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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Keiter
Natural ecosystem management means maintaining the natural integrity and pristine character of 'preserved' park and wilderness lands. But most large national parks and wilderness areas are bordered by other public lands, which may be open to consumptive development activities,…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Agee
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
This report represents a compilation and classification of nearly all the available written information on the CFFDRS. Plans call for a 20-year (1969-1988) annotated bibliography of CFFDRS literature to be issued as a CFS Forestry Technical Report in 1989. The present…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Smith, Mann
From the text ... 'An overview of the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System has been prepared by Lawson et al. (1985). The FBP System includes the provision for calculating the size and shape of free-burning, wild-driven fires originating from a single ignition…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Fischer
The advent of 'fire management' has increased the need to understand and predict fire effects on vegetation. Such prediction is greatly complicated by the many factors that influence fire characteristics and plant response. Nevertheless, a few approaches have been developed to…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Willits, Sampson
Data on lumber, chip and sawdust vol. recovery and lumber value were analysed for live and fire-killed Picea glauca trees from an experimental forest area near Fairbanks. The dead trees were sampled either 2 yr or 3 yr after the fire in order to evaluate the effects of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
During a prescribed-burning experiment in 80-year-old Pinus resinosa and P. strobus, temperatures below the duff surface and in the soil were measured with temperature-sensitive paints. The results were difficult to interpret, but average temperature gradients were calculated.…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Telfer
Moose (Alces alces shirasi) numbers and use of habitat were studied on the Streeter Basin Experimental Watershed in the montane aspen zone of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, between 1969 and 1983. Habitat use was measured by pellet counts and directs…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Talbot, Markon
A Landsat-derived vegetation map was prepared for Innoko National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge lies within the northern boreal subzone of northwestern central Alaska. Six major vegetation classes and 21 subclasses were recognized: forest (closed needleleaf, open needleleaf,…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quintilio, Murphy, Woodard
Initial attack hotspotting rates are presented for a series of test burns in the boreal forest of northern Alberta in 1986/87. Three to six fire crew members were accompanied by a helicopter equipped with a bucket. A comparison was made with continuous fire line production rates…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
Two exclosures esablished during the 1920's were reexamined in 1965. In the dwarf shrub-lichen type browse species suppressed recovery of lichens. Full recovery of lichens had not occurred within 33 years. In several disturbed quadrats in the Dryas field-field type, recovery…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
A herd of approximately 500 reindeer was herded over a non-utilized portion of a large Eriophorum-Carex-dwarf shrub meadow near Nome, Alaska during both moist and dry conditions. After one summer of use on approximately 17 sections by the reindeer, 68% of the lichens were…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adamczewski, Gates, Soutar, Hudson
The insular population of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) on Coats Island, Northwest Territories, is ultimately limited by winter food resources. This study was undertaken to assess forage biomass available during summer and to determine the effects of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suffling
Historical data for NW Ontario were used to determine relations between catastrophic (stand replacing) fires and landscape diversity in the boreal forest. Results showed that landscape diversity was greatest with intermediate amounts of fire disturbance. Any change of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rowe
Reviews the literature on some aspects of the fire ecology of the Spruces, chiefly Picea glauca, in the boreal forest area of the north-west, where fire is an integral part of the environment and Spruces are frequently early invaders of burnt sites.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyon, Pengelly
Dr. Behan has suggested that the minerals removed in timber harvest and otherwise lost might be replaced by direct fertilization which would also increase tree growth. There are some unanswered questions in this area that probably need clarification, It has been shown, for…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Christiansen
[This is not the abstract; do not cite.] As part of a broader study to examine interactions between fire and spruce-lichen woodlands, dendrochronological samples, including 13 fire scars and 57 stand-origin dates, were collected across a small study area located in spruce-lichen…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bonan
Description not entered.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Mead
Equations are presented for estimating the twig, foliage, and combined biomass for 58 plant species in interior Alaska. The equations can be used for estimating biomass from percentage of foliar cover of 10-centimeter layers in a vertical profile from 0 to 6 meters. Few…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Viereck, Dyrness
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lotspeich, Mueller, Frey
From objectives (page 13): 'Objectives of the study were: (1) to develop sufficient understanding of the effects of forest fires on water quality of Alaskan streams so that it may be possible to make rational decisions for allocating manpower and funds for controlling specific…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Linton, Safranyik
Published literature dealing with the taxonomy, biology, ecology and management of the spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufpennis (Kirby), has been briefly annotated. This bibliography contains 311 references, with author and subject indexes. Its purpose is to provide easy access to…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kirby, Lewis, Sexson
This biological report fills two important voids in the libraries of many wildlife biologists- an annotated bibliography on fire in north America wetland ecosystems and a subject index of all fire-related literature that has appeared in Wildlife Review.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fahnestock
This is an attempt to characterize forest fire fuels in a new way. The immediate purpose is to provide means for recognizing and tentatively evaluating, in the field, the fire spread potential and the crowning potential of fuels on the basis of readily observed characteristics…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Curtis
This report describes the results of an aerial detection survey flown over portions of the Kenai National Moose Refuge and adjacent State and private lands to monitor a previously reported infestation of spruce beetle that has been active for several years and to obtain an up to…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES