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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Endean, Johnstone
The srpuce-fir forest of the Alberta foothills are often characterized by deep organic matter accumulations on the soil surface and cold soil tempertatures, both of which make reforestation difficult and result in a general deterioration in site productivity. Prescribed burning…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the text... 'The Duff Moisture Code (DMC) of the Fire Weather Index (FWI) (Can. For. Serv. 1970) was designed to follow the day-to-day moisture changes in a pine forest duff layer of 1 lb./ft2 dry weight (about 5 kg/m2). During work on the DMC (Van Wagner, Can. For. Serv.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldrup, Jordan
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cooper
Prescribed burning is a preferred treatment in many fuel management situations because of its low cost, campatibility with other land-use objectives, and little or not undesirable side effects. The problems, limitations, and associated consequences of fire treatments are…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Uman
From the text (p.430) ... 'The primary purposes of this paper are to convey to the reader some feeling for the history of lightning research, a general idea of how lightning 'works', some quantitative data regarding its physical parameters, and information on how these are…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the text (p.422) ... 'That lightning can effect trees in diverse ways has been recorded for a long time and in fact, also occurs in the early mythology of man. However,the serious scientific study of these effects on various plants and animals has been very sporadic and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil, Silversides
An inexpensive and simple technique for measuring the average wind velocity in the lower 600 m of the atmosphere is proposed. The technique uses 30-g pilot balloons filled with helium. Final position of the balloon is measured by a clinometer and a compass--instruments which are…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryabukha
Discusses various practical measures to prevent the spread of fire on forest peat bogs already drained or to be drained. These measures include reduction of the depth or frequency of the drains; the use of sluice-gates to regulate the flow; and the creation of 'dams' across the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Methven, Murray
'...Thus the use of fire in mature red and white pine stands has been demonstrated to have definite potential for the control of balsam fir and the establishment of white pine regeneration, whether the management objective is purely commercial or also involves recreational and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doan, Martell
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram, Nelson
Buoyancy production rates for a pure heat source and for a fire heat source of burning woody fuels show that fire may be regarded as pure source yielding heated air rather than heated combustion products.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Countryman
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Roussopoulos
In testing accuracy of the planar intersect method, bias due to nonhorizontal orientation of woody particles ranged from 8 to 39 percent. Bias due to the use of arithmetic average diameters instead of quadratic mean diameters for solving volume equations ranged from 9 to 16…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pank
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knipe
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams, Sheinson
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Joly, Jandt
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) began studies of the winter range of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd (WACH) in 1981. Twenty permanent vegetation transects were deployed within the Buckland River valley on the northeastern side of the Seward Peninsula. Additional sites added…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vining, Merrick
Because American national forests are managed for all citizens, it is important that researchers explore the differences and similarities between citizens living both near and far from publicly managed land. We surveyed residents living at various distances from nationally…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butry, Donovan
Climate change, increased wildland fuels, and residential development patterns in fire-prone areas all combine to make wildfire risk mitigation an important public policy issue. One approach to wildfire risk mitigation is to encourage homeowners to use fire-resistant building…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Brown, Dale
A recent series of severe fire seasons in the United States has contributed to sharply rising wildfire suppression costs. These increasing costs have caught the attention of policymakers, but so far the responses have not focused clearly on the incentive structures that allow or…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Donovan
Making input decisions under climate uncertainty often involves two-stage methods that use expensive and opaque transfer functions. This article describes an alternative, single-stage approach to such decisions using forecasting methods. The example shown is for preseason fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Myers-Smith, Harden, Wilmking, Fuller, McGuire, Chapin
To determine the influence of fire and thermokarst in a boreal landscape, we investigated peat cores within and adjacent to a permafrost collapse feature on the Tanana River Floodplain of Interior Alaska. Radioisotope dating, diatom assemblages, plant macrofossils, charcoal…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Waldrop, Harden
Boreal forests contain significant quantities of soil carbon that may be oxidized to CO2 given future increases in climate warming and wildfire behavior. At the ecosystem scale, decomposition and heterotrophic respiration are strongly controlled by temperature and moisture, but…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES