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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hilgert
Baseline data from 1979 are presented on precipitation, streamflow, occurrence of permafrost, and physical and chemical water quality in a subarctic, tiaga watershed. First- to third-order streams drain catchments embracing permafrost-underlain and permafrost-free landscapes in…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanson
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall, Brown, Johnson
During the summer of 1977 widespread fires occurred in northwest Alaska. Through the use of Landsat imagery and ground studies, one such fire, at Kokolik River, was examined. The Kokolik fire was first reported on 26 July, and by the time it was extinguished had consumed 44 km2…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis, Shideler, LeResche
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney, Noste, Wilson
Rates of spread of wildfires were measured for different directions in various fuel types and various weather conditions in the fire seasons of 1969, 1970 and 1971. The rate of spread curves were compared with those predicted by the National Fire-Danger Rating System. The…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McBride
About 2.3 million acres were burned by wildfires in Alaska in 1977, an exceptionally bad year when the reversal of normal patterns of rainfall caused an unusually dry August. Major fires are described and the ways in which they were tackled are outlined. Resource Impact Advisory…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manski
This study was undertaken to provide baseline conditions on the incidence of beetle killed spruce in Brooks Camp, the major developed area in Katmai, and to identify potential human activities that might be enhancing beetle population growth.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kryuchkov
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Johnston, Van Cleve
Mineral exploration, mining, pipeline construction, recreation, and other activities are accelerating on alpine and arctic ecosystems in North America. These ecosystems are threatened with severe disruption; in some areas, esthetic, watershed, and wildlife habitat values have…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ritchie
Post-glacial Vegetation of Canada brings together all the available information about the complex history of vegetational and environmental change in Canada since the last Ice Age. As the lands began to emerge from under the ice, they provided a large, varied setting for the re-…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vernam
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sylvester
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bailey
Moose populations on the Kenai National Moose Range have fluctuated following major wildfires since at least the mid-1800's. After a 1,255 km{+2} wildfire in 1947, the moose population increased at least 13 percent per year to 1959, fluctuated around a peak of 3,000 moose…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville
From introduction: 'The importance of documented case studies or histories of wildfires (Alexander 1982) has been repeatedly emphasized by both fire managers and fire researchers (e.g., Schaefer 1961; Luke and McArthur 1978). For example, at the 4th Conference on Fire and Forest…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shcherbakov
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heinselman
In the primeval wilderness - where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man - periodic forest, grassland, and tundra fires are part of the natural environment - as natural and vital as rain, snow, or wind In Minnesota, for example - fire has clearly been…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The book contains 16 chapters that relate to one another in six main areas as follows: Area one - the setting - contains an introductory chapter on the differences between allocation and management, the need for wilderness, and the philosophical and pragmatic bases for its…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Heavy grazing by extremely high densities of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) on St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea resulted in degradation of the lichen stands. Grasses, sedges, and other vascular plants initially increased in response to the removal of lichens under heavy…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
Results are reported from observations on the characteristics and population dynamics of the principal climax species, Picea glauca, made in summer 1985 near Chitina. Data are presented on vegetation types (transect profiles), density of woodland (point-centred quarter technique…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hard
Two stands of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss), one on a south aspect and one on a north aspect on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, were sampled intensively to determine site and host variables associated with high attack densities by spruce beetle, Dendroctonus…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall, Brown, Johnson
Description not entered.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fox
This paper shows that there is a reasonable coincidence between the Canada lynx cycle and the occurrence of forest and brush fires. Fires set in motion plant succession, potentially leading to an increase in snowshoe hares (Grange, 1965). Snowfall is also correlated with the…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cwynar
Laminated sediment (presumed varved) from Greenleaf Lake was examined for evidence of forest fires. A 500-year section dating approximately 770-1270 A.D. was analysed for influx of pollen, charcoal, aluminum, and vanadium using decadal samples. Intervals showing concurrent peaks…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen
Laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate how both mineral soil and moisture content affect the smoldering combustion in forest duff. Peat was used to represent the fermentation and humus horizons (Oe and Oa soil horizons) of a coniferous forest floor nominally called…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES