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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Pyne
From the text... 'But with the advent of fire protection in the South, game birds decreased much as pasturage had and as grouse populations had in Britain. The vegetative ensemble that sustained maximum populations gave way to roughage and woods. By 1923 hunting plantations in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'It is often assumed that the American Indian was incapable of greatly modifying his environment and that he would not have been much interested in doing so if he did have the capabilities. In fact, he possessed both the tool and the will to use it. That tool…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Omi, Laven
The existing literature on wildland fire is assessed in terms of both the biological and social impacts of prescription fire on recreational wildlands. Gaps in the literature are noted and future areas of needed research are suggested, with particular emphasis on the Rocky…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
George
Operational parameters for an S2F airtanker were monitored on a series of wildland fires to verify previous assumptions concerning typical flight envelopes. Results confirmed the validity of the procedure and instrumentation used in obtaining real-time aircraft drop height,…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cole, Jensen
Interaction models for the dominant crown class were developed for estimating average height to base of crown (crown height) and average crown length (depth) as a function of stand density and average height of dominant trees - for even-aged lodgepole pine stands in Montana,…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gessaman, Worthen
This volume contains abstracts, indexes of species and geographical locations, and key words in the titles of more than 220 publications that describe some aspect of the effect of weather on avian mortality.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kurth
Crews have evolved in a natural progression of responses to meet needs in the wildland fire community and provide effective large fire support around the nation. They have been expected to perform consistently and effectively in the most challenging fire environments in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gucinski, Furniss, Ziemer, Brookes
Effects of roads in forested ecosystems span direct physical and ecological ones (such as geomorphic and hydrologic effects), indirect and landscape level ones (such as effects on aquatic habitat, terrestrial vertebrates, and biodiversity conservation), and socioeconomic ones (…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Althaus, Mills
In analyzing fire management programs for their economic efficiency, it is necessary to assign monetary values to the changes in resource outputs caused by, fire. The derivation of resource values is complicated by imperfect or nonexistent commercial market structures. The…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haven, Hunter, Storey
Reported rates at which hand crews construct firelines can vary widely because of differences in fuels, fire and measurement conditions, and fuel resistance-to-control classification schemes. Real-time fire dispatching and fire simulation planning models, however, require…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mills, Bratten
The Fire Economics Evaluation System (FEES) - a simulation model - is being designed for long-term planning application by all public agencies with wildland fire management responsibilities. A fully operational version of FEES will be capable of estimating the economic…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bratten
A theoretical probability model has been developed for analyzing program alternatives in fire management. It includes submodels or modules for predicting probabilities of fire behavior, fire occurrence, fire suppression, effects of fire on land resources, and financial effects…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Hessl, Peterson
We explored spatial patterns of low-frequency variability in radial tree growth among western North American conifer species and identified predictors of the variability in these patterns. Using 185 sites from the International Tree-Ring Data Bank, each of which contained 10-60…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berg, McClaugherty, Virzo De Santo, Johnson
This synthesis paper presents a model for estimating the buildup of soil organic matter in boreal deciduous and coniferous forests. A basic model was developed using data from a well-studied Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forest (SWECON site) and based on limit values for…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ringvall, Stahl, Teichmann, Gove, Ducey
Point relascope sampling and transect relascope sampling were recently proposed as methods for the inventory of downed coarse woody debris. By only counting logs with a relascope device, the total length squared (with point relascope sampling) or the total length (with transect…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stocks, Wotton, Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) represents a major field activity of the International Boreal Forest Research Association's Fire Working Group and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme's project on global atmospheric chemistry associated with…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Papineau
Wintertime (November-March) surface air temperatures at 14 stations throughout the state of Alaska are correlated with the Southern Oscillation Index and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation index, for the years 1954-2000. On the seasonal and monthly timescales, the principal results…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nowacki, Spencer, Fleming, Brock, Jorgenson
Major ecosystems have been mapped and described for the State of Alaska and nearby areas. Ecoregion units are based on newly available datasets and field experience of ecologists, biologists, geologists and regional experts. Recently derived datasets for Alaska included climate…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elias
The mutual climatic range (MCR) method of paleoclimate reconstruction has been employed by paleoentomologists for the last decade. A quantitative, calibrated method, MCR has many advantages over qualitative methods. The method has now been developed for arctic faunas. Climate…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards, Mock, Finney, Barber, Bartlein
The paleoclimatic history of a region can be viewed as a series of surface temperature and moisture anomalies through time. The effects of changes in large-scale climatic controls (e.g., insolation, major circulation controls) can be mediated by the influence of smaller-scale…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holocene climate inferred from oxygen isotope ratios in lake sediments, central Brooks Range, Alaska
Analyses of sediment cores from two lakes in the central Brooks Range provide temperature and moisture balance information for the past 8500 cal yr at century-scale resolution. Two methods of oxygen isotope analysis are used to reconstruct past changes in the effective moisture…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hess, Scott, Hufford, Fleming
Examining the relationship of El Niño to weather patterns in Alaska shows wide climate variances that depend on the teleconnection between the tropics and the northern latitudes. However, the weather patterns exhibited in Alaska during and just after moderate to strong El Niño…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Riebau, Fox
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement new regulations for the management of atmospheric particulate matter 2.5 µm and less in diameter (PM2.5), tropospheric ozone, and regional haze in the next few years. These three air quality issues relate…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Queen
Fire modeling and information system technology play an important supporting role in fuel and fire management. Modeling is used to examine alternative fuel treatment options, project potential ecosystem changes, and assess risk to life and property. Models are also used to…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS