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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fischer
Outlines a procedure for fire management planning for parks; wilderness areas; and other wild, natural, or essentially undeveloped areas. Discusses background and philosophy of wilderness fire management, planning concepts, planning elements, and planning methods.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donoghue, Paananen
Presents an overview of the American legal system; describes the relations and interactions between the Forest Service and legal system components and processes; discusses how individuals enter, move through, and leave the legal system; and describes the current status of Forest…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eza, McMinn, Dress
ANNOTATION: The Wood Residue Distribution Simulator (WORDS) attempts to find a least-cost allocation of residues from local sources of supply to local sources of demand, given the cost of the materials, their distribution, and the distribution of demand. The results are useful…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reed
The effects of the risk of fire or other unpredictable catastrophe on the optimal rotation period of a forest stand are investigated. It is demonstrated that when fires occur in a time-independent Poisson process, and cause total destruction, the policy effect of the fire risk…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Euler
Fire is portrayed as both a natural and an inescapable fact of life in North American forests and the adaptability of the forest environment to periodic fire is discussed. The effect of fire on wildlife habitat and patterns, and the role of fire in regulating biotic productivity…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Becker, Phillips, Keller
Pyrolysis of white pine wood has been studied in thin samples (1.6 mm thick slabs) exposed in an oven at 199-365 degrees C and in thick samples (8-50 mm diam branch segments) exposed in a wind tunnel at 365-525 degrees C and 3-18 m/s wind speed. In the limit case of sufficiently…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Becker, Phillips
In a previous study, single sticks of dry white pine 8-50 mm diam were exposed in a high-termperature wind tunnel providing effective wind speeds of 3-18 m/s. The working section wall temperature and gas temperature were equal, 357-857 degrees C. Several regimes of behavior were…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
Changes in the small mammal community in recently logged upland Black Spruce (Picea mariana) and mixedwood stands near Manitouwadge, Ontario, were documented for two to three years after a light fire in early summer and after a severe fire in late summer. Populations on the two…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Becker, Phillips
In the previous study, single sticks of dry white pine 8-50 mm diam. were exposed in a high-temperature and the gas temperature were equal, 357-857 C. Several regimes of behavior were perceived, among them a regime typically occurring at tempertaures above 500 C in which fully…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
To sum up, policy, strategy, personnel and equipment employed to suppress forest and range fires has changed dramatically over the past 70-year history of the Forest Service. Most of this change has come during the past 25 years, with the establishment of research laboratories…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
González-Cabán
Costs of mopping up wildfires have been difficult to estimate because data are not recorded in a way conducive to separate total fire cost into components such as personnel and equipment or mobilization and demobilization of crews. To estimate costs, 25 National Forests in three…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Holsten, Vandre
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Holsten
Pheromone baited traps and trap trees attracted an aggregate of 29 scolytid species associated with white spruce in three localities in Alaska. Species diversity was higher in Fairbanks than in the Brooks Range or the Kenai Peninsula. Scolytids were found inhabiting all bark-…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murphy, Kessel, Vining
A study of duck habitat use patterns and limnology in eastern interior Alaska revealed that ponds hydrologically connected to a creek system had greater use by ducks and higher levels of most nutrients and ions that those hydrologically isolated from a system. Phosphate level…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oswald, Senyk, Brown
Vegetation analysis, classification, and mapping are being conducted in Yukon Territory for the primary objectives of determining productivity of forests, to elucidate successional sequences, to provide data for wildlife habitat evaluations, and to provide baseline data for…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larson
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Juday
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Helm, Collins, McKendrick
Vegetation associated with various successional stages was studied on the Susitna River floodplain, southcentral Alaska, during 1981 summer. The objective of the study was to identify the vegetation successional sequence(s) and to approximate a time frame for these stages.…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vanderlinden
From the introduction: 'The transition in philosophy from wildfire control to wildfire management, from total protection of resources from fire to integration of fire as a tool to accomplish land and resource management objectives, has only recently taken place. Fire is…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephenson
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sopuck, Vernam
Notes (Do Not Cite): Moose distribuation was determined by vegetation and topography. Habitats greater than 300 m elevation were used significantly more than expected. Surveys were conducted in February and March. Moose used riparian areas and Salcha burn (15 yrs old).
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Singh
Biomass data obtained from 336 trees representing six major species of the Northwest Territories were used to derive regression equations for estimating ovendry biomass for stem and nonstem components. The predictor variables were the diameter at breast height outside bark and…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norum, Miller
Methods and procedures are given for collecting and processing living and dead plant materials for the purpose of determining their water content. Wildland fuels in Alaska are emphasized, but the methodology is applicable elsewhere. Guides are given for determining the number…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, Weixelman
Hardwood moose browse production was measured in five prescribed burn units and two wildfire sites and was compared with production in adjacent control sites. Production of moose browse averaged 41.1 kg/ha in the control units and 71.8 kg/ha in the nonslashed burn units…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES