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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mutch, Cook
Periodic forest, grassland, and shrubland fires are part of the natural environment-as natural and vital as rain, snow, or wind (Heinselman 1978). Evidence of past fires is found in charcoal layers in lakes and bogs, and in the fire-scarred cross sections of trees. Recurring…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno
In September 1995, the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) held its Annual Meeting at the University of Washington in Seattle. The meeting included two dozen conferences and several symposia and field trips dealing with various aspects of applying ecological restoration on…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The 26 papers in this document address the current knowledge of fire as a disturbance agent, fire history and fire regimes, applications of prescribed fire for ecological restoration, and the effects of fire on the various forested ecosystems of the north-western United States.…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keetch, Byram
The moisture content of the upper soil, as well as that of the covering layer of duff, has an important effect on the fire suppression effort in forest and wildland areas. In certain forested areas of the United States, fires in deep duff fuels are of particular concern to the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Robichaud
Considerable attention has been focused on the impacts of forest management decisions on the environment in recent decades. Burning after timber harvest is a common site preparation technique and its effect on soil erosion is of increasing concern, particularly on steep terrain…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Running
Chapter 23 in the book titled, Global change and terrestrial ecosystems.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Breyfogle, Ferguson
Several smoke-dispersion models, which currently are available for modeling smoke from biomass burns, were evaluated for ease of use, availability of input data, and output data format. The input and output components of all models are listed, and differences in model physics…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lavdas
This is a user's manual for VSMOKE, a computer program for predicting the smoke and dry weather visibility impact of a single prescribed fire at several downwind locations. VSMOKE is a FORTRAN 77 program that depends on the input in file VSMOKE.IPT to generate output in file…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
We begin our study of wildland fire with the basic principles and mechanisms of the combustion process-fire fundamentals. In the next chapter we look at wildland fire as an event. Fire behavior is what a fire does, the dynamics of the fire event. In later chapters we move up the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Johnston
We stood with the gray-haired ranger on a high ridge in Oregon overlooking a thousand square miles of forest. [from the text] The night before, my GEOGRAPHIC colleague Jay Johnston and I had watched a particularly violent thunderstorm of the type that plagued the Northwest in…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daubenmire
This chapter reviews the ecology of fire in grasslands. It describes several generalizations such as environmental alterations, effects on species of plants, effects on vegetation, and associated animals. The grassland essentially includes any herb-dominated vegetation, herb…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Anderson, Anderson
Small plot and aerial spray trials have shown that nonsprouting greenleaf manzanita in the Cascade Range can be killed by a single aerial application of 3 pounds of 2, 4-D per acre. Conifers planted amid the dead shrubs should be caged in hardware cloth cylinders for protection…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zackrisson, Nilsson, Wardle
Wildfire is a major disturbance factor in boreal forests where it is important in rejuvenating soil properties and encouraging tree regeneration and growth. However, the mechanisms behind these effects are poorly understood and little is known as to the ecological effects of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Van Cleve
Changes in foliar chemistry resulting from changes in forest-floor and mineral-soil moisture availability, forest-floor microbial energy supply, and nitrogen availability were investigated across the successional sequences in both upland and floodplain landscape positions. Three…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
Deteriorating forest health is causing unprecedented damage to the boreal forests of Alaska. Forest health is a complex issue that must be adressed within the context of ecosystem management and the goal of managing ecosystems for long-term productivity and maintaining…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Viereck, Dyrness
State factor controls of soil and forest development were examined in floodplain primary and upland secondary successional ecosystems along the Tanana River in interior Alaska. Topography is the principal difference in state factor control of structure and function of these…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Starfield, Chapin
One of the greatest challenges in global-change research is to predict the future distribution of vegetation. Most models of vegetation change predict either the response of a patch of present vegetation to climatic change or the future equilibrium distribution of vegetation…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reynolds, Holsten
Stand data from Lutz and Sitka spruce forest types occurring on the Kenai Peninsula were analyzed by tree-based classification and abductive inference to develop decision models for classifying spruce beetle hazard. Model development and validation data sets contained 286 and 88…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Persson
Fire blight was for the first time observed in a pear orchard in southern Sweden in 1986. Since 1989 the disease has spread along the south and west coast with the most frequent number of new outbreaks in 1990. Besides pear, hawthorn, apple, Sorbus aria and Cotoneaster…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Johnson, Katnik, Magoun
During 1991-94 we tested whether martens (Martens americana) selectively used postfire seres in the Alaskan taiga and whether selection could be explained by differences in marten hunting behavior, habitat, prey abundance, or demography. Forest seral stages included early-…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nash, Johnson
The coupling of synoptic scale weather conditions with local scale weather and fuel conditions was examined for 2551 fires and 1,537,624 lightning strikes for the May-August fire seasons in 1988, 1989, 1992, and 1993 in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The probability of lightning fire…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
Observations were made on Tamiasciurus hudsonicus in mature Picea glauca forest during 2 years of cone crop failure. For the first winter an adequate supply of old Spruce cones cached in previous years was available. The second crop failure brought about a 67% drop in the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
The average annual linear rates of growth of Cladonia alpestris, C. rangiferina and C. sylvatica on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, were determined to be 5.0, 5.3, and 5.4 mm, respectively. These averages are higher than those of northern Canada and some areas in the U.S.S.R.…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Earle, Brubaker, Anderson
The charcoal content of surface and late-Quaternary lake sediments in boreal forests of northcentral Alaska was investigated using an image-analysis procedure that tallied and measured the area of charcoal particles in size classes. Modern sediments were from mud-water…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stocks, Lawson
Canada's current method of fire danger assessment is known as the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS), which took shape in the late 1960s when the Candian Forest Service (CFS) envisioned a modular design for a national fire danger rating system. The CFFDRS…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES