestern Alaska were determined from Bureau of Land Management fire records for 1956-83 and satellite (LANDSAT) 1:1,000,000 scale, black and white, band…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payette, Gagnon
Reconstructions of climate in the Holocene rely heavily on palaeoclimatic indicators such as altitudinal and latitudinal treeline movements inferred from direct (macrofossil) or indirect (pollen) evidence of sites distant from modern treelines. It is suggested here that long-…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
Two exclosures esablished during the 1920's were reexamined in 1965. In the dwarf shrub-lichen type browse species suppressed recovery of lichens. Full recovery of lichens had not occurred within 33 years. In several disturbed quadrats in the Dryas field-field type, recovery…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
A herd of approximately 500 reindeer was herded over a non-utilized portion of a large Eriophorum-Carex-dwarf shrub meadow near Nome, Alaska during both moist and dry conditions. After one summer of use on approximately 17 sections by the reindeer, 68% of the lichens were…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
The shortest answer to the title question is that a fire's effect is independent of its mode of origin. So, rather than recreating the original fire regime per se, it might be more feasible to aim for the vegetation a natural fire regime would create. How to arrange the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
White
Several abstracts on fire ecology, plant response and management in Alaska by following authors:Knapp, G. Dixon, J.S.Foote, J. and Viereck, L.A.Alden, J. and Zasada, J.Viereck, L.A. and Foote, M. J.Sampson, G. R. Post, K.E. and Werner, R.A.Lehnhausen, W. and Murphy, E.Densmmore…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Malotte, Erskine
Alaska land managers and wildfire protection organizations have begun interagency fire planning for over 220 million fire-prone acres (=81 million ha). A 14-step process has been developed to guide planning teams. Four plans have been completed and nine are presently being…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rowe
Reviews the literature on some aspects of the fire ecology of the Spruces, chiefly Picea glauca, in the boreal forest area of the north-west, where fire is an integral part of the environment and Spruces are frequently early invaders of burnt sites.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
Description not entered.
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lyon, Pengelly
Dr. Behan has suggested that the minerals removed in timber harvest and otherwise lost might be replaced by direct fertilization which would also increase tree growth. There are some unanswered questions in this area that probably need clarification, It has been shown, for…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Provides information on fire management policy, programs, and issues in parks, wildernesses, and other natural areas. In more than 100 papers, poster papers, and workshop summaries, both researchers and managers explore basic wilderness management philosophies, explain current…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES