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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Topic

Year

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Changes in water infiltration capacities following burning of a ponderosa pine forest floor

Zwolinski
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The dum palm - Hyphaene thebaica (Del.) Mart

Fanshawe
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The natural history of palms

Corner
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed burning to reduce kudzu fire hazard

Bruner
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effect of stubble removal on seed production of Bromegrass, Bromus inermis Leyss

Knowles
Bromegrass seed fields are often directly combined and the remaining growth harvested as hay. It is of interest to determine the effects of this stubble removal on subsequent seed crops. Information on burning of stubble as it affects seed yields would help in the settlement of…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Soils of the boreal forest: a preliminary survey

Larsen
None available
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Late-Pleistocene environments of North Pacific North America

Heusser
[from the text] The science of palynology has come a long way since the presentation of the first paper on modern pollen analysis by Lennart von Post at Oslo in 1916. Like many sciences it was initiated as a rather narrow discipline and consisted largely of interpretation of…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Interpreting the timberline: an aid to help park naturalists to acquaint visitors with the subalpine-alpine ecotone of western North America

Arno
This paper attempts to survey timberlines of western North America in a manner primarily designed to serve public interpreters of natural history, such as park naturalists. Hopefully, this broad discussion of the timberlines will also be of interest to biologists and some…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Forest and range fire control in Alaska

Robinson
From introduction: 'Alaska has a crucial forest fire problem. Since organized fire control began in 1940, areas burned have averaged 1.2 million acres annually. The largest loss of actual record occurred in 1957 when fires swept over 5 million acres of public lands. It is…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The origin of basal scars in the British Columbia interior white pine type

Molnar, McMinn
Basal scarring, a conspicuous abnormality of western white pine (Pinus monticola Dougl.) and its associated species in the Interior region of British Columbia, was found to be chiefly attributable to injury by bears, infections of Armillaria mellea (Vahl ex Fr.) Quel., fire,…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

History of the early occurrence of moose on the Kenai Peninsula and in other sections of Alaska

Lutz
Description not entered.
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Effects of slash burning on conifer regeneration in southeast Alaska

Harris
In 1957, circular plots in a burnt clear-felled area, in old-growth Western Hemlock and Sitka Spruce and in an adjacent unburnt area, were sown after burning, first by hand and again, 3 months later, from the air. Results were assessed from initial seedling establishment (from…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Fire as an ecological factor in the boreal forest of Alaska

Lutz
From introduction: 'The boreal forest of Alaska represents the northwestern portion of a great transcontinental forest belt that extends through more than 110 degrees longitude, from Newfoundland and the Labrador coast in Canada to the limits of tree growth on the Seward…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Tundra and taiga

Mackay
Description not entered.
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Change in distribution and availability of nitrogen with forest succession on north slopes in interior Alaska

Heilman
Forest succession on north slopes in interior Alaska results in the development of sphagnum bogs on sites formerly occupied by productive forest. This process is one of gradual deterioration of site associated with the accumulation of moss layers on the forest floor. Advancing…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Spruce seed as a food of red squirrels and flying squirrels in interior Alaska

Brink, Dean
Feeding trials from Nov. 1962 through June 1963, in an outdoor enclosure in Alaska, showed that red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) can survive for 3 weeks and possibly more, solely on Picea glauca seed, consuming ca. 144 cones/day/squirrel, but they thrive poorly on P.…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ecological effects of forest fires

Ahlgren, Ahlgren
A review of literature, with chief reference to North America, but including also much literature from other parts of the world, under the main heads: effects of fire on soil (moisture relations, texture, temperature during and after burning, fertility, and chemical composition…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS