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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Holsten, Eggleston
Description not entered.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hilgert
Baseline data from 1979 are presented on precipitation, streamflow, occurrence of permafrost, and physical and chemical water quality in a subarctic, tiaga watershed. First- to third-order streams drain catchments embracing permafrost-underlain and permafrost-free landscapes in…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, Mask, Holsten
Forest insect and disease populations and related damage increased throughout Alaskan forests in 1993. All of Alaska experienced the driest summer in almost 75 years. Spruce bark beetle now is infesting in excess of 700,000 acres. Hardwood defoliator activity has decreased from…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon
Decline and mortality of yellow-cedar is the most spectacular forest problem in southeast Alaska. Yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis), sometimes called Alaska-cedar, is the principal victim in this decline. Other tree species are largely unaffected. Yellow-cedar has…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanson
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fastie, Mann
Fire history in a forested, 550 ha second-order basin (basin P6) of the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska, was reconstructed from 21 replicated fire scars on black spruce trees and age structures of fire post-fire stands of black spruce and paper…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Colla, Southwick
Burning has been a traditional component of land clearing operations to eliminate unwanted debris from fields. Burning under the proper conditions can be a cost efficient method of debris removal, and provides nutrient release into the soil. Burning, however, carries with it the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Lee
The Intelligent Fire Management Information System (IFMIS) is a fire management tool which integrates fire weather, forest inventory, and suppression resources to provide an overall picture of the current fire situation. Using the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating (CFFDRS)…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGee, Feller
The species composition and density of seed banks in the forest floors and mineral soils of several undisturbed (immature, midseral forests) and disturbed (transmission line rights-of-way) ecosystems in southwestern British Columbia were estimated using the seedling-emergence…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manski
This study was undertaken to provide baseline conditions on the incidence of beetle killed spruce in Brooks Camp, the major developed area in Katmai, and to identify potential human activities that might be enhancing beetle population growth.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lieffers, Macdonald, Hogg
Calamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) Beauv. is a widely distributed rhizomatous grass that can seriously inhibit growth of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) seedlings in the boreal forests of North America. We review the dynamics of this grass during four successional…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landhausser, Wein
A fire of unusually great severity (deep burning) burned across the forest-tundra ecotone near Inuvik, Northwest Territories from August 8 to 18, 1968. Burned-unburned paired study sites around the fire perimeter, which had been established in both tundra and forest-tundra in…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adams
This report presents impressions and opinions on the current large and rapidly increasing spruce beetle infestation in south-central Alaska.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Brubaker
Description not entered.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ritchie
Post-glacial Vegetation of Canada brings together all the available information about the complex history of vegetational and environmental change in Canada since the last Ice Age. As the lands began to emerge from under the ice, they provided a large, varied setting for the re-…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lange
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vernam
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville
From introduction: 'The importance of documented case studies or histories of wildfires (Alexander 1982) has been repeatedly emphasized by both fire managers and fire researchers (e.g., Schaefer 1961; Luke and McArthur 1978). For example, at the 4th Conference on Fire and Forest…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein, Yakushkin, Pospelova
Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) introduced to formerly occupied areas in northern Alaska (70 degrees N) in 1969 and 1970, and the Taimyr Peninsula (75 degrees N) in 1974 and 1975 increased in number (exceeding 20 %/year in the early years following their establishment), and have…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Heavy grazing by extremely high densities of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) on St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea resulted in degradation of the lichen stands. Grasses, sedges, and other vascular plants initially increased in response to the removal of lichens under heavy…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, French, Harrell, Christensen, Ustin, Barry
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) composite image data, produced from AVHRR data collected in 1990, were evaluated for locating and mapping the areal extent of wildfires in the boreal forests of Alaska during that year. A technique was developed to map forest fire…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
Results are reported from observations on the characteristics and population dynamics of the principal climax species, Picea glauca, made in summer 1985 near Chitina. Data are presented on vegetation types (transect profiles), density of woodland (point-centred quarter technique…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Wowchuk
In this paper we present evidence for a large-scale (synoptic-scale) meteorological mechanism controlling the fire frequency in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. This large-scale control may explain the similarity in average fire frequencies and timing of change in average…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES