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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Swanson, George, Luedecke
This manual and user guide for individual tanker aircraft is intended to: 1) introduce a basis for systematic planning so that specific air tankers can be employed in the most effective manner based on their inherent capabilities or limitations and the local fire/fuel situation…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Regan, Kourtz, Nozaki
The bias involved in a point-process analog (Dijkstra algorithm) to a continuous fire is shown to be related to the number of points involved in the definition of adjacency and the degree of directionality of the rates of spread. If the point-process starts with a fire perimeter…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Getter
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Eaton
For more than a half-century, it has been public policy to suppress all brush and forest fires, yet contrary to Smokey the Bear's conventional wisdom, not all fires may be harmful. Recent evidence suggests that periodic small fires may benefit forests and wildlife. A long period…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Benech
An experimental project on convective plumes initiated from the ground by an exceptionally powerful artificial heat source has been carried out. The heat source consisted of 97 oil burners releasing a total power of 600 MW. The measuring equipment consisted of a ground network…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavdas
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ffolliott, Clary, Baker
The forest floor affects the hydrological cycle, herbage production, tree regeneration, and fire behavior. Forest floor depths and weights under ponderosa pine stands on soils developed from sedimentary parent materials were similar to those previously found on soils developed…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Helmers
Fire access usually should be via ridges, where soil tends to be shallow, erosion hazards minimal, and timber cover most open. Dry slopes with deep permafrost or none are useable, but any slope is a potential erosion hazard. Permafrost areas, muskegs, and poorly drained sites…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coady
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein
Characteristics of over 50 tundra fires, located primarily in the western Arctic, are summarized. In general, only recent records were available and the numbers of fires were closely related to the accessibility of the area. Most of them covered areas of less than one square…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nichols
From palynological studies it appears that northernmost dwarf spruces of the tundra and parts of the forest-tundra boundary may be relicts from times of prior warmth, and if felled might not regenerate. This disequilibrium may help explain the partial incongruence of modern…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
In 1931 Herbert L. Stoddard, the Dean of Game Management in his classic investigation of the Bobwhite Quail stated: 'While an immediate and direct effect of burning is, of course always apparent, the general effect of long-continued annual or irregular but frequent burning upon…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff
Notes (Do Not Cite): The point-center-quarter and Shafer twig-count methods were used to estimate availabaility of hardwood browse and consumption by moose on the Tanana River flood plain near Fairbanks. In 8- and 15- year -old stands, respectively, 38 and 113 kg/ha of…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve
From 'purpose' section: 'The principal objective of research conducted by the Forest Soils Laboratory is to provide information which will aid in understanding selected aspects of tree growth and forest development in the unique environment encountered in subarctic Alaska.…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palmer
Notes (Do Not Cite): Paired transects for lichen cover were established on 15 burned/unburned and grazed/ungrazed ranges aged 3 to 41 years, in the Fairbanks, Circle, Delta vicinity. The author estimates that 75% of the lichen range in the 'Fairbanks section' has burned over…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LaPerriere
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kershaw
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Year: 1976
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
Culbertson
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Year: 1976
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