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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Reed
The effects of the risk of fire or other unpredictable catastrophe on the optimal rotation period of a forest stand are investigated. It is demonstrated that when fires occur in a time-independent Poisson process, and cause total destruction, the policy effect of the fire risk…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Euler
Fire is portrayed as both a natural and an inescapable fact of life in North American forests and the adaptability of the forest environment to periodic fire is discussed. The effect of fire on wildlife habitat and patterns, and the role of fire in regulating biotic productivity…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson
The equations presented by G. M. Byram in 1959 for calculating energy flow rate in the wind field (P w ) and in the convection column (P f ) above a wildland fire are inconsistent because units for each rate are not those of an energy rate (or power) per unit area. New equations…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Regulations relating to the Clean Air Act requirement that Federal actions conform to the appropriate state, tribal, or federal implementation plan for attaining clean air.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Becker, Phillips, Keller
Pyrolysis of white pine wood has been studied in thin samples (1.6 mm thick slabs) exposed in an oven at 199-365 degrees C and in thick samples (8-50 mm diam branch segments) exposed in a wind tunnel at 365-525 degrees C and 3-18 m/s wind speed. In the limit case of sufficiently…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Becker, Phillips
In a previous study, single sticks of dry white pine 8-50 mm diam were exposed in a high-termperature wind tunnel providing effective wind speeds of 3-18 m/s. The working section wall temperature and gas temperature were equal, 357-857 degrees C. Several regimes of behavior were…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
Changes in the small mammal community in recently logged upland Black Spruce (Picea mariana) and mixedwood stands near Manitouwadge, Ontario, were documented for two to three years after a light fire in early summer and after a severe fire in late summer. Populations on the two…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Becker, Phillips
In the previous study, single sticks of dry white pine 8-50 mm diam. were exposed in a high-temperature and the gas temperature were equal, 357-857 C. Several regimes of behavior were perceived, among them a regime typically occurring at tempertaures above 500 C in which fully…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
To sum up, policy, strategy, personnel and equipment employed to suppress forest and range fires has changed dramatically over the past 70-year history of the Forest Service. Most of this change has come during the past 25 years, with the establishment of research laboratories…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
González-Cabán
Costs of mopping up wildfires have been difficult to estimate because data are not recorded in a way conducive to separate total fire cost into components such as personnel and equipment or mobilization and demobilization of crews. To estimate costs, 25 National Forests in three…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Holsten, Vandre
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Holsten
Pheromone baited traps and trap trees attracted an aggregate of 29 scolytid species associated with white spruce in three localities in Alaska. Species diversity was higher in Fairbanks than in the Brooks Range or the Kenai Peninsula. Scolytids were found inhabiting all bark-…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Viereck, Marion
This paper provides an overview of the environmental setting, rationale, and organization of a multidisciplinary research programme designed to examine the role of salt-affected soils in primary succession on the Tanana River floodplain of interior Alaska. The association of…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sugai, Schimel
Forest floor samples from early, intermediate and mature successional sites in the taiga of interior Alaska (USA) were exposed to 14C-labelled glucose and two phenolic acids. The results indicate that microbes present in the taiga forest floor metabolize phenolics. At all sites…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
On fire. Fire behavior, fuel succession and vegetation response to fire in the Swedish boreal forest
A study was made of the relationship between fire behaviour and vegetation dynamics in the Swedish boreal forest. This paper is based on 4 papers published or submitted for publication elsewhere: the original papers are included in appendices.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schaefer
The scales of spatial patterns of the vascular understorey were examined during postfire succession in the taiga of southeastern Manitoba. Patterns of individual species from analogous burned (5 years old) and old-growth (= 90 years old) communities were revealed using Paired…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Russell, Martell, Nixon
Partial copy. Notes (Do Not Cite): The PCH migrates from summer range on the arctic coastal plain of Alaska and Yukon to winter in the forested valleys and plains of north-central Yukon and western Alaska. Lichen biomass in winter range averaged 65 g/m2, mainly Cladina and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rechel
The workshop brought together professionals in the fields of fire, weather, and spatial analysis from the USDA Forest Service, the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service, and universities. The forum enabled the diverse group of professionals to investigate…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Post
From introduction: 'Many of Alaska's estimated 170 million acres of wetlands owe their existence to permafrost. Permafrost, a layer of impermeable, frozen soil below the surface, creates wetlands in seasonally thawed soils. The value of wetlands created by permafrost bas been…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paré, Bergeron, Camire
The concentrations and contents of organic matter and nutrients in organic deposits on the forest floor were estimated along a 231-yr chronosequence following fire at the southern limit of the boreal forest in eastern Canada. The sampling design was stratified to take into…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paré, Van Cleve
Soil nutrient availability was assessed on unharvested white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) sites, on a recently harvested site and on 14-year-old postharvested sites stratified into four different regeneration types defined by surface soil conditions and colonizing species…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paré, Van Cleve
Nutrient content and biomass of aboveground annual production, and nutrient content of total aboveground biomass, of 14-year-old assemblages of plants developing on harvested white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) sites were estimated by vegetation harvesting and compared…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nance, Hobbs, Radke, Ward
Airborne measurements of several gaseous and particulate chemical species were obtained in the emissions from a wildfire that burned in an old black spruce forest in Alaska during the summer of 1990 [Fire A121 in Yukon Flats]. The relative proportions of most of the measured…
Year: 1993
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
Dyrness, Van Cleve
Surface soils on recently deposited alluvium along the Tanana River, Alaska, have an elevated pH and are high in salts such as calcium carbonate and calcium sulfate. With advancing plant succession surface soil chemistry changes, and when the alder - balsam poplar stage is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES