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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Deeming
For the next 10 years, few changes will be made to the fire-danger rating system. During that time, the focus will be on the automation of weather observing systems and the streamlining of the computation and display of ratings. The time horizon for projecting fire danger will…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chase
The fire program planner faces an increasingly complex task as diverse--and often contradictory--messages about objectives and constraints are received from political, administrative, budgetary, and social processes. Our principal challenge as we move into the 21st century is…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butts
Wildfires do not respect property boundaries. Whole geographic regions are typically impacted by major wildfire outbreaks. Various fire related resources can be shared to solve such crises; whether they are shared, and how they are shared depends to a great extent upon the…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tokle
In the year 2025, wildland fire fighting practices have improved significantly over the method employed during the late 1900's. Improved methods for predicting severe fire weather conditions, the establishment of the North American Fire Coordination Center, and the utilization…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee
Two meanings of human community compete for public attention: (1) community as a sense of belonging to a particular social group within a society, and (2) community as a global ideal consisting of political expression, religious fulfillment, and/or harmony with the world at…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Eenigenburg
Presents an analytical procedure that uses a FORTRAN 77 program to estimate fire direction and rate of spread. The program also calculates the variability of these parameters, both for subsections of the fire and for the fires as a whole. An option in the program allows users…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stockstad, Lory
A furnace capable of producing either spontaneous or pilot-ignition and measuring temperatures at which, these ignitions occur has been designed and constructed for use in ignition studies of fine forest fuels. One-inch-long sections of conifer needles, grass stems and leaves,…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Patterson, Edwards, Maguire
Charcoal preserved in lake sediments, peat, and soils provides a record of past fire occurrence. An understanding of fire history is important in evaluating interactions between vegetation, climate and human disturbances through at least the last several millennia. In this paper…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Muraro, Lawson
Field measurements of moisture distribution in organic layers under mature stands and in exposed slash areas, and the effect of additional precipitation are presented and discussed. Implications of the moisture distribution to control of prescribed fires and their relation to…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil, Chrosciewicz
Forest fires have played an important role in determining the type and composition of forest ecosystems in the temperate region of North America. The close association between fires and forest ecosystems has helped the resource manager to interpret the significance of fire in…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carpenter, Taylor, Cortner, Gardner, Zwolinski, Daniel
Data from three independently conducted surveys indicate a high level of support for management practices initiated and controlled by the manager. Additional analysis performed on one of the data sets further reveals the extent to which sociodemographic characteristics and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zasada, Norum, Teutsch, Densmore
Seedlings of black spruce, aspen, green alder, and grayleaf willow planted on black spruce/feather moss sites in the boreal forest in interior Alaska survived and grew relatively well over a 6-year period after prescribed burning. Survival of black spruce was significantly…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
During a prescribed-burning experiment in 80-year-old Pinus resinosa and P. strobus, temperatures below the duff surface and in the soil were measured with temperature-sensitive paints. The results were difficult to interpret, but average temperature gradients were calculated.…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Regelin, Schwartz, Franzmann
The nutritional quality of important moose forage species on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska was evaluated at bimonthly intervals for one year. The quality of forage species varied dramatically using an annual cycle. In vitro digestibility and crude protein content of a…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine, Johnson, Viereck
Studies of tundra fires between 1977-1983 in three areas of northwestern Alaska (Seward Peninsula [65°35'N], Noatak River [68°00'N], and Kokolik River [69°30'N]) representing a latitudinal gradient of 460 km. Postfire vegetation and permafrost recovery rates were documented in…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Oldemeyer, Regelin
From l974-l98l, a study was conducted on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska to determine the response of spruce and moose forage [willow (Salix spp.), aspen (Populus tremuloides), and paper birch (Betula papyrifera) to fire and habitat management. Vegetation was sampled…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
Two exclosures esablished during the 1920's were reexamined in 1965. In the dwarf shrub-lichen type browse species suppressed recovery of lichens. Full recovery of lichens had not occurred within 33 years. In several disturbed quadrats in the Dryas field-field type, recovery…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
A herd of approximately 500 reindeer was herded over a non-utilized portion of a large Eriophorum-Carex-dwarf shrub meadow near Nome, Alaska during both moist and dry conditions. After one summer of use on approximately 17 sections by the reindeer, 68% of the lichens were…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rowe
Reviews the literature on some aspects of the fire ecology of the Spruces, chiefly Picea glauca, in the boreal forest area of the north-west, where fire is an integral part of the environment and Spruces are frequently early invaders of burnt sites.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mead, Yarie, Herman
Vegetation on sample inventory plots in the Tanana River basin was described using horizontal-vertical profile descriptor techniques to show percentage of foliar cover and average height by species. These profiles were used in conjunction with species biomass equations to…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyon, Pengelly
Dr. Behan has suggested that the minerals removed in timber harvest and otherwise lost might be replaced by direct fertilization which would also increase tree growth. There are some unanswered questions in this area that probably need clarification, It has been shown, for…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Weixelman
From 1976 to 1986, 28 sites including 8,150 acres of moose (Alces alces gigas) winter range on the Chugach National Forest have been treated with prescribed fire. This is part of an ongoing project to increase the quantity and quality of hardwood browse available to moose on…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Safranyik, Linton
Twenty-two clearcut areas were sampled in central British Columbia using the line intersect method to: (a) determine the density and bark area of stumps and logs susceptible to attack by the spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby), (b) calculate sample sizes for a…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lotspeich, Mueller, Frey
From objectives (page 13): 'Objectives of the study were: (1) to develop sufficient understanding of the effects of forest fires on water quality of Alaskan streams so that it may be possible to make rational decisions for allocating manpower and funds for controlling specific…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Holsten
This biological evaluation details a re -evaluation of stands on the Chugach National Forest and adjacent lands. The original evaluations were conducted between 1979 and 1981. These stands were, at that time, rated for their potential susceptibility to spruce beetle impacts.…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES