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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Biotic provinces of the world: further development of a system for defining and classifying natural regions for purposes of conservation

[no description entered]
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A system to predict the occurrence of lighting-caused forest fires

Kourtz
The efficiency of aerial fire detection patrolling could be significantly improved if a reliable thunderstorm tracking and lighting fire prediction scheme were available. One method to determine the areas over which thunderstorms have passed requires the use of expensive…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The 1977 tundra fires in the Seward peninsula, Alaska: effects and initial revegetation

Racine
During summer 1977, wildfires burned extensive areas of maritime tundra in the Seward Peninsula. This study was initiated in July 1978 to determine the effects of these fires on tundra soils and vegetation and to establish permanent plots in which to monitor postfire succession…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Computerized fire weather forecasting in Atlantic Canada

Goldrup, Jordan
[no description entered]
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rhizina root rot: severity and distribution in British Columbia

Ginns
Rhizina undulata Fr. occurred on about one-third of the 160 logging sites sampled 1 year after each area was burned. Three years after burning, apothecia were rarely found. The fungus causes mortality of seedlings planted on burned sites. Severity of attack within a seedling…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Progress toward locating lightning fires

Latham
Systems to enable land managers to locate, evaluate, and counter the fire threat of lightning storms are in the early stages of development. In the western U.S. and Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management has established networks of instruments that locate lightning strikes by…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Landsat digital analysis of the initial recovery of the Kokolik River tundra fire area, Alaska

Hall, Ormsby, Johnson, Brown
During late July and early August 1977, a wildfire burned a 48 square kilometer area in the tundra of northwestern Alaska near the Kokolik River. The environmental effects of the fire were studied in the field and from aircraft and Landsat data. Three categories of burn…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire danger rating application to integrated land use planning

Gray
From Introduction and Background: During 1976-77, the Slave Lake Forest prepared a Management Issues Report that outlined, in order of priority, all areas requiring integrated resource management planning. The Big Bend area was designated as the priority area for fire danger…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Detection of thunderstorms from satellite imagery for forest fire control

Jayaweera, Ahlnas
The Very High Resolution Radiometer of NOAA-2 and -3 can successfully locate and identify thunderstorms. Since lightning fires account for more than 90 percent of the acreage burned by forest fires in Alaska, this imagery promises to be a useful tool for forest fire control.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS