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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Characteristics of over 50 tundra fires, located primarily in the western Arctic, are summarized. In general, only recent records were available and the numbers of fires were closely related to the accessibility of the area. Most of them covered areas of less than one square…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Cleve, Oliver
Yearly applications of N, P, and K fertilizer for a 6-year period to a young, postfire aspen forest, resulted in substantial increases in tree growth primarily in response to nitrogen. The main effect of N was to increase, by at least a factor of two, the stand leaf area index,…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stednick, Tripp, McDonald
Stream water samples and soil samples were analyzed to determine the effects of slash burning on soil and water resources in the coastal hemlock-spruce (Tsuga heterophylla, Picea sitchensis) forests of southeastern Alaska. A comparison of water samples from above and below the…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Richardson, Holliday
Fifteen months after an intense forest fire in Manitoba, the fauna of carabid beetles in burnt and unburnt sites was sampled using pitfall traps to detect the indirect effects of fire on carabids caused by habitat change. Traps were installed in burnt and unburnt sites in which…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nichols
From palynological studies it appears that northernmost dwarf spruces of the tundra and parts of the forest-tundra boundary may be relicts from times of prior warmth, and if felled might not regenerate. This disequilibrium may help explain the partial incongruence of modern…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carroll, Bliss
Open woodland forests dominated by Pinus banksiana occur on sandy soils in northeastern Alberta and northwestern Saskatchewan and are generally even-aged and uniform in height. Ordination techniques were used to divide the stands (n = 38) into the following communities: Pinus…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
Thaw depths and soil temperatures are compared for three adjacent sites in interior Alaska: an unburned stand of black spruce/feathermoss-Cladonia type; an adjacent stand, originally of the same type, burned in 1971; and a fireline between the two in which all of the vegetation…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
In 1931 Herbert L. Stoddard, the Dean of Game Management in his classic investigation of the Bobwhite Quail stated: 'While an immediate and direct effect of burning is, of course always apparent, the general effect of long-continued annual or irregular but frequent burning upon…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Controls over regeneration of tundra graminoids in a natural and man-disturbed site in arctic Alaska
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Mead
Total aboveground woody biomass of trees on forest land that can produce 1.4 cubic meters per hectare per year of industrial wood in Alaska is 1.33 billion metric tons green weight. The estimated energy value of the standing woody biomass is 1.9 x 1015 Btu's. Statewide tables of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolff
Notes (Do Not Cite): The point-center-quarter and Shafer twig-count methods were used to estimate availabaility of hardwood browse and consumption by moose on the Tanana River flood plain near Fairbanks. In 8- and 15- year -old stands, respectively, 38 and 113 kg/ha of…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve
From 'purpose' section: 'The principal objective of research conducted by the Forest Soils Laboratory is to provide information which will aid in understanding selected aspects of tree growth and forest development in the unique environment encountered in subarctic Alaska.…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norum
The current fire behavior system, when properly adjusted, accurately predicts forward rate of spread and flame length of wildfires in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) forests in Alaska. After fire behavior was observed and quantified, adjustment factors were…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morrissey
The feasibility of using Landsat digital data in conjunction with topographic data to delineate commercial forests by stand size and crown closure was tested in the Tanana R. basin. A modified clustering approach using 2 Landsat dates to generate an initial forest type…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LaPerriere
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knapman
In Interior Alaska, firelines are often constructed to help control and contain wildfires. In the early 1960's and early 1970's, the firelines were built, as in the western states, by tractors with bulldozer blades that scraped off the organic mat, knocked down trees, and pushed…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kershaw
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haugen, Slaughter, Howe, Dingman
The purpose of this report is to further our understanding of rainfall-runoff relationships in the Alaskan Subarctic by examining the eleven-year data record from the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed. Precipitation-runoff characteristics, such as recessions, streamflow…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
One hundred thirty forest stands ranging in age from 1 month postfire to 200 years were sampled and described by successional series and developmental stage. Patterns of change in the two successional series are described. In addition, 12 mature forest communities are described…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis, Valkenburg, Boertje
During 1978-81, 38 male and 55 female caribou (Rangifer tarandus) were successfully radio-collared in the range of the WAH and monitored on a year-round basis for 322 and 736 collar-months, respectively. Males were relocated 83 times and females 279 times. Collared males died or…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finklin
A method is described for delineating fire climate zones, using a multiple regression relationship between a fire danger parameter and simple climatic averages. In this example, climatic averages were rainfall and daily max. temp. for the May-Aug. fire season. Fire danger was…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS