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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Radford
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kayll
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 natural, long-term cycles, the incidence of lightning-started fires on a particular…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quirk, Sykes
In a south-facing subbasin of Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, several mature white spruce stringers, apparent relics of extensive stands that have escaped fires, were studied.Tree-ring investigations show that the mature spruce stringers have remained fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
Fire ecology is discussed in relation to basic ecological processes; the characteristics of the fire environment are reviewed. Lightning and lightning storms are considered as the primary natural cause of fires in nature. The nature of fire and its relationship to plants,…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strang
From the text ... 'At the request of the Provincial government, an ecological examination was carried out between 1966 and 1968, to determine whether afforestation would be practical. The soil and vegetation of the heathlands were examined in detail and compared with adjacent…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foggin, DeBano
This paper describes the nature of water repellency, factors causing repellency, and geographic implications of findings from recent studies.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson
Between 1961 and 1963 two balsam fir cutovers were burned under low fire hazard conditions. The treatment eliminated practically all balsam fir advance growth and reduced the quantity of slash and other debris. The reduction was considered sufficient to facilitate the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones, Johnston
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flora
Appraisal of damage to forests from insects, fire, and disease has been approached in many ways. In North America, at least, no single Thing to Do has evolved. With the help of comments by Pooh and his associates, the article is a brief review of alternative damage appraisal…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daubenmire
This chapter reviews the ecology of fire in grasslands. It describes several generalizations such as environmental alterations, effects on species of plants, effects on vegetation, and associated animals. The grassland essentially includes any herb-dominated vegetation, herb…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vogl
...fire has been generally misrepresented. It is a neglected factor in many forests. Fire needs public understanding and acceptance. We should compare fire's beneficial effects to its well-known detrimental effects before we dismiss all fire as bad, and all wood smog as…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Hilton
This paper reports on the effects on lowbush blueberries and associated species of pruning by two methods of burning and by mechanical clipping, on three dates in the growing season at a north-eastern Ontario location. Significant soil changes recorded during the study are…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
The purposes of this study are to: 1. provide burning prescriptions for hazard reduction; 2. determine if burning will improve planting-crew efficiency by reducing the physical barrier of slash accumulations; 3. evaluate the effect of burning on reversal of site deterioration by…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rusch, Keith
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ritchie, Hare
Earlier studies in Alaska and northwest Canada have shown inconsistent evidence for the expected northward extension of the Arctic tree line during the Hypsithermal Interval. Only megafossil evidence has supported this suggestion; the palynological findings have been…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neiland
Major vegetational, environmental, and peat accumulation patterns were studied in the forest-bog complex of southeast Alaska. Attention was directed to three levels of vegetational pattern: (1) the community type level, with forest, bog, and intermediate types being recognized…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
Observations were made on Tamiasciurus hudsonicus in mature Picea glauca forest during 2 years of cone crop failure. For the first winter an adequate supply of old Spruce cones cached in previous years was available. The second crop failure brought about a 67% drop in the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
The average annual linear rates of growth of Cladonia alpestris, C. rangiferina and C. sylvatica on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, were determined to be 5.0, 5.3, and 5.4 mm, respectively. These averages are higher than those of northern Canada and some areas in the U.S.S.R.…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kryuchkov
Description not entered.
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sykes, Tallmon, Mills
Research data and literature are sparse on fire in the taiga and subartic zones, especially regarding effects of fire on soil and water relations and on associated resource management considerations. In the scattered existing work, there is disagreement regarding effects of fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002(https://www.frames.gov/rcs/18000/18093.html)]This paper deals with investigations which concentrated on certain aspects of the direct and indirect effects of surface fire on the soil in the jack pine barren community in northern Ontario…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Slaughter, Sylvester, Wein, McVee, Klein
In preparing for this symposium, discussion inevitably turned to the many facets of wildfire in the subarctic which should be considered - material, philosophical, economic. Is fire detrimental to the environment? 'Are the practices which you employ in controlling wildfires (…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gives the texts of 23 papers: Principles of fire ecology and fire management in relation to the Alaskan environment (E. V. Komarek; 37 ref.]; Erosion, soil properties, and revegetation following a severe burn in the Colorado Rockies (W. D. Striffler and E. W. Mogren; 41 ref.);…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scotter
Of various factors which might limit barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) populations, destruction of range by fire is one. Fire, caused by lightning or man, generally affects only the caribou's winter range in the taiga or northern regions of the boreal…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES