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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Roos, Graham, Hektor, Rakos
ANNOTATION: This paper contributes to the identification and analysis of barriers and drivers behind bioenergy market growth. It presents a framework for the analysis of both existing and projected bioenergy market potential, using economic concepts and models from transaction…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Hardy, Ottmar, Snell, Acheson, Peterson, Seamon, Lahm, Wade
This strategic plan is a technical discussion of the implementation and development of models and data systems used to manage the air quality impacts of wildland and prescribed fires. Strategies and priorities in the plan were generated by the Express Team (chartered by the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Ottmar, Hallett
Fire managers and safety officers concerned with smoke exposure among fire crews can use electronic carbon monoxide (CO) monitors to track and prevent overexposure to smoke. Commonly referred to as dosimeters, these lightweight instruments measure the concentration of CO in the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Crookston, Stage
Estimates of percent canopy cover generated by the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) are corrected for crown overlap using an equation presented in this paper. A comparison of the new cover estimate to some others is provided. The cover estimate is one of several describing…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston
A new feature has been added to the Forest Vegetation Simulator directly providing data for the Stand Visualization System. This feature is the SVS keyword. The new feature is faster, does a better job of maintaining the tree location information, and provides more information…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The FORBS Program is based on the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS). It utilizes existing Personal Computer Historical Analysis (PCHA), Interagency Initial Attack Assessment (IIAA), and Arc View processes. FORBS is tied to the Suppression Analysis developed in…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
Chapter 13 in the book titled, Issues in Landscape Ecology.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seli
In early July of 1997, I was assigned to the Inowak Fire in southwest Alaska as a Fire Behavior Analyst (FBAN). The fire started late in June in a Limited Suppression Zone southwest of McGrath, but on July 4 and 5 it made major runs toward three native villages on the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Basham
This study has defined actual reductions in recoverable merchantable volumes per acre in fire-killed pine stands. It has demonstrated that, when more than two years have elapsed, reductions in yield of considerable magnitude due to deterioration as a direct or indirect result of…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fact sheet on the final regional haze regulations for protection of visibility in national parks and wilderness areas.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Galizia, Kinney
Few studies have examined the respiratory effects of multiyear ozone exposures in human populations. We examined associations between current respiratory health status and long-term ozone exposure histories in 520 Yale College (New Haven, CT) students who never smoked.…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Applequist
The determination of total tree age is usually based on ring counts of increment cores which ideally should pass through tree center. For several reasons the borer does not always "hit the pith," and it becomes necessary to estimate how many rings were missed. The pith locator…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Russell, Van Lear, Guynn
Prescribed burning is used to achieve a variety of silvicultural objectives, including controlling heavy fuel accumulation, exposing mineral soil, releasing available nutrients for seedbed preparation, and controlling certain insects, diseases, and competing vegetation (Hunter…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Axelrod
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Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cockerham
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nuss
This assessment estimated the total number of forestland acres on the Kenai Peninsula in high, medium and low impact status with respect to spruce beetle activity. Authors estimated the annual mortality rate to be 3%.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
From 'Assessing Crown Fire Hazard': 'Scott and Reinhardt (in preparation) developed two quantitative indices of crown fire hazard--the Torching Index and the Crowning Index --that managers can use to assess the potential for crowing by wildfires. The indices are derived from…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schulze, Lloyd, Kelliher, Wirth, Rebmann, Luhker, Mund, Knohl, Milyskova, Schulze, Ziegler, Varlagin, Sogachev, Valentini, Dore, Grigoriev, Kolle, Panfyorov, Tchebakova, Vygodskaya
Published and original data were analysed to investigate carbon pools and fluxes in Siberian forests totalling 600 million ha, and European forests totalling 300 million ha. Productivity parameters assessed were Net Primary Productivity (NPP=whole plant growth), Net Ecosystem…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Price, Halliwell, Apps, Peng
Aim: To investigate effects of within-season and interannual climate variability on the behaviour of boreal forest ecosystems as simulated by the FORSKA2 patch model. Location: Eleven climate station locations distributed along a transect across the boreal zone of central Canada…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ponizovsky, Chudinova, Pachepsky
Time domain reflectometry (TDR) is widely used to measure the soil water contents. The effect of soil composition on TDR calibration has to be quantified to diminish the need in re-calibration of TDR. Objectives of the study were: (a) to evaluate the ability of published models…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pastor, Cohen, Moen
Boreal forests are composed of a few plant species with contrasting traits with respect to ecosystem functioning and spatial patterning. Early successional deciduous species, such as birch (Betula spp.) and aspen (Populus spp.), disperse seeds widely, do not tolerate low light…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary, Klopatek, DeBano, Ffolliott
The overall effects of fire on ecosystems are complex, ranging from the reduction or elimination of aboveground biomass to impacts on belowground physical, chemical and microbial mediated processes. Since a key component of overall ecosystem sustainability occurs belowground,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nalder, Wein, Alexander, de Groot
The quantity of dead and downed woody fuels in forests is commonly estimated using the line intersect method of sampling. Determination of the mass of wood per unit area for each size class requires values for the mean specific gravity, piece tilt angle and piece diameter. We…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Niemela
Disturbances and the consequent habitat heterogeneity are natural features of the boreal forest. Natural disturbances occurring at the level of populations, communities and ecosystems (meters to kilometers and years to hundreds of years), that is, at the 'meso-scale' may provide…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cringan
In this paper I wish to review certain facets of the role of fire in the ecology of forest game, then go on to speculate about how forest fire protection may influence populations of forest wildlife. Before considering the effects of fire on game, it is necessary to remember…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES