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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wein, Bliss
The arctic cotton grass (Eriphorum vaginatum ssp. spissum) tussock community is susceptible to fire even though it has a relatively small aboveground standing crop and the peaty substrate is wet even in years of low precipitation. While burns can be severe enough to kill all…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viereck
The taiga of Alaska consists of a vegetation mosaic resulting primarily from past wildfires. Today, both lightning- and man-caused wildfires burn an average of 400,000 hectares annually, creating vast areas of successional ecosystems. However, although the number of reported…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve
Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizers were applied to 15-year-old quaking aspen developing on a burned site in interior Alaska. After two years of nutrient application, maximum tip, diameter, and basal area growth averaged 27.1 cm, 0.72 cm, and 2.9 cm per tree,…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sims, Buckner
Clear felling followed by prescribed burning was recently introduced into Manitoba as a standard forestry practice for site preparation. Though the total population of small mammals was lower immediately after burning, Peromyscus maniculatus re-established rapidly to form 84% of…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shafi, Yarranton
Areas of boreal forest in the clay belt of N. Ontario, burned at various dates from 0 to 57 years ago, were examined. The range of vegetation present was plot-sampled in each area, and a simple test of heterogeneity, based on the number of significant correlations between…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rowe, Scotter
The boreal forest in North America owes much of its floristic and faunistic diversity to periodic fires ignited by lightning and by man since he appeared on the scene. The indirect evidences of buring in vegetation and soils, and recent direct observations of fires, are reviewed…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wright, Heinselman
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
Ramberg
Describes satisfactory trials in Alaska of a system for the safe distribution of smoke grenades from helicopters (to ignite controlled fires along firelines, etc.).
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strang
A preliminary comparison of burned and unburned tracts in the northern boreal forest of the lower Mackenzie River valley indicates that, without periodic fires, trees will be eliminated and the climax vegetation will be a moss/lichen association. The implications for land…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murphy, Kessel, Vining
A study of duck habitat use patterns and limnology in eastern interior Alaska revealed that ponds hydrologically connected to a creek system had greater use by ducks and higher levels of most nutrients and ions that those hydrologically isolated from a system. Phosphate level…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
In the taiga of Alaska, permafrost and vegetation are closely related. In areas underlain by permafrost, the nature of the vegetation is important in determining the thickness of the active layer. In a black spruce stand, the active layer is normally 30-60 cm thick. Flooding has…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oswald, Senyk, Brown
Vegetation analysis, classification, and mapping are being conducted in Yukon Territory for the primary objectives of determining productivity of forests, to elucidate successional sequences, to provide data for wildlife habitat evaluations, and to provide baseline data for…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larson
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Juday
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Helm, Collins, McKendrick
Vegetation associated with various successional stages was studied on the Susitna River floodplain, southcentral Alaska, during 1981 summer. The objective of the study was to identify the vegetation successional sequence(s) and to approximate a time frame for these stages.…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vanderlinden
From the introduction: 'The transition in philosophy from wildfire control to wildfire management, from total protection of resources from fire to integration of fire as a tool to accomplish land and resource management objectives, has only recently taken place. Fire is…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephenson
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sopuck, Vernam
Notes (Do Not Cite): Moose distribuation was determined by vegetation and topography. Habitats greater than 300 m elevation were used significantly more than expected. Surveys were conducted in February and March. Moose used riparian areas and Salcha burn (15 yrs old).
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Singh
Biomass data obtained from 336 trees representing six major species of the Northwest Territories were used to derive regression equations for estimating ovendry biomass for stem and nonstem components. The predictor variables were the diameter at breast height outside bark and…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norum, Miller
Methods and procedures are given for collecting and processing living and dead plant materials for the purpose of determining their water content. Wildland fuels in Alaska are emphasized, but the methodology is applicable elsewhere. Guides are given for determining the number…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, Weixelman
Hardwood moose browse production was measured in five prescribed burn units and two wildfire sites and was compared with production in adjacent control sites. Production of moose browse averaged 41.1 kg/ha in the control units and 71.8 kg/ha in the nonslashed burn units…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strang
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LeResche, Franzmann, Arneson
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Helmers, Cushwa
An appraisal of taiga (the northern forests of interior Alaska) environment research opportunities and needs was made based upon accomplishments since Alaskan statehood, current involvement of citizens in resource issues, information needs incident to the National Environmental…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES