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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Deeming
Regardless of what meaning a user attaches to fire-danger ratings the expected fire behavior is the common base on which any interpretation ultimately depends. In order for a fire-danger rating system to be useful, it must accurately and consistently predict the basic aspects of…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lancaster
Increased capabilities of the National Fire Danger Rating System have given fire managers new tools for evaluating various facets of fire management problems. These new tools require familiarization processes and new techniques for best and effective application. Suggested…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dieterich, Pickford
Prescribed burning produces particulate and gaseous air pollutants in relatively small amounts over the course of an entire year. However, on any given day, the pollutants resulting from prescribed burning may constitute a major fraction of the local or regional air pollution…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Art, Marks
A working table lists by major species, by location and by stand age, the oven dry weights of biomass and net annual primary production as well as the leaf area index for over 280 forest stands. Specific stands are arranged according to origin (plantations, natural stands,…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zoltai, Pettapiece
Earth hummocks occur on vast areas of perennially frozen mineral soils in the western Canadian subarctic regions. Different vegetation grows on different parts of the hummocks. The tops of the hummocks are vegetated by plants that have no roots (lichens, mosses) or by short-…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, Bliss
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Webber, Barney
Describes the use of the Franklin wheeled skidder instead of crawler tractors to construct firelines (to reduce damage to the soil in the tundra). The basic skidder was equipped with 2000-gal tanks to carry fire retardant, and a spreader bar to lay the retardant or water. A…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Telfer
Extensive stands of the boreal forest of Canada in the late successional stages provide a suitable habitat for some birds and for caribou but are unsuitable for many other species. Deer, moose, beaver, ruffed grouse and many other birds and mammals require the greater amounts of…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rusch, Keith
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ritchie, Hare
Earlier studies in Alaska and northwest Canada have shown inconsistent evidence for the expected northward extension of the Arctic tree line during the Hypsithermal Interval. Only megafossil evidence has supported this suggestion; the palynological findings have been…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pettapiece
Recent surveys in the Canadian subarctic have shown the wide distribution of cryogenic earth-hummock soils with permafrost. A study of chemical, physical, mineralogical and micromorphological features revealed quite acidic, partially unsaturated surface horizons, large amounts…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neiland
Major vegetational, environmental, and peat accumulation patterns were studied in the forest-bog complex of southeast Alaska. Attention was directed to three levels of vegetational pattern: (1) the community type level, with forest, bog, and intermediate types being recognized…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oldemeyer
The evaluation of forage quality for wild ungulates is reviewed and the amount and variability of carbohydrates, fats, protein, energy and digestibility of forage discussed. Results of in vitro digestion of 3 species palatable to moose on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska (Betula…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peek
This review covers 41 studies of moose food habits, including 13 from the intermountain west, 6 from Alaska, and 22 from Canada, Minnesota, Isle Royale, and Maine. Only nine of these studies include information on summer food habits, only four on year-long food habits and only…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Telfer
Trend studies of browse ranges employ permanent plots or permanently-tagged stems. Changes in browse yield and use may be accurately estimated using a relatively small sample if successive measurements are taken on the same stems. The survey method decribed here combines the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor
The purpose of this paper is to indicate that lightning has a pervading influence on all trophic levels in the biological community, and that it affects the physical environment as well.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sykes, Tallmon, Mills
Research data and literature are sparse on fire in the taiga and subartic zones, especially regarding effects of fire on soil and water relations and on associated resource management considerations. In the scattered existing work, there is disagreement regarding effects of fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stelfox
A white spruce forest along the Athabasca Valley of Western Alberta was logged in 1956-57 by clearcutting strips 10 x 40 chains with intervening uncut strips measuring 8 x 40 chains. These unlogged strips were clearcut 12 years later. Following logging, all but one strip was…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Slaughter, Sylvester, Wein, McVee, Klein
In preparing for this symposium, discussion inevitably turned to the many facets of wildfire in the subarctic which should be considered - material, philosophical, economic. Is fire detrimental to the environment? 'Are the practices which you employ in controlling wildfires (…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gives the texts of 23 papers: Principles of fire ecology and fire management in relation to the Alaskan environment (E. V. Komarek; 37 ref.]; Erosion, soil properties, and revegetation following a severe burn in the Colorado Rockies (W. D. Striffler and E. W. Mogren; 41 ref.);…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scotter
Of various factors which might limit barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) populations, destruction of range by fire is one. Fire, caused by lightning or man, generally affects only the caribou's winter range in the taiga or northern regions of the boreal…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Richardson
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quirk, Sykes
In a south-facing subbasin of Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, several mature white spruce stringers, apparent relics of extensive stands that have escaped fires, were studied. Tree-ring investigations show that the mature spruce stringers have remained…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES