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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Andrews, Bradshaw
One of the studies being conducted by the Fire Behavior Research Work Unit at the Intermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana in an analysis of the relationship between fire danger rating indexes and fire occurrence data. We believe that this work can be used to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stocks, Lawson
The behavior of single point-ignition and line-ignition experimental fires was studied in upland black spruce (Picea mariana [Mill.] B.S.P.)-lichen (Stereocaulon paschale [L.] Hoffm.) woodland stands at Porter Lake in the Caribou Range of the Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) from…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sestak
Ventilated Valley Box Model is a screening model designed to predict ground level concentrations of particulate matter and gaseous pollutants under stagnation conditions in mountain valleys. The model assumes completely mixed valley with defined top; simplicity requires several…
Year: 1991
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Loranger, Bailey, Larned
Data from standardized aerial surveys during 1964-90 were used to study the timing, extent and rate of decline of winter densities of moose (Alces alces) in early seral forest burned in 1969 (13-21 yr post-fire), in mid-successional forest burned in 1947 (17-43 yr post-fire) and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burnside
This letter to Ann Wieland of the Kachemak Bay Citizens Coalition updates the spruce beetle situation in Kachemak Bay State Park and adjacent lands. Background information regarding spruce beetle on the Kenai Peninsula is offered as well as a discussion of spruce beetle…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bayley, Schindler
Three hypotheses on the effects of wildfire on stream chemistry (the alkaline ash, nitrate and evapotranspiration hypotheses) are outlined and results presented from a 17-year data set on stream chemistry from two burned boreal forest watersheds in NW Ontario (covering water…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fleischman
Regional patterns of lichen abundance, and lichen availability as affected by snow, were investigated on the range of the Delta Caribou Herd, Alaska. Snow only mildly affected lichen availability in windswept tundra on peripheral ranges, since lichens grew primarily on xeric…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Chase, LeVan, Tran
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brotak
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Buckley
National concern for the welfare of fish and wildlife in Alaska is evidenced by provision in the Alaska Statehood Act withholding administration of this resource from the state until such time as the Secretary of the Interior certifies to the Congress that the Alaska State…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Redmann
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein
Caribou and wild reindeer populations fluctuate over time. On this fact there is general agreement. Factors responsible for population limitation and subsequent declines have been examined within the framework of animal population theory. There is, however, little agreement…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hinzman, Kane, Gieck, Everett
Almost all biological activity in far north regions takes place within a shallow zone above the permafrost called the active layer. The active layer is the surficial layer of the soil system which thaws every summer. In Imnavait watershed, a small headwater watershed north of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Spruce beetle attacks and surviving beetle brood in limbed and bucked spruce in south-central Alaska
The current policy in south-central Alaska for treatment of spruce slash to prevent increase of spruce beetle populations is to limb felled trees that remain on the site and buck the stems into bolts about 0.6 m long. In this study, bucking of stems into short lengths, a costly…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gorham
Boreal and subarctic peatlands comprise a carbon pool of 455 Pg that has accumulated during the postglacial period at an average net rate of 0.096 Pg/yr (1 Pg = 1015g). Using Clymo's (1984) model, the current rate is estimated at 0.076 Pg/yr. Longterm drainage of these peatlands…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan, Van Wagner
This study investigates the impact of postulated greenhouse warming on the severity of the forest fire season in Canada. Using CO2 levels that are double those of the present (2 X CO2), simulation results from three general circulation models (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flannigan, Wotton
This study investigates the relationship between lightning activity and the occurrence of lightning-ignited forest fires in the Northwestern Region of Ontario. We found that the Duff Moisture Code (a component of the Fire Weather Index System) and the multiplicity of the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeGrosbois, Kershaw, Eton
A homogeneous 4.3-ha area of black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P) forest located 10 km north of Fort Norman, Northwest Territories, was selected for this study. A 25 m wide corridor was cleared in the spring of 1985 to simulate a transport corridor (e.g., winter road,…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen
Smoldering ground fires spread slowly (about 3 cm h-1) and can raise mineral soil temperatures above 300 degrees C for several hours with peak temperatures near 600 degrees C, resulting in decomposition of organic material and the death of soil organisms. Smoldering ground fire…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Collins, Smith
Various methods were investigated for assessing the relationships between wind-hardened snow (upsik) and forage availability to reindeer. Mean bottom area of individual craters was not a function of depth, hardness or integrated hardness. Individual crater area was partially…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ballard, Whitman, Reed
Demography, movements, and habitat use of moose (Alces alces) were studied in south-central Alaska from 1976 through early 1996 and historical data were reviewed. Initially this study tested the hypothesis that predation by wolves (Canis lupus) was limiting moose population…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
Monoterpenes, principal components of turpentine, have been shown to be inversely correlated with N mineralization and nitrification rates in ponderosa pine soil, and are suspected to be allelopathic substances causing germintion inhibition or growth regulation. Because…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swift, Rundel
The annual species occurring after fire in the chaparral can be loosely grouped into two categories. Generalist species are found in disturbed areas other than burns and these species remain a part of the post-fire flora for up to five years. Fire-specialist species only occur…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson, Tilman
The interactive effects of fertilization and disturbance on plant community structure and resource availability were studied by supplying four levels of nitrogen and applying four intensities of tilling to a 30 year old field in a factorial design for 2 years.© Springer-Verlag.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bildstein, Bancroft, Dugan, Gordon, Erwin, Nol, Payne, Senner
Coastal wetlands rank among the most productive and ecologically valuable natural ecosystems on Earth. Unfortunately, they are also some of the most disturbed. Because they are productive and can serve as transporation arteries, coastal wetlands have long attracted human…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS