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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alden
Description not entered.
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cooper
The Arrigetch Peaks region of Alaska's Brooks Range combines tremendous visitor appeal for recreation purposes and ecological diversity. Critical issues for wilderness managers include dynamics of palsas and treeline, disturbance to Cladonia lichen dominated stands and their…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
[from the text] Fire is an integral part of the forest ecology of the taiga of interior Alaska. For years people have observed the immediate and general impacts of fire on vegetation. Few have documented their observations of these fires, and even fewer have observed a given…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boertje, Davis, Valkenburg
Analysis of caribou fecal samples from 4 distinct caribou wintering areas revealed expected relative percentage use of lichens among the areas. Additional uses of fecal analysis include identification of most major plant groups in the diet, detection of trends in condition in…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee, Huff
Goals for vegetation management in wilderness areas have been difficult to define. Short return interval, low-intensity fire regimes offer the most promise for structurally oriented vegetation management goals, although there are some long-return interval or high-intensity fire…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Juday
An account of the progress and control of a fire started on 29 May 1983 following an unusually dry and mild early spring, and lasting 18 days covering nearly 10,000 acres of forest and involving losses of over $5 million. Measures included the use of bulldozed control lines…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Van Wagner
The objective of this paper is to explain the distributions, assumptions, interpretations, and relationships of the two compatible, stochastic models of fire history: the negative exponential and the Weibull. For each model the 'fire interval' and 'time-since-fire' distributions…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hard
White spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stands were examined in 1982 to determine the relationship of tree growth to spruce beetle attack in an active spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby)) infestation on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. Conservative statistical…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gasaway, Dubois
The initial response of seven radio-collared Moose (Alces alces) to wildfire was investigated to determine if Moose were displaced from the burned portion of their home ranges. Home ranges of these Moose overlapped a 500-km2 fire that burned from 3 May-20 June 1980 in interior…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foster
(1) The pattern of post-fire vegetation development in Picea mariana (black spruce)-Pleurozium forests in south-eastern Labrador, Canada, is evaluated using palaeoecological methods and vegetation analysis of extant stands. (2) Macrofossil analysis of more humus profiles in…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fetcher
The effect of removal of moss and low-growing shrubs on the growth of the tussock-forming cotton sedge Eriophorum vaginatum was studied at Eagle Creek in central Alaska. Shrubs and/or moss were removed from heavily infested tussocks with greater or lesser amounts of self-shading…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fancy, White
The rate of energy expenditure by caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) digging in snow for lichens was determined by heart rate telemetry and an analysis of cratering mechanics. Based on significant linear relationship between energy expenditure and heart rate, the mean cost per…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cogbill
Analyses of species composition and tree increment cores from 145 stands in central Quebec were used to study the forest history and stand dynamics. Windspread fires, possibly synchronous, burned across central Quebec in at least 3 periods of record (1661-1663, 1779-1791 and…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bangs, Duff, Bailey
Two large burns, one in 1947 (125,000 ha) and another in 1969 (35,000 ha), produced excellent moose (Alces alces) habitat believed responsible for up to 6.6 moose/kilometers squared on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. The fire in 1969 burned during much hotter and…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Meter, George, Johnson
The report describes chemical analysis procedures developed and/or in use at the lntermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory to determine the quantitative composition of fire retardant mixtures. These mixtures contain inorganic salts, coloring agents, and inhibitors of spoilage and…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dormaar, Schaber
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS