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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Keddy
Assembly rules provide one possible unifying framework for community ecology. Given a species pool, and measured traits for each species, the objective is to specify which traits (and therefore which subset of species) will occur in a particular environment. Because the problem…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartford, Frandsen
Fire effects on aplant community, soil, and air are not apparent when judged only by surface fire intensity. The fire severity or fire impact can be described by the temperatures reached within the forest floor and the duration of heating experienced in the vegetation, forest…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Methven, Van Wagner, Stocks
As the initial step in a study of forest fire cycles in the boreal forest of northwestern Ontario, four burned areas of different ages were briefly examined. This Report describes the present condition of the areas visited in terms of both forest cover and vegetation. Tentative…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Edwards
In May 1990, a test of two levels of site preparation were implemented on a lower Piedmont site. The two silvicultural treatments were: 1 ) a spotgun application of the herbicide Velpar L and 2) brown and burn procedure. Seven 100 ft. x 2 ft. transects were located within each…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Taylor
Present uses of prescribed fire in Canada are reviewed. Fire has been a natural component of many forested North American landscapes for millennia, making it an obvious choice as an effective forest management tool. It can be used in harmony with known fire adaptations of…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beran
Stability of the atmosphere at different levels is one important factor affecting the behavior of forest fires, but the measurement of stability and other atmospheric phenomena is complex and difficult. The acoustic echo sounder shows promise for measuring these parameters and…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parmeter, Uhrenholdt
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Hawksworth
Wildfires play a multiple role in the distribution of dwarf mistletoes - they may either inhibit or encourage these parasites depending primarily on the size and intensity of the burn. Many reports suggest that fire exclusion policies of the past half century have resulted in…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Martin
The concept of a passive flame height sensor involves thin strings permeated with fire retardant or solder which record heights of flame contact. Both types of sensors were calibrated during 12 experimental test fires with respect to flame heights measured on video tape. Three…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Heilman
A two-dimensional nonhydrostatic atmospheric model was used to simulate the circulation patterns (wind and vorticity) and turbulence energy fields associated with lines of extreme surface heating on simple two-dimensional hills. Heating-line locations and ambient crossflow…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoyt, Putman
This report concludes that a significant amount of timber (25,408 MBF) has been impacted by spruce bark beetles in the Lower Yukon District and that bark beetle population levels have subsided from epidemic levels of the late 1980's to more endemic levels. Bark beetle attacks…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Minore
Rhizome occurrence and root structure of Vaccinium membranaceum were investigated by hydraulic excavation. Numerous, robust rhizomes were present. Taproots were not observed. V. membranaceum rhizomes sprouted vigorously after a light surface fire killed the shoots. They may be…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catchpole, Alexander, Gill
Equations are presented for determining the proportion of the total perimeter and area burned for a simple elliptically shaped fire for any specified range of Byram's fireline intensities. The same principles apply to any characteristic that is dependent on fireline intensity.…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zoltai
Examination of 30 stands in sub-arctic woodlands showed that most were even-aged, having been established after fires. Most fires killed all trees in the stand, but in some instances some trees survived, indicating light fires. The rare occurrence of uneven-aged stands shows…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Viereck
Alaskan Salicaceae can be subdivided into two groups on the basis of timing of seed dispersal. The early-seeding species include members of the genus Populus and the majority of Salix species. Late-seeding species include seven members of the genus Salix. On tests of five…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Noonan
During a 4-year period the biomass and mass of selected chemical elements were measured in litter fall from young, intermediate, and mature age classes of quaking aspen and paper birch in interior Alaska. Average annual deposition of biomass and mass of Mg, Fe, and Mn were…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swanson, Barker
Populations of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) have fluctuated greatly since their introduction to Alaska in 1891. In the 1930s, reported numbers exceeded 600,000. Presently, 38,000 reindeer graze 6.2 million ha of rangeland and woodland in Western Alaska (from 66 degrees 54'N to…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
Trend of the Nelchina caribou range was determined from vegetation examinations of 36 ten and fifteen year old exclosures. Condition of climax lichen stands, primarily Cladonia alpestris, began to degenerate with two to three years of use and has declined substantially in the…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kane, Luthin, Taylor
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Inglis
Five 7.3m x 7.3m exclosures were constructed on winter range following grazing. All feeding craters within the sites were permanently marked. The exclosures were later examined, disassembled and the crater outlines super-imposed on vegetation maps. The procedure was repeated on…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heimer
The classic concept of nutritional carrying capacity tends to complicate management of Dall sheep (Ovis dalli dalli) populations because they often exist at relatively constant populations sizes over extended periods. The fundamental axiom taught in the wildlife management…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Youngblood, Max
The seasonal and spatial patterns of dispersal of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) seed were studied from 1986 to 1989 in floodplain stands along the Tanana River near Fairbanks, Alaska. Analysis of the 1987 crop showed that production of filled seed was strongly…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES