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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
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Swanston
[no description entered]
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jarvis, Tucker
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cramer
[no description entered]
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
Chrosciewicz
[no description entered]
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
Prasil
The National Park Service has studied certain areas and intends to continually study other Parks to determine whether or not natural fires will be allowed to burn. It is understood by the Service where natural fires will cause a threat to other land agencies, State or Federal,…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strang
From the text ... 'At the request of the Provincial government, an ecological examination was carried out between 1966 and 1968, to determine whether afforestation would be practical. The soil and vegetation of the heathlands were examined in detail and compared with adjacent…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reifsnyder
From the text ... 'One area where great strides can be made is in the climatology of fire weather and its application to fire planning. Recent advances have been made in application of climatology to agriculture, and many of the same principles can be applied to forest fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cayford
From the Discussion ... 'It has been shown that a number of research foresters have investigated the use of prescribed burning as a technique for regenerating cut-over jack pine stands and, in general, results have been very promising. However, it has also been shown that…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murray, Northcutt, Countryman
[no description entered]
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Methven
The effect of crown damage on mortality of red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) and white pine (Pinus strobus L.) was examined using both controlled temperature laboratory experiments on pine seedlings and prescribed fires in mature pine stands. Laboratory experiments indicated that…
Year: 1971
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
Foggin, DeBano
This paper describes the nature of water repellency, factors causing repellency, and geographic implications of findings from recent studies.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson
Between 1961 and 1963 two balsam fir cutovers were burned under low fire hazard conditions. The treatment eliminated practically all balsam fir advance growth and reduced the quantity of slash and other debris. The reduction was considered sufficient to facilitate the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rappaport
'...Here we shall examine the flow of energy in an agricultural society that practices a mode of gardening known for millenniums, a mode likely to have been the first to enable pioneer farmers to exploit an almost unpopulated part of the world: the humid Tropics...'
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones, Johnston
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Breuer
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson, Dell
[no description entered]
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson, Dell
Today more than a billion acres of forest and rangeland in the United States are managed under some form of organized fire protection. On much of this wildland, there is a buildup of flammable fuels that under critical burning conditions can feed disastrous forest fires. The…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogl
...fire has been generally misrepresented. It is a neglected factor in many forests. Fire needs public understanding and acceptance. We should compare fire's beneficial effects to its well-known detrimental effects before we dismiss all fire as bad, and all wood smog as…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS