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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Chabreck
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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright
[no description entered]
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeBano, Mann, Hamilton
[no description entered]
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
One 20-acre spruce-fir slash block was burned at moderate fire hazard. Weather, fuel-sampling, ignition pattern and fire effects are reported. The burn effectively reduced the slash-fuel-loading to a level where the spread of wildfire through the residual fires is unlikely and…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
From the Discussion ... 'This paper has dealt with the lightning effects and influences that cause primary concern in protection of the forest complex -- forest fire, mortality, injury, and damage from insects and diseases. Although it was written within the framework of…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wellner
From the Summary...'Historically, fires have repeatedly burned nearly every square foot of northern Rocky Mountain forests. Fire damage was especially severe during the 75 years following 1860, and much of this was due to promiscuous burning by whites. Prior to 1940, fire was…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Savage, Martin, Letey
Eight species of fungi isolated from a water repellent soil were incubated for varying periods of time in silica sand. In their latter stages of growth. two of the fungi, Aspergillus Sidowi and Penicillium nigricans, caused limited water repellency in the sand. All the fungal…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Craig, Chu
Fungal deterioration of second-growth Douglas-fir logs, felled each month from August 1961 to May 1962, was studied 2, 4, and 6 years after felling. Decay increased 10% of log volumes after 2 years to 47% after 6 years. The rate of decay, particularly for the brown cubical type…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Khan, Laude
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil, Grigel
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Werner
Sitka spruce produces twice as many needles per linear inch of twig as western hemlock. Defoliation by the black-headed budworm is more severe on hemlock than spruce because of differences in the phenological development of the hosts and in the feeding behavior of first- and…
Year: 1969
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
Stephens, Gass, Billings
Data from a series of plots in well stocked, even-aged Picea sitchensis/Tsuga heterophylla stands 30-170 years old (that had developed after logging (a), windblow (b) or fire (c) on various freely drained soils) were used to determine a site index based on total height and age…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Odum
The principles of ecological succession bear importantly on the relationships between man and nature. The framework of successional theory needs to be examined as a basis for resolving man's present eviromental crisis. Most ideas pertaining to the development of ecological…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oberle
Discusses (with particular reference to conditions in Alaska) the value of occasional small fires in burning undergrowth and litter to prevent the accumulation of inflammable material and the risk of major damage, the erosion likely to be caused by using bulldozers to make fire…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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
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
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
Komarek
From the Summary: 'I have discussed the reaction and behavior of animals to fire, smoke and the resulting burnt ground along four general lines: (1) Avoidance response to fire and smoke; (2) Animals attracted to fire and smoke; (3) Animals relationships to blackened areas caused…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Milke
Notes (Do Not Cite): Moose preferred S. alaxensis, S. arbusculoides, S. pulchra, and S. interior. Least selected species were: glauca, Barclayi, and hastata. Preference independent of relative abundance. S. alaxensis and S. pulchra most widespread in Interior. SAL has highest…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Gregory
This paper reviews literature concerning natural regeneration of white spruce in the southern boreal forest and incorporates what is known about this subject for the boreal forests of interior Alaska. A mineral soil seedbed; reduction of competing vegetation; shade, especially…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trigg, Noste
The analysis of data from 12 stations showed that highly significant differences in both average spread index and build-up index tables exist between stations.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skuncke
Description not entered.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Noste
Description not entered.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES