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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Schwartz
This is a typed version of the speech given. This report discusses how timber wildlife species are associated with different forest stands, forest succession in general, and the relationship between a few species and forest succession.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
Reviews the subject of lightning fires in N. America, and designates 7 lightning fire bioclimatic regions: southern Pine forest, eastern deciduous forest, central grasslands, boreal forest, tundra, western mountain complex, and tropical rain forest.
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nellerman
Description not entered.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jansen
Notes (Do Not Cite): 'Fire has played an important role in the boreal forest of the Northwest Territories. It is clear that by applying fire to the landscape, early nomadic man was able to manipulate the surrounding forest habitat. At the turn of the century, these traditional…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cater
Description not entered.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suter, Gillingham
Abstract notes, do not cite: Willow had overcompensatory growth responses to biomass removal. While growth increased and remained high at all clipping treatment levels, tannin production initially increased at moderate levels of clipping and decreased after repeated clipping…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simard
From the introduction (page 2): 'The critical factor as to whether the duration or amount of precipitation is limiting with respect to absorption of water is the maximum rate of absorption by the fuels. The purpose of the present study is to determine the rate at which various…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simard
From the introduction (page 5): 'The present paper is the first of a series dealing with forest fuel moisture. The ultimate purpose of the study is to provide regression equations for estimating forest fuel moisture directly from antecedent and current weather observations. This…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reynolds
A total of 5,597 photo points was systematically located on 1:60,000-scale high altitude photographs of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska; photo interpretation was used to classify the vegetation at each grid position. Of the total grid points, 12.3 percent were classified as…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Causes of low calf recruitment in the Southern Alaska Peninsula Caribou Herd and recent herd history
The purposes of this report are to review the past population dynamics of the herd and report on recent field investigations conducted on the range of the SAPCH [Southern Alaska Peninsula Caribou Herd], including those accomplished on the calving grounds from 29 May through 16…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Patric, Black
From introduction: 'Long ago, Fernow wrote concerning 'the desirability of utilizing the Weather Bureau, the various agricultural experiment stations, and other forces, in forming a systematic service of water stations, and in making a careful survey of the conditions of water…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kelsall
Description not entered.
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kayll
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002 (https://www.frames.gov/catalog/18093)] Through a review of literature, the essential role of fire in the boreal forest as a natural regulatory agent of composition and succession is discussed in terms of plants, soils, and animals. In…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
This report gives the history of spruce beetle activity in Alaska from 1920 - 1989. Maps are included, as is an extensive Alaska spruce beetle bibliography.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
This report is in the form of a table presenting insects impacting Alaskan forests, their hosts, general location of activity and general remarks.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gasaway, Boertje, Grangaard, Kelleyhouse, Stephenson, Larsen
(Partial) We help resolve 3 major problems facing wildlife managers and wildlife users of northern ecosystems: 1) defining what factors limit moose (Alces alces) at low densities in lightly exploited systems, 2) achieving consensus on potential moose harvest yields, and 3)…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crosby, Curtis
Spruce bettle remains at epidemic levels in area of the Kenai Peninsula and areas of activity were noted in the Copper River Valley. Large aspen tortix was common throughout interior Alaska. Hemlock sawfly declined sharply in southeast Alaska. Black-headed budworm populations…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
In this report, we have presented spread index and buildup index frequency information for selected stations in Alaska. Also, methods to extract and utilize the information were discussed. In doing this, we have provided another tool for the fire planners in Alaska. The tool…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
MacCracken, Viereck
This study was undertaken to estimate the short-term effects of fire on plant response and moose (Alces alces Miller) browse following the Rosie Creek fire near Fairbanks, Alaska. The fire consumed forests of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michc.), paper birch (Betula…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lavender, Parish, Johnson, Montgomery, Vyse, Willis, Winston
The book provides silviculturalists with a broad reference to the science and technology of reforestation in British Columbia, the single most diverse forest region in North America. It includes experience gained from practical reforestation projects and from scientific studies…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hulten
This monumental work by the world's preeminent authority on Arctic floras—the first comprehensive, up-to-date botanic manual for this region—is the product of the author's more than forty years of study of circumpolar floras. The book describes and illustrates all flowering…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donaldson, Paul
This user's guide is an introductory manual for using the 1988 version (Burgan 1988) of the National Fire-Danger Rating System on an IBM PC or compatible computer. NFDRSPC is a window-oriented, interactive computer program that processes observed and forecast weather with fuels…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skoog
Description not entered.
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
Description not entered.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten, Werner
When white spruce is infested with spruce beetle broods, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby), more beetles are produced than when Lutz and Sitka spruce are infested. In spite of host suitability differences, outbreaks of the spruce beetle have been more frequent and severe in stands…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES