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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Haag
Description not entered.
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Franzmann, Schwartz, Johnson
Summary: During spring 1982 and 1983, mortality mode expandable radio collars were placed on 37 and 42 moose (Alces alces) calves, respectively. Three calves were abandoned by their cows within 24 hours of capture in 1982; 1 was abandoned in 1983; and 1 transmitter ceased…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bolstad
Description not entered.
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This publication is the fourth edition of tables for calculating the six standard components of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. The first three components are fuel moisture codes that follow daily changes in the moisture contents of three classes of forest fuel;…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Fischer
Computer programs that facilitate obtaining climatological summaries of information stored in the National Fire Weather Data Library are described. Computer programs for enhancing reliability of data-deficient weather records are also described. Instructions for executing the…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney, Berglund
A summary of climatic data during the 1968-71 growing seasons is presented for the subarctic Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest located near Fairbanks, Alaska. Data were obtained from three weather station sites at elevations of 1,650, 1,150, and 550 feet from May until September…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney, Comiskey
Existing records show that five wildfires burned more than 1,600 hectares of tundra on Alaska's Arctic Slope. Environmental conditions suitable for lightning, ignition, and burning occur more often than previously recognized at this northern latitude.
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Belon
A reconstituted, simulated color-infrared ERTS-1 image covering the western Seward Peninsula was prepared and it is used for identifying and mapping vegetation types by direct visual examination. The image, NASA ERTS E-1009-22095, was obtained approximately at 1110 hours, 165…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
Following a prescribed fire, structural effects were measured over a 4-year postfire period. Initial tree mortality was concentrated in small diameter and height classes of Abies concolor (Gord. And Glend) Lindl., Pinus lambertiana Dougl., and Pinus ponderosa Dougl. Most…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McBeath
Spruce bud rust (caused by Chrysomyxa woroninii ) attacked both the leaf (needle) buds and ovulate strobili of Picea glauca and P. mariana. The infected needle buds produced extremely stunted shoots with bright yellow-colored needles. Infected cones became most conspicuos when…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LeResche, Davis
Food intake of 3 tame moose (Alces alces) was observed on the Kenai Peninsula during summer on a normal range and during winter and spring on a normal and a depleted range. Plant species and bite sizes were recorded for 49 308 bites consumed. Food eaten varied between summer and…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vaux, Gardner, Mills
Methods for assessing the impact of fire on forest recreation were studied in a literature search and an experiment. Contingent market valuation appeared the most promising. This direct, economic approach uses personal interviews and sets up a hypothetical market transaction in…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blasing, Fritts
Spatial anomaly patterns of sea-level pressures over North America, the North Pacific, and eastern Asia in the 20th century can be statistically calibrated with spatial anomaly pattern of tree growth in semi-arid western North America. Growth anomalies prior to 1900 were…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Meehan, Merrell, Hanley
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
Burn severity directly impacts the quantity and quality of on-site plant revegetating vectors (seeds, spores, vegetative shoots and roots, etc.) that will survive the fire and be available for revegetation. Burn severity indirectly impacts the success of the invading or off-site…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Braathe
The effects of prescribed burning on organic matter, soil nutrients, pH, and spruce and pine establishment, growth and N content were studied. Burning had a beneficial effect on Calluna areas, where a thick raw humus layer occurs, but was not generally beneficial on Myrtillus…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Shapiro, Belon
ERTS-1 scene 1009-22095 (Western Seward Peninsula, Alaska) has been studied, partly as a training exercise, to evaluate whether direct visual examination of individual and custom color-composite prints can provide new information on the vegetation and geology of this relatively…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Telfer
Moose (Alces alces) are the largest surviving land mammals in the circumpolar boreal forests and the largest living representatives of the deer family (Cervidae). The weights of adult bulls in Alberta averaged 477 kg in early winter when adult females averaged 402 kg (Canadian…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
Spruce bark beetle activity was monitored over 14 years on a transect through a mixed white spruce stand on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Data confirmed bark beetle preference for attacking large-diameter, slow-growing spruce. Increased bark beetle activity was noted on north…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heinselman, Wright
Contains an introductory paper by the editors, and, in addition to papers separately noticed [see the next three abstracts], the following: Fire in the virgin forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Minnesota (M.L. Heinselman, 99 ref.); The importance of fire as a natural…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall
Description not entered.
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fetcher, Beatty, Mullinax, Winkler
Wildfires have been though to increase primary productivity in tussock tundra as well as in other ecosystems. Wein and Bliss (1973) measured net aboveground primary production in four recently burned areas of tussock tundra in northern Canada and Alaska and compared it with…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dixon, Shipley, Briggs
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boertje
Food habits of the Denali (formerly McKinley) herd of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) were studied during 1978-80 in Denali National Park, Alaska, with emphasis on diets of adult females. Data from fecal analyses, field observations, and forage digestibilities…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES