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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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West, Cain, Gifford
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dyrness
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Habeck
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feller
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donoghue
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haines
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
From the text ... '... we casually assume that the first Europeans were naturally confronted by a vast, impenetrable wilderness of thick forests stretching from the Atlantic to the Mississippi....Europeans were very impressed by the American wilderness. A reading of the primary…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the book jacket...'From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen J. Pyne's narrative explores the efforts of sucessive American cultures to master this forbidding kind of fire and to use it to shape the landscape. He draws not only on academic experience…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klebenow
From the text ... 'Sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus Bonaparte), due to their dependence upon sagebrush-grassland habitat for food and cover, are limited in distribution to the range type dominated by sagebrush, principally big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) but also its…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Main, Straub, Paananen
From the text 'One of the missions of wildland fire management is to integrate fire with other land management activities to achieve desired objectives at the lowest cost. When fire managers know how fires are likely to behave in an area as well as that area*s associated weather…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Green
Fire has been a major source of instability in the postglacial forests surrounding Everitt Lake in southwest Nova Scotia. Time series analyses of preserved pollen and charcoal reveal the processes involved. Correlograms and pollen sequence splits confirm that prior to 6000 years…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
The suggestion that some forest fires should be allowed or even encouraged to burn in the large national and provincial parks is bound to evoke a wide range of reactions. For decades the forest authorities across Canada have spared no effort to convince people that forest fires…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Karl, Koscielny
'Statewide averages of temperature and precipitation, from January l895 to April 1981, were intepolated to a grid and Palmer Drought Severity Indices (PDSI) calculated for each of the grid points. Principal component (PC) analysis was performed on the gridded values of PDSI. By…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'The outcome of the Southern Forestry Education Campaign was much less devisive. To begin with, its subject was not the internal distribution of agency funds but the promotion of fire protection as a concept. Nor was it concerned with the question of transient…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'But with the advent of fire protection in the South, game birds decreased much as pasturage had and as grouse populations had in Britain. The vegetative ensemble that sustained maximum populations gave way to roughage and woods. By 1923 hunting plantations in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'It is often assumed that the American Indian was incapable of greatly modifying his environment and that he would not have been much interested in doing so if he did have the capabilities. In fact, he possessed both the tool and the will to use it. That tool…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gessaman, Worthen
This volume contains abstracts, indexes of species and geographical locations, and key words in the titles of more than 220 publications that describe some aspect of the effect of weather on avian mortality.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parker
Structural/functional characteristics of the vegetative cover are used to provide common attributes for comparing vegetation patterns in Yosemite National Park, California, in the central Sierra Nevada, and Glacier National Park, Montana, in the northern Rocky Mountains.…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradshaw
Climatological data can aid in scheduling prescribed fires. Proper scheduling results in efficient fire management activities. This paper introduces several computer programs that provide climatic analysis of fire weather variables used in setting burning prescriptions.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frear
[Excerpt] The Alaska yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) is dying, and no one knows why. Even worse, a new generation of trees is not developing. Seedlings are rare in many of these dying stands. The future looks discouraging for this interesting and valuable tree.…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haugen, Slaughter, Howe, Dingman
The purpose of this report is to further our understanding of rainfall-runoff relationships in the Alaskan Subarctic by examining the eleven-year data record from the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed. Precipitation-runoff characteristics, such as recessions, streamflow…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finklin
A method is described for delineating fire climate zones, using a multiple regression relationship between a fire danger parameter and simple climatic averages. In this example, climatic averages were rainfall and daily max. temp. for the May-Aug. fire season. Fire danger was…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Barney, Berglund
A summary of climatic data during the 1968-71 growing seasons is presented for the subarctic Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest located near Fairbanks, Alaska. Data were obtained from three weather station sites at elevations of 1,650, 1,150, and 550 feet from May until September…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blasing, Fritts
Spatial anomaly patterns of sea-level pressures over North America, the North Pacific, and eastern Asia in the 20th century can be statistically calibrated with spatial anomaly pattern of tree growth in semi-arid western North America. Growth anomalies prior to 1900 were…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
From the text... 'Fused inorganic tubes caused by lightning strokes to the ground, called fulgurites, are abundant in many portions of the earth. Ample evidence of fossil fires, called fusain, lies buried in the coal beds of all the coal-forming periods known to geology. For…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS