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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Simonin
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weber
In the boreal forests of North America, fire is the keystone ecosystem process that organizes the physical and biological attributes of the biome over most of its range. Boreal forest ecosystem structure and function are described in terms of the adaptations evolved in response…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roessler, Packee
The Tanana River basin in interior Alaska occupies approximately 11.9 million hectares. Forests of the basin consist of white or black spruce (Picea glauca, P. mariana), tamarack (Larix laricina), paper birch (Betula papyrifera), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and balsam…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg, Alvarado
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Ottmar, Bluhm, Vihnanek
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Alvarado, Ottmar
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons
The restoration of fire to its natural role in wilderness has proven to be a significant challenge to the United States Federal wilderness management agencies. Although both natural (lightning) ignitions and management-ignited fires have been generally accepted as appropriate…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons
Despite clear legislative and policy direction to preserve natural conditions in wilderness, the maintenance of fire as a natural process has proven to be a significant challenge to federal land managers. As of 1998, only 88 of the 596 designated wilderness areas in the United…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary, Robichaud, Beyers
Following wildfires, burned areas are assessed by special teams to determine whether emergency watershed rehabilitation measures are required to restore watershed function and minimize damage to soil resources. The objective of burned area emergency rehabilitation (BAER)…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Jin, Fraser
A comprehensive investigation of Canadian boreal forest fires was conducted using NOAA-AVHRR imagery. Alogorithms were developed to (1) detect active forest fires, (2) map burned areas on daily and annual basis, and (3) estimate fire emissions based on burned area and Canadian…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hinzman, Yoshikawa, Fukuda, Bolton, Petrone
The purpose of this study is to investigate the short and long-term impacts of wildfire in the boreal forests of Interior Alaska. Our working hypothesis is that wildfire affects the short- and long-term ground thermal regime and soil moisture content in different ways with…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayasaka
This paper describes results of FROSTFIRE, a forest fire experiment carried out in July 1999 and also surveys results of the Donnelly Flats forest fire in June 1999 from the point of view of forest fire behavior. An investigation of the Donnelly Flats forest fire site found that…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Harden, Maines, Ottmar, Sandberg, Valentine
The forest floor contributes the majority of carbon and nitrogen emitted by boreal forest fires. Therefore, estimates of C and N emissions require characterization of volumetric C and N storage of mature stands. Sampling the forest floor by <5-cm depth increments, we have…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lehmkuhl
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wurtz
To document possible soil nitrogen mosaics before timber harvesting on three boreal forest sites in Alaska, maps of the distribution of understory green (Alnus crispa (Alt.) Pursh) and Sitka alder (A. sitchensis (Reg.) Rydb.) stems were made. Understory alders were regularly…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Urquizo
The Boreal Shield is Canada's largest ecozone. It covers almost 20% of the country's land mass, contains 43% of its commercial forestland, and accounts for 22% of the freshwater surface area. This assessment report reviews findings and highlights current trends relating to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Theisen
Alaska Fire Control Service was established in 1939. It was charged with fire protection and prevention for all Alaska. It concentrated on the major population centers for this protection. In the mid 1950s smokejumpers and helitack were added and a concentrated effort was made…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rosencraz
The challenge of managing wildland fire on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is increasing in complexity and magnitude. Catastrophic wildfire now threatens millions of acres, particularly where vegetation patterns have been altered by past land-use practices…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schulz
Vegetation plot data suggests that bluejoint reed grass is becoming less vigorous twenty years after initial spruce beetle outbreak. Lack of spruce in-growth in burned plots suggests that the fire destroyed most regenerating trees. Minimal numbers of spruce seedlings may be…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
As resource managers, we all have the problem of too much information and not enough time to read and assimilate it. We sometimes make decisions with inadequate knowledge because we don't have time to find pertinent information or think that it doesn't exist. The Fire Effects…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Starr
The scientific literature on logging after wildfire is reviewed, with a focus on environ-mental effects of logging and removal of large woody structure. Rehabilitation, the practice of planting or seeding after logging, is not reviewed here. Several publications are cited that…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Magoun, Dean
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Meyers
Paired permanent vegetative cover transects were established after a small (2 ha) 1981 tundra fire in the Buckland River valley of western Alaska. Data on the regeneration of forage lichens was collected 14 years after the burn and compared to conditions in adjacent unburned…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES