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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Holsten
The spruce bark beetle Denaroctonus rutipennis activity levels in sc Alaska have increased to nearly a million acres of 'active' infestation. There have been many questions about the fire danger associated with the different phases of the spruce bark beetle's attack on a forest…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, Harris
Some 680 citations from literature treating Chamaecyparis nootkatensis are listed alphabetically by author in this bibliography. Most citations are followed by a short summary. A subject index is included.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Drury, Wilmore
From objectives: 'To track forest floor moisture over the course of the 1997 fire season in several forest types and geographic locations. Relate these observed moisture predictions obtained using the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System models. Identify thresholds of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Collins
Willow treatments within exclosures in Tyone Creek and Oshetna River drainages were clipped at 30, 60, and 90 percent to simulate light, medium, and heavy rates of utilizations by moose. Diameter, length, and weight characteristics of feltleaf willow were determined outside…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This paper provides action plans for the following issues with regard to the spruce beetle-impacted forests of southcentral Alaska: 1) fire hazard/fuels buildup; 2) forest resource inventory; 3) reforestation; 4) provide incentives to develop a viable forest industry; 5) protect…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
This report explains how the potential for fire hazard increases as a result of spruce bark beetle infestations. Changes in cover type and forest structure as a result of bark beetle-induced tree mortality are discussed.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This brochure discusses what the Alaskan homeowner can do to help prevent a spruce beetle infestation in their trees and how to reduce fire hazard if they live in a forested area.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oechel, Callaghan, Gilmanov, Holten, Maxwell, Molau, Sveinbjörnsson
Global warming is likely to have the greatest impact at high latitudes, making the Arctic an important region both for detecting global climate change and for studying its effects on terrestrial ecosystems. The chapters in this volume address current and anticipated impacts of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This KCFAST User's Guide is designed to help you access and use the Kansas City Fire Access Software (KCFAST).
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Saveland
The wildland-urban interface (W-UI) refers to residential areas surrounded by or adjacent to wildland areas. In recent years, significant W-UI residential fire losses have occurred nationwide in the United States that have focused attention on the principal W-UI problem - losses…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dubois, Stephenson
Plains bison were transplanted from Montana to Alaska in 1928 to establish the Delta bison herd. The initial herd increased steadily and a hunting season was first established in 1950. Fall population size has ranged from 356 to 496 since 1983. Bison began relying on…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chowns, Gates, Lepine
Semi-open prairie preferred by wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) diminishes as vegetation succession progresses from meadow to shrubland and forest. Prescribed burning has been adopted to renew habitat in the Hook Lake and Mackenzie bison ranges in the Northwest Territories (…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oechel, Vourlitis
The concentration of radiatively active gases such as CO2 and CH4 have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Atmospheric CO2 has increased from the preindustrial level of 270 ppm to the current level of 355 ppm, and is expected to double over…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Novakov, Cachier, Clark, Gaudichet, Macko, Masclet
Biomass burning, one of the most important global sources of particulate matter, produces both airborne particles that may influence global and regional climate, and particles incorporated into sediments that provide records of past local, regional, and global impacts of biomass…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gilmanov
The primary productivity of an ecosystem, as measured by either the rate of gross photosynthesis of the photoautotrophs (called Gross Primary Productivity, GPP) or the rate of net photosynthesis of the autotrophs (as equal to the gross photosynthesis minus respiration, called…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stoffyn-Egli, Potter, Leonard, Pocklington
Combustion of fossil fuel and vegetation produces large quantities of black canbon particles (BCP) which are dispersed by winds over large areas. Once deposited in the sediment, BCP constitute an historic record of anthropogenic activities and wildfires. For BCP to be…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schindler, Curtis, Bayley, Parker, Beaty, Stainton
During 20 years of climatic warming, drought and increased forest firesbetween 1970 and 1990, DOC concentrations declined by 15--25%in lakesof the Experimental Lakes Area, northwestern Ontario, allowing increasedpenetration of both UV and photosynthetically-active radiation (PAR…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, French
A wide range of techniques are being developed to map vegetation cover types using multi-date imagery from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. To date, these techniques do not account for severe constraints which exist for the world's boreal forest. Using composite…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gorshkov, Bakkal, Stavrova
The effects of potential climatic warming on the relaxation (ability to return to the initial intact state after disturbance) of boreal pine (Pinus sylvestris) communities was studied by comparing the recovery of the forest floor after fire in 2 geographically different regions…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dodds
Presents the results of a 3-year study. Both species feed extensively on herbaceous plants in summer, and depend on woody plants in winter; they browse most intensively up to a height of 6 ft. and to a high degree of intensity on the species selected. Moose feed most heavily on…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DesRochers, Gagnon
Black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) develops an adventitious root system along the base of the stem. The development of such adventitious roots, coupled with the buildup of the forest floor with time, means that the root collar of mature trees is located under these…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Groot, Thomas, Wein
[Species descriptions for Betula nana and Betula glandulosa, including fire effects.]
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Degrandpré, Bergeron
We investigated the response of boreal understory communities to gap formation in order to evaluate the relationship between community stability and changes in community composition. We described the early changes in understory species composition after gap formation and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES