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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kayll
Through a review of literature, the essential role of fire in the boreal forest as a natural regulatory agent of composition and succession is discussed in terms of plants, soils, and animals. In natural, long-term cycles, the incidence of lightning-started fires on a particular…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cushwa
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jarvis, Tucker
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cramer
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ward
From the text ... 'The Delta Marsh lies in south-central Manitoba, 75 miles north of the U.S. border. It is within the eastern edge of the Aspen Parkland, between the Great Plains of central North America and the coniferous forests of the Pre-cambrian Shield.The Delta Marsh…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kimmins
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chrosciewicz
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
A study was made of the fuel complex in 70-year old lodgepole pine stands in west-central Alberta to facilitate measurement and prediction of weight-and-size distribution of fuel components. Results showed that the weight of the entire fuel complex increased with increasing…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson
From the text ... 'The results of this study show that under certain conditions direct seeding can be a satisfactory method of establishing black spruce following prescribed burning of a balsam fir cutover. The most important limiting factor is the depth of the organic mantle.…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lafferty
From the text ... 'Objectives of the study 1) To compare pre— and postburn plant communities. 2) To determine vegetal succession patterns after fires of different intensities. 3) To relate successional patterns to natural and artificial regeneration after fires of different…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner
This note outlines the objectives and problems of prescribed burning as a tool of forest management. The importance of a number of weather factors is discussed and suggestions are presented for provision of effective weather guidance to forest officers concerned with this…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, Walker
From the text... 'It has long been recognized in forestry that minor vegetation leafing out on the forest floor in the early spring retards the advance of surface fires. This experiment was designed to provide some general understanding of this effect. The work was done in the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Endean
The development of deep organic layers in the overmature spruce stands of the east slope Foothills Section is viewed as site degradation and a serious impediment to the establishment of regeneration following clear-cutting. Low soil temperature beneath this organic layer is…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones, Johnston
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Breuer
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall
The combustion products (smoke) from forest wildfires or prescribed burns are often considered on a par with any other emission that might affect air quality. But enough is known about smoke from woody fuels to indicate that its importance is limited almost entirely to…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Anderson, Anderson
Small plot and aerial spray trials have shown that nonsprouting greenleaf manzanita in the Cascade Range can be killed by a single aerial application of 3 pounds of 2, 4-D per acre. Conifers planted amid the dead shrubs should be caged in hardware cloth cylinders for protection…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lait, Taylor
Describes the application, in the boreal forest, of Australian methods of counter-firing by incendiary capsules dropped from helicopters [cf. FA 32, 945]. A prototype machine was developed for the priming and release of the capsules, since these operations are slow and awkward…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Marks, Taylor
From the text... 'In an experimental plot established by the Nature Conservancy in 1957 to follow long-term effects of sheep grazing and rotational burning on Calluneto-Eriophoretum, a study of the response of R. chamaemorus to these treatments was initiated in 1969 (Taylor…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS