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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Van Nest, Alexander
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger-rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The proceedings contain 10 papers. Four deal with the development and calibration of detailed site-specific process-based models: carbon partitioning, examination of the causes of the decline in net primary production (NPP) in balsam fir (Abies balsamea) with a detailed process-…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roads, Chen, Fujioka, Burgan
An experimental fire severity forecast effort is described herein. Daily to monthly regional forecasts of nea rsurface fire-weather variables from the Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center experimental forecast system are being utilized for an experimental US Forest…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rechel, Tissell, Riggan
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mann
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kurz, Beukema, Merzenich, Arbaugh, Schilling
The Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) examines the impact of landscape-scale disturbances while evaluating alternative management treatment levels. VDDT simulates changes in vegetative composition and structure resulting from both management activities and natural…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
De Volder
In order to define the fire regime in Kenai NWR black spruce forests, a detailed fire and climate history study was undertaken. Utilizing techniques of dendrochronology I dated fire scars, and dated the outer-rings of fire-killed trees (burn poles) within areas of unknown fire…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz
Master of Science thesis.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zaidlicz, Smayda
Unpublished material--Photo collection from line rehabilitation fire B107, 1999 (Eklutna)
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wesser, Barnes
This study concludes that spruce beetles had a substantial immediate influence on forest structure in terms of canopy and basal area reduction, and changes in forest species composition. Factors that increase risk of infestation are also discussed.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Various authors contribute short notes regarding spruce bark beetle infestation impacts in the Copper River Basin. Subjects include grasses, voles, birds, spruce trees and spruce beetles.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Putman
Data sheets from Tanana Chief's Conference 1988 allotment inventory were examined for information relating to bark beetle activity. 7 of the 19 stands nearest the bark beetle infestation had actual tallies of bark beetle activity.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mitchell, Hinzman
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKnight
The Tanana/Michumin Plan (T/M Plan) and subsequent plans radically changed wildfire management in Alaska. The adoption of these cooperative plans created areas where fires were no longer aggressively attacked due to the low economic resource value of those lands. The primary…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
The Kink fire started June 12, 1999 and burned 92,010 acres before it was declared out September 13 (Map 1). The primary vegetation was black and white spruce with aspen patches on drier south-facing slopes and scattered birch poplar. Rehabilitation measures following the burn…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, DeFries
Captioned pictures of three different hazard reduction fuels treatments behind the Ft. Greely housing unit, and the resulting fire severity of each treatment, plus description of vegetation returning to the burned area, 1 month post-fire.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Summary of treatments, including photos before and after rehabilitation of Fire B222. Also includeds assessment of resource risk based on soils/vegetation.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten, Thier, Schmid
The spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby), is the most significant natural mortality agent of mature spruce. Outbreaks of this beetle have caused extensive spruce mortality from Alaska to Arizona and have occurred in every forest with substantial spruce stands. Spruce…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hatsushika, Kim, Yamazaki
From introduction: The Frostfire Burning Experiment was done in the boreal forest of interior Alaska during July 8 to 15, 1999 (Hayasaka and Shinohara, 1999). The experiment was scheduled in the site for investigating the impacts of forest fire on the boreal ecosystem and the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haggstrom
From background (page 1): The Region III Habitat Enhancement Program was initiated in 1995 after the state legislature established a state funded Capital Improvement Project (CIP) for this purpose in 1994. A second CIP, containing both federal and state fund, was established by…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCambridge
Reports on black-headed budworm activity in southeast Alaska, spruce beetle on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska and larch beetle along the Kuskokwim River in interior Alaska during the summer of 1954.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fogarty, Alexander
Most rural fire managers have a fairly good idea of when grasslands will burn vigorously or not at all. At one end of the fire behavior spectrum are conditions where grasslands are green or affected by recent rain, and fires will not start nor spread. At the opposite end, fire…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES