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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rowe, Scotter
The boreal forest in North America owes much of its floristic and faunistic diversity to periodic fires ignited by lightning and by man since he appeared on the scene. The indirect evidences of buring in vegetation and soils, and recent direct observations of fires, are reviewed…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wright, Heinselman
Contains an introductory paper by the editors, and, in addition to papers separately noticed [see the next three abstracts], the following: Fire in the virgin forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Minnesota (M.L. Heinselman, 99 ref.); The importance of fire as a natural…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ramberg
Describes satisfactory trials in Alaska of a system for the safe distribution of smoke grenades from helicopters (to ignite controlled fires along firelines, etc.).
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pettapiece
Recent surveys in the Canadian subarctic have shown the wide distribution of cryogenic earth-hummock soils with permafrost. A study of chemical, physical, mineralogical and micromorphological features revealed quite acidic, partially unsaturated surface horizons, large amounts…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strang
A preliminary comparison of burned and unburned tracts in the northern boreal forest of the lower Mackenzie River valley indicates that, without periodic fires, trees will be eliminated and the climax vegetation will be a moss/lichen association. The implications for land…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oldemeyer
The evaluation of forage quality for wild ungulates is reviewed and the amount and variability of carbohydrates, fats, protein, energy and digestibility of forage discussed. Results of in vitro digestion of 3 species palatable to moose on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska (Betula…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peek
This review covers 41 studies of moose food habits, including 13 from the intermountain west, 6 from Alaska, and 22 from Canada, Minnesota, Isle Royale, and Maine. Only nine of these studies include information on summer food habits, only four on year-long food habits and only…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
In the taiga of Alaska, permafrost and vegetation are closely related. In areas underlain by permafrost, the nature of the vegetation is important in determining the thickness of the active layer. In a black spruce stand, the active layer is normally 30-60 cm thick. Flooding has…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
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
Taylor
The purpose of this paper is to indicate that lightning has a pervading influence on all trophic levels in the biological community, and that it affects the physical environment as well.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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
Zoltai, Pettapiece
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zoltai, Tarnocai
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilton, Evans
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, Weber
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strang
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melchior
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LeResche, Franzmann, Arneson
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Helmers, Cushwa
An appraisal of taiga (the northern forests of interior Alaska) environment research opportunities and needs was made based upon accomplishments since Alaskan statehood, current involvement of citizens in resource issues, information needs incident to the National Environmental…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heginbottom
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hard
This, the second in a series of publications summarizing knowledge about the forest resources of southeast Alaska, deals with destructive forest insects. The report covers the impact of the major defoliators and bark beetles that affect trees in southeast Alaska. Suggested…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haag
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES