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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Mobley
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
This paper is a comprehensive review of operational research studies in forest fire management during the years 1961 through 1981. It includes a brief discussion of fire management decision making, summaries of and comments regarding the practical merits of the work that has…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
Fine-fuel moisture content tables, using dry bulb and dewpoint temperatures as entry data, have been developed for use with the National Fire-Danger Rating System in Alaska. Comparisons have been made which illustrate differences resulting from danger-rating calculations based…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LeVan, Schaffer
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LeVan, Schaffer
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson, Holliday
Fifteen months after an intense forest fire, the fauna of carabid beetles in burnt and unburnt sites was sampled using pitfall traps to detect the indirect effects of fire on carabids caused by habitat change. Traps were installed in burnt and unburnt sites in which the dominant…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bevins
Two computer programs for testing alternative fire prescriptions are presented. Program RXBUILD creates a fire occurrence and a fire weather, danger, and manning class file for use by the second program. Program RXFIRES reads user fire selection criteria are tested against the…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradshaw
Climatological data can aid in scheduling prescribed fires. Proper scheduling results in efficient fire management activities. This paper introduces several computer programs that provide climatic analysis of fire weather variables used in setting burning prescriptions.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Battson, Cawker
This study involved an evaluation of the various measures of fire occurrence as recorded in lake sediments. A short core (90cm) was extracted from Mashagama Lake, Ontario. The basin was burned in 1948 and 1967, yielding two zones, one burned and one unburned in the sediment core…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catchpole, de Mestre, Gill
The Byram index of fire intensity is extended from the head of a fire to include its total perimeter. Variation in intensity is plotted against different variables for an elliptical fire front; for one of these variables (the normal angle) this plot is shown to apply to an…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Frear
[Excerpt] The Alaska yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) is dying, and no one knows why. Even worse, a new generation of trees is not developing. Seedlings are rare in many of these dying stands. The future looks discouraging for this interesting and valuable tree.…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
Sitka spruce produces twice as many needles per linear inch of twig as western hemlock. Defoliation by the black-headed budworm is more severe on hemlock than spruce because of differences in the phenological development of the hosts and in the feeding behavior of first- and…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Oliver
Yearly applications of N, P, and K fertilizer for a 6-year period to a young, postfire aspen forest, resulted in substantial increases in tree growth primarily in response to nitrogen. The main effect of N was to increase, by at least a factor of two, the stand leaf area index,…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephens, Gass, Billings
Data from a series of plots in well stocked, even-aged Picea sitchensis/Tsuga heterophylla stands 30-170 years old (that had developed after logging (a), windblow (b) or fire (c) on various freely drained soils) were used to determine a site index based on total height and age…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stednick, Tripp, McDonald
Stream water samples and soil samples were analyzed to determine the effects of slash burning on soil and water resources in the coastal hemlock-spruce (Tsuga heterophylla, Picea sitchensis) forests of southeastern Alaska. A comparison of water samples from above and below the…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Richardson, Holliday
Fifteen months after an intense forest fire in Manitoba, the fauna of carabid beetles in burnt and unburnt sites was sampled using pitfall traps to detect the indirect effects of fire on carabids caused by habitat change. Traps were installed in burnt and unburnt sites in which…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Odum
The principles of ecological succession bear importantly on the relationships between man and nature. The framework of successional theory needs to be examined as a basis for resolving man's present eviromental crisis. Most ideas pertaining to the development of ecological…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oberle
Discusses (with particular reference to conditions in Alaska) the value of occasional small fires in burning undergrowth and litter to prevent the accumulation of inflammable material and the risk of major damage, the erosion likely to be caused by using bulldozers to make fire…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Carroll, Bliss
Open woodland forests dominated by Pinus banksiana occur on sandy soils in northeastern Alberta and northwestern Saskatchewan and are generally even-aged and uniform in height. Ordination techniques were used to divide the stands (n = 38) into the following communities: Pinus…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
Description not entered.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
Thaw depths and soil temperatures are compared for three adjacent sites in interior Alaska: an unburned stand of black spruce/feathermoss-Cladonia type; an adjacent stand, originally of the same type, burned in 1971; and a fireline between the two in which all of the vegetation…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
From the Summary: 'I have discussed the reaction and behavior of animals to fire, smoke and the resulting burnt ground along four general lines: (1) Avoidance response to fire and smoke; (2) Animals attracted to fire and smoke; (3) Animals relationships to blackened areas caused…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Milke
Notes (Do Not Cite): Moose preferred S. alaxensis, S. arbusculoides, S. pulchra, and S. interior. Least selected species were: glauca, Barclayi, and hastata. Preference independent of relative abundance. S. alaxensis and S. pulchra most widespread in Interior. SAL has highest…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Controls over regeneration of tundra graminoids in a natural and man-disturbed site in arctic Alaska
Description not entered.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Gregory
This paper reviews literature concerning natural regeneration of white spruce in the southern boreal forest and incorporates what is known about this subject for the boreal forests of interior Alaska. A mineral soil seedbed; reduction of competing vegetation; shade, especially…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES