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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Roberts-Pichette
Description not entered.
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rieger, Furbush, Schoephorster, Summerfield, Geiger
Soils of the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed (41.5 sq mi), central Alaska, were mapped by standard soil conservation service (USDA) methods. Seven soil series were recognized. Bradway silt loams, Ester silt loams, Karshner silt loams and Saulich silt loams, all underlain…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Renecker, Karidis, Bauer
The global objective of this study was to define techniques that could be used to describe the 'critical habitat requirements' of reindeer in the Beringia Heritage International Park and be related to animal productivity. To accomplish this resource management goal for the…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
Description not entered.
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mask
As of 1992, beetle-caused spruce mortality ranged from 8 to 68% of the spruce component within 5 sample areas. Continued beetle activity and tree mortality are expected for at least the next two to three years. Management alternatives are discussed.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mask
During the winter of 1981, a windstorm caused extensive blowdown in the Yakutat area. In 1988, 20 permanent plots were established to monitor spruce beetle activity. A reevaluation of these plots in 1991 revealed low spruce beetle populations and minimal tree mortality since…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin
From objectives (page 2): 'The project objectives are: 1) determine if fires around lake and wetland margins affect the flow of nutrients into the wetlands, 2) determine of an increased flow of nutrients in wetlands from fire influences waterbird densities on the wetlands, and…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lotspeich
Description not entered.
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lawson
Description not entered.
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Larson
Data collected in conjunction with the multiresource inventory of southeast Alaska in 1985-86 included downed wood along 234 transects at 60 locations. Transects occurred in 11 forest types and 19 plant associations within the entire southeastern Alaska archipelago. Downed wood…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lait, Taylor
Describes the application, in the boreal forest, of Australian methods of counter-firing by incendiary capsules dropped from helicopters [cf. FA 32, 945]. A prototype machine was developed for the priming and release of the capsules, since these operations are slow and awkward…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kaye
Description not entered.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Paragi
Description not entered.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System is a subsystem of the larger Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System, which also includes the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. The FBP System provides quantitative estimates of head fire spread rate,…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beckwith, Curtis
This report documents the examination of 20 spruce beetle impact plots established on the Kenai Peninsula in 1971. The general result of the infestation in most areas of the Kenai Peninsula is a reduction in the size of the residual stand. Type conversion has not occurred. The…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Curtis
The spruce beetle continues to be the most damaging forest insect in Alaska. The Kenai Peninsula outbreak continues to be quite active while the outbreak on the west side of Cook Inlet is causing widespread and extremely heavy mortality. Both hemlock sawfly and black-headed…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A spatial model of long-term forest fire dynamics and its applications to forests in western Siberia
Description not entered.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shugart, Leemans, Bonan
The boreal forests of the world, geographically situated to the south of the Arctic and generally north of latitude 50 degrees, are considered to be one of the earth's most significant terrestrial ecosystems in terms of their potential for interaction with other global scale…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
It is almost dogma that the boreal forest in North America is a fire dependent forest, yet ecologists often do not consider in any technical detail how forests fires produce effects on individual plants and on plant populations. Consequently, the casual connection between the…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Reynolds, Dean, Miller
Satellite imagery is a valuable tool for environmental monitoring of natural and man-made events. Analysis of imagery within a few hours is vital if these data are to be used to respond to rapidly changing conditions. Since April of 1982 Landsat imagery from the Quick-Look…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payette
Major patterns of plant communities and species distribution are induced by various disturbance regimes operating at a different spatial and temporal scales (Loucks 1970; White 1979; Bormann & Likens 1979b; Delcourt, Delcourt & Webb 1983). The development of temperate…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
Forest insect and disease populations and related damage increased throughout Alaskan forests in 1991. Spruce bark beetle populations increased for the third consecutive year. 375,000 acres were impacted in 1991. Hardwood defoliator activity increased for the second year and…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holling
[Intro first paragraph] Human activities are increasingly affecting the relation between the biota and the physical environment. That has long been true of resource developments that have transformed vegetation on a regional scale. Now, however, the scale of human influence has…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bliss, Wein
Data are presented on several current studies being conducted in the Mackenzie Delta and the Arctic Archipelago in relation to oil and gas exploration. Tundra fires destroy most of the aboveground plant cover and result in significant increases in depth of the active layer. Fire…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS