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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Brown
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beaufait, Marsden, Norum
A recent large-scale study of prescribed broadcast burning in western Montana required the development of a system for inventory of clearcut logging slash fuels before and after fire treatment. The system is best suited for inventorying material which tends to be oriented…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kramer
People are having an ever-increasing impact on their local, regional, and global environments, the impact is particularly significant on urban areas, where concentrated human development fragments and transforms natural resources, thereby resulting in large-scale environmental…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett
A standardized approach for characterizing floral and faunal communities on National Forests in the US has been developed through the USDA Forest Service*s (USDA FS) Natural Resources Information System (NRJS). We developed a method for extrapolation of floral and faunal…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall
This handbook describes quick, effective methods for documenting change in vegetation and soil through repeat photography. It is published in two parts: field procedures in part A and concepts and office analysis in part B. Topics may be effects of logging, change in wildlife…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The BLM Alaska Fire Service and Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc-a non-profit corporation formed by and for Alaska Native villages-have initiated a three-year Fuels Treatment Demonstration Project, with funding from the Joint Fire Science Program. The Joint Fire Science Program is…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Brown
Measuring hillslope erosion has historically been a costly, time-consuming practice. An easy to install low-cost technique using silt fences (geotextile fabric) and tipping bucket rain gauges to measure onsite hillslope erosion was developed and tested. Equipment requirements,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
GOALS: Deepen the scope of the Symposium as it addresses the relation of weather and climate to the four principle purposes of the Joint Fire Science Plan: a) fuels inventory and mapping, b) evaluation of fuels treatments, c) scheduling fuels treatments, and d) monitoring and…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
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
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
Li, Gong, Pu, Csiszar, Hao, Fraser, Abuelgasim
Biomass burning in North America (NA) occurs primarily over forested regions. The fires are usually so intense that they not only destroy vast tracts of forest, but also release large quantities of chemical species (CO, CO2, methane, etc.) and particles (aerosol) to the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Vihnanek
A series of single and stereo photographs display a range of natural conditions and fuel loadings in hardwood ecosystems undergoing succession to spruce in Alaska. Each group of photos includes inventory information summarizing vegetation composition, structure and loading,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Desnos
The Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV), and its six technical subgroups, continue to provide a forum for sustained debate, international co-operation and common actions. The addition of a further subgroup concerned with atmospheric chemistry has provided an…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jayaweera, Ahlnas
The Very High Resolution Radiometer of NOAA-2 and -3 can successfully locate and identify thunderstorms. Since lightning fires account for more than 90 percent of the acreage burned by forest fires in Alaska, this imagery promises to be a useful tool for forest fire control.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS