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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Yarie, Van Cleve, Schlentner
Two thinning and fertilization studies, the first in 1969 and the second in 1971, were established to evaluate the question of nutrient limitation to tree growth and the consequences of stand manipulation of soil moisture supply. Fertilizer was applied yearly for the first 5…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Oechel, Hom
This paper reports results of a study designed to examine the control that soil temperature exerts on soil processes associated with nutrient flux, and in turn, on tree nutrition in interior Alaska black spruce ecosystems. Approximately 50 m2 of forest floor in a 140-year-old…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson, Jandt
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Quintilio
This paper offers some insights into the field approach to conducting experimental forest fires based on two decades of experience dealing with a wide variety of fuel types, burning conditions, and resultant fire behavior. The practical aspects involved in designing a study area…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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
Nellerman
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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Notes (Do Not Cite): 'Fire has played an important role in the boreal forest of the Northwest Territories.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
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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
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
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
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
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
Foote
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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
Hjeljord, Hovik, Pedersen
We observed forage habitat selection in radio-collared moose at feeding sites in southeast Norway. Use of older forest increased from spring to autumn. Birch Betula spp. and bilberry Vaccinium mrytillus accounted for c. 75% of the diet. Occurrence of important forage plants,…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Henry, Gunn
During the summer of 1987, 500-1000 caribou became stranded on Rideout Island in Bathurst Inlet, Northwest Territories. The 40 km2 island did not have sufficient forage to support the animals until freeze-up, and the caribou eventually died from malnutrition after severely…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, Shaw, Hansen
Alaska yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D. Don) Spach) has been declining and dying for a long, but undetermined, span of time in remote and undisturbed forests of southeast Alaska. Aerial photographs indicate mortality was widespread by 1927. The dates of death for…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, Hansen, Shaw
Alaska-cedar, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D. Don) Spach, has been dying in undisturbed forests throughout southeast Alaska for the last 100 years. To determine if decline spreads, boundaries of mortality at seven sites with decline were mapped using aerial photographs taken in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanson
The interior of Alaska is a vast area characterized by cold soils which are often underlain by permafrost; a continental climate with great extremes in temperature; and the taiga, a pattern of boreal forest and tundra which is largely the result of past wildfires (Viereck, 1973…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Zackrisson
Successional processes within northern Swedish boreal forest are investigated for the last 2000 years by analysis of pollen, charcoal fragments and insect remains preserved in a deep mor humus layer on a small island in a large lake. Frequent disturbances by fire, blow-down,…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES