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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Habeck
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dunn, DeBano
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gill
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans, Probasco
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klebenow
From the text ... 'Sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus Bonaparte), due to their dependence upon sagebrush-grassland habitat for food and cover, are limited in distribution to the range type dominated by sagebrush, principally big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) but also its…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Biswell
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bethea
From the text: 'In my opinion, professional foresters should be working much harder to get the facts across on prescribed burning because if we don't I feel forest management could suffer from restrictive rules or laws, both at the State and Federal level. There are still some…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Orr
'The control aspects of fire management from the hand raked fireline to the maintained firebreak can produce form, line, color & texture contrasts. Just as these contrasts can produce undesirable results, they can be used productively. It should be obvious by now that…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson
Conclusions: 'The results of this study show that black spruce and jack pine can be established successfully by broadcast seeding from the air on fresh to moist sites on a severely burned cutover area in central Newfoundland. The seeding equipment used proved satisfactory. The…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vyse, Muraro
The effect of broadcast slash burning on the cost of planting a recently logged area of over—mature coastal hemlock—balsam—cedar forest was examined. Planting output and costs were measured before and after burning the same area. Three planting methods were used: bareroot/…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
The suggestion that some forest fires should be allowed or even encouraged to burn in the large national and provincial parks is bound to evoke a wide range of reactions. For decades the forest authorities across Canada have spared no effort to convince people that forest fires…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
A procedure for forecasting the 10-hour timelag fuel moisture was developed from the theory of diffusion in wood. Studies of fuel moisture processes relating meteorological variables, as an external force, to moisture exchange processes in wood are combined here to provide a…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Frandsen
A method is presented for the evaluation of the heating efficiency required for ignition as a spreading fire closes with fuel. An array of thermocouples was implanted in the fuel ahead of the fire to obtain the heat absorbed by the fuel prior to ignition. The fraction absorbed…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Crosby
A set of value concepts and methods for appraising both values-at-risk and change in value resulting from wildfire are presented. Emphasis is placed on the effects of forest fires in terms of their affects on human and organization goal achievement. Fire effects that help…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff
Description not entered.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
A relation between fire behavior and crown scorch height is derived from measurements on 13 experimental outdoor fires. The range of data includes fire intensities from 16 to 300 kcal/s-m, and scorch heights from 2 to 17 m. The results agree with established theory that scorch…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lotan
Fire management is a much talked about subject these days, but a lot more people are talking about it than practicing it. Although the fire management concept grew out of our traditional fire control activities, significant changes in practice have been excruciatingly slow in…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Darley, Biswell, Miller, Goss
The increasing use of prescribed fire in forest management and the continuing burning of agricultural crop residues creates problems in air pollution. More information is needed on yields of pollutant gases and particulates and how these emissions might be altered by varying…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zasada
Description not entered.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
West
Livetrapping in black spruce (Picea mariana) taiga 60 km north of Fairbanks, Alaska, during 1972-1973 revealed that the dispersion pattern of the capture points for a population of northern red-backed voles varied greatly with season. The population was distributed without…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, MacLean
Germination requirements of cotton grass (Eriophorum vaginatum L.) were investigated to determine its potential for reseeding disturbed areas of the arctic tundra. Maximum seed production was 15.7 kg/ha, although production and viability varied widely. There was no seed dormancy…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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 Wagner
Some theory and observations are presented on the factors governing the start and spread of crown fire in conifer forests. Crown fires are classified in three ways according to the degree of dependence of the crown phase of the fire on the ground surface phase. The crown fuel is…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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