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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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LaPerriere
Description not entered.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kershaw
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heginbottom
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hard
This, the second in a series of publications summarizing knowledge about the forest resources of southeast Alaska, deals with destructive forest insects. The report covers the impact of the major defoliators and bark beetles that affect trees in southeast Alaska. Suggested…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
One hundred thirty forest stands ranging in age from 1 month postfire to 200 years were sampled and described by successional series and developmental stage. Patterns of change in the two successional series are described. In addition, 12 mature forest communities are described…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
This paper presents a brief survey of the research literature on wildfire behavior and effects and assembles formulae and graphical computation aids based on selected theoretical and empirical models. The uses of mathematical fire behavior models are discussed, and the general…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brown
To facilitate debris management, procedures for inventorying downed woody material are presented. Instructions show how to estimate weights and volumes of downed woody material, fuel depth, and duff depth. Using the planar intersect technique, downed material is inventoried by…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bliss
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney, Berglund
Records of 21 stations were analyzed for the occurrence, persistence, and related visibility resulting from summertime wildfire smoke and haze in interior Alaska. Maximum probability of smoke occurrence for any station and month was 8.7 percent in July for Bettles. Seasonal…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Culbertson
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adams
This paper by Bill Adams, BLM Alaska State Office, Division of Fire Control, was developed with a research needs analysis by the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska. It expresses of program management, including BLM's fire program and provides a view of future fire management,…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maikawa, Kershaw
The postfire recovery sequence in spruce woodland growing on drumlins in the Abitau-Dunvegan Lakes area of the Northwest Territories is described. Four phases are recognized: year 1 to year 20, the Polytrichum phase dominated by P. piliferum, and Lecidea granulosa and L.…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mackay, Mackay
Experiments were carried out during the 1967-1972 period in an attempt to measure cryostatic (frost-induced) pressures by means of soil pressure cells installed in nonsorted circles (mud hummocks) at Inuvik, N.W.T. Although slight soil pressure increases were measured in the…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LeResche, Bishop, Coady
Moose (Alces alces) have been present in Alaska since mid- to late-pleistocene times. They probably survived in relatively small, disjunct groups wherever suitable habitat could be found throughout this period, when a tundra-steppe community dominated much of the Alaska refugium…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kozlowski, Ahlgren
This interdisciplinary treatment examines, in depth, both the beneficial and harmful effects of fire on temperate-zone and tropial ecosystems. Separate chapters deal with effects of fire on herbaceous and woody plants, soils, soil organisms, birds, and mammals. One treats the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Wildland fire involves both chemical and physical processes. When wildland fuel burns, its stored chemical energy is converted to thermal energy or heat through complex chemical reactions. But for the reactions to be started, heat must be physically transferred from a firebrand…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, Hardy
Teaches fire tower spotters to recognize dangerous fire weather conditions based upon observation and measurements. Includes instructions on use of various equipments. Contains a complete two-color 'Relative Humidity and Dew Point Table' in the back.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Agee
[From the text] Fire has been an integral part of America's wildlands for millions of years. The only environments not experiencing fire as a significant ecological factor were those that remained very cold, very wet, or very dry, and even in these regions, extreme variation in…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
West
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eastman
Habitat use by moose was studied in the sub-boreal spruce zone of British Columbia from 1971-1973 for dry, modal and wet environments. Comparisons between burns, cutovers and undisturbed forests were based on post-winter pellet group counts and monthly checks of tagged twig…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calef
The potential effects of the proposed gas pipeline project on the Porcupine caribou herd have been assessed using published and unpublished literature, and 3 years of field data collected by consultants to the Environment Protection Board and Canadian Arctic Gas Study Ltd.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jayaweera, Ahlnas
The Very High Resolution Radiometer of NOAA-2 and -3 can successfully locate and identify thunderstorms. Since lightning fires account for more than 90 percent of the acreage burned by forest fires in Alaska, this imagery promises to be a useful tool for forest fire control.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS