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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Podur
Fire and weather archive data for the province of Ontario and Canada were investigated using spatial statistical and time series analysis methodologies. Spatial point pattern analysis was used to investigate spatial patterns of lightning-caused fire occurrence in Ontario.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wittwer
Aerial detection mapping is conducted annually to document the location and extent of active forest insect and disease damage. These surveys generally cover approximately 1/3 of the forested land in Alaska. Smoke from large wildfires in interior Alaska and inclement weather…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Secretaries Babbitt and Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year's severe fires, reduce the impacts of these wildland fires on rural communities, and ensure sufficient firefighting resources in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trummer
The purpose of the study was to determine the extent, patterns, and causes of stain and decay in even-aged unmanaged paper birch stands in mature and older age classes. This study also investigated whether site factors, age-class, and regional location affect pathogen incidence…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ross, Daterman, Boughton, Quigley
A spruce beetle outbreak of unprecedented size and intensity killed most of the spruce trees on millions of acres of forest land in south-central Alaska in the 1990s. The tree mortality is affecting every component of the ecosystem, including the socioeconomic culture dependent…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schultz
This paper reports on changes that occurred in forest composition and structure by following 45 fifth-acre plots established in 1982.
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McNay, Ver Hoef
We created and simulated a new sampling design to estimate wolf (Canis lupus) predation rates on ungulates during winter. Previous estimates of wolf predation rates were drawn from late autumn or early spring surveys, and consequently may be biased by seasonal variation in prey…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manies, Harden, Yoshikawa, Randerson
Relatively high rates of plant production coupled with low rates of decomposition allow boreal forests to store large amounts of carbon. Fire, the main disturbance of this ecosystem, also plays a key role in regulating this biome's C storage. All three of these factors are…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hourdequin
This reference list provides an overview of key literature relating to fire restoration and management in wilderness and similarly protected areas. This list, which centers on the United States, should be helpful to managers or researchers new to the topic, or to those seeking…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten, Hard
Data from 1999 and 2000 field studies regarding the dispersal flight and initial attack behavior of the spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis Kirby) are summarized. More dispersing beetles were trapped in flight near the middle to upper tree bole than the lower bole. There were…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Ottmar, Peterson, Core, Seamon
The National Wildfire Coordination Group's (NWCG) Fire Use Working Team has assumed overall responsibility for sponsoring the development and production of this revised Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed and Wildland Fire (the 'Guide'). The Mission Statement for the Fire Use…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duncan
[Highlighting research by Trish Wurtz and John Zasada] Only a small body of research addresses the impacts of timber harvesting in the boreal forest of Alaska. Two projects described here began in 1970 and 1980 to develop more reliable methods of regeneration white spruce --…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapeskie
See pages 36-38 where the author cites Theriault (1992) and Lewis (1982).
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carmody
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mason, Field, Yokelson, Kochivar, Tinsley, Ward, Hao
Oxygenated volatile organic species (oxygenates), including HCOOH, H2CO, CH3OH, HOCH2CHO (hydroxyacetaldehyde), CH3COOH, and C6H5OH, have recently been identified by Fourier transform infrared measurements as a significant component of the direct emissions from biomass…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marchand
When tundra vegetation remains free from fires and other disruptions, the long-lived sedges form large clumps that are often drier than the surrounding soil and eventually become colonized by lichens, mosses, willow shrubs, and alders. These invaders slowly crowd out their…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lumley, Gignac, Currah
Fallen logs of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) and white spruce (Picea glauca) at various stages of decomposition were sampled from undisturbed and 1-, 14-, and 28-year-old post-fire and post-harvest sites in northern Alberta, Canada, and studied for differences in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Sturgess
This study examined the role of logs, stumps, and root throws on the understorey composition of aspen (Populus tremuloides) dominated boreal forests. Measures of microsite coverage and suitability, and vascular plant composition and abundance were taken from 28-year-old wildfire…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Laberge, Payette, Pitre
Black spruce (Picea mariana) is the dominant tree species across the North American boreal forest. In the northernmost parts of its natural range, the species thrives in the form of scattered or aggregated stunted clones (krummholz) in winter-exposed subarctic and arctic sites.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kneeshaw
Boreal forest dynamics have been long characterized as being controlled by large-scale fire regimes. When fire cycles are short, trees are killed and recruited primarily due to these events. However, where fire cycles exceed the longevity of the trees, gap dynamics will shape…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krebs, Boutin, Boonstra
In this book we describe the Kluane Boreal Forest Ecosystem Project which operated from 1986 to 1996 in the southwestern Yukon. We begin by describing the area and its physical setting, and then describe the background of the project and the wisdom that had accumulated to 1986…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Miyanishi
From preface: 'Since the 1950s, the body of literature on fire behavior has been growing in journals of engineering, geophysics, meteorology, etc. Foresters and ecologists have not used much of this literature on the physical aspects of fire behavior to understand fire effects…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gagnon
In the Canadian Northeast (Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland), black spruce (Picea mariana) is the dominant species of tree in the boreal zone, where it forms large and often monospecific natural virgin stands. This spruce is present only in North America. The integration of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dennis, Miles
A consequence of past fire management practices in U. S. Forests is the excessive accumulation of fuel. In order to avoid severe and catastrophic fires, resource managers employ a number of treatments to diminish fuel loads. Alternative treatments include prescribed burns and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Awada
We studied white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) population dynamics in the mixedwood section of boreal forest in Saskatchewan, Canada, using 35 stands along a chronosequence ranging from less than one year to more than 200 years after fire. We determined the spatial pattern…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES