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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Douglas
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Doerr, Keith, Rusch
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
DeLeonardis
The taiga forest of interior Alaska lies within a broad zone of discontinuous permafrost. Although the gross effects of wildfire on vegetation and wildlife are fairly well known and understood, there is still a lack of knowledge on the effects of fire on interior soils and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Comiskey
In 1967, the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska began producing isoline maps of buildup index by hand on a daily basis. These maps proved to be operationally valuable. In 1969, it was proposed that the isoline maps and other fire-danger ratings be produced by machine. By the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bolstad
Severe erosion has resulted in the past from bulldozer-constructed firelines in permafrost terrain. In an attempt to reduce erosion and gullying, several water-barring techniques and seeding treatments were tested on permafrost and nonpermafrost catlines. Standard water bars and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bliss, Wein
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
This paper discusses some of the historical aspects of wildfires in interior Alaska with particular reference to the period from 1940 to the present. Several speculations are made on the basis of recent records relative to fire impact or effects. The need to obtain quantitative…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bliss, Wein
Data are presented on several current studies being conducted in the Mackenzie Delta and the Arctic Archipelago in relation to oil and gas exploration. Tundra fires destroy most of the aboveground plant cover and result in significant increases in depth of the active layer. Fire…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kershaw, Rouse
The water relations of Cladonia alpestris in spruce-lichen woodland in northern Ontario is described. The rate of drying of the lichen canopy was measured by resistance grids inserted into the canopy and monitored during the drying cycle. The effects of dew were measured in a…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hatler
Black bears in the interior of Alaska emerging from winter dens in early May spend much of the first three months of their annual active season in riverbottom and other lowland situations where the shoots and new leaves of green vegetation, especially Equisetum spp. Compose the…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Oil development, tourism, and expanding human populations, are bringing about increased pressures on large mammals in the Arctic and Subarctic. Management of marine mammals requires close international cooperation, and recent protection offered to the Polar Bear on a…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg
Numerical simulation of dead fuel behavior under different climatological regimes has quantified three universal characteristics of fuels: (1) response of the fuel to climatological moisture-induced stress; (2) response of the outer layers of the fuel to both standard drying…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Forsythe, Loucks
This study develops a data-transformation method useful in correlating species importance with habitat factors. The relative basal area of six major tree species is examined in relation to data on eight environmental factors. A parabola transformation makes the dome-shaped…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cooper
Describes 'cloud-seeding' operations to induce precipitation from convective clouds on or near advancing fires in Alaska in June-July 1971, and attempts an assessment of the results. Rain associated with the operations fell on or near a number of fires, but there was no…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bliss, Wein
Data are presented on several current studies being conducted in the Mackenzie Delta and the Arctic Archipelago in relation to oil and gas exploration. Tundra fires destroy most of the aboveground plant cover and result in significant increases in depth of the active layer.…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud
The abundance of forage for caribou (Rangifer tarandus), mainly evergreen shrubs and terrestrial lichens, was measured at 22 locations in Newfoundland. Study areas were selected to represent plant successional stages following fires on former forest sites and in lichen woodlands…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marks, Taylor
From the text... 'In an experimental plot established by the Nature Conservancy in 1957 to follow long-term effects of sheep grazing and rotational burning on Calluneto-Eriophoretum, a study of the response of R. chamaemorus to these treatments was initiated in 1969 (Taylor…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the Conclusion ... 'An ecological review on air pollution as a whole, and in particular the relationship of control burning to such possible pollution warrants the following conclusions: (1) In spite of the tremendous amounts of pollutant materials released into the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans, Allen
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster, Gessel
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fredriksen
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
George, Susott
Differential thermal, thermogravimetric, and derivative thermogravimetric analyses were used to study the effects of two important fire retardant chemicals-ammonium phosphate and ammonium sulfate-on the pyrolysis and combustion of cellulose. To aid in the interpretation of…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wells
[from the text] Understanding the effects of prescribed burning on soil properties is important in forestry applications. If burning has no detrimental effect on soil, it can be used for fuel reduction and hardwood control. However, if burning does have an adverse influence on…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Cleve
This study reports the first 2 years' results of a thinning and fertilization study conducted in a 70-year-old white spruce forest near Fairbanks, Alaska. A 2.7-fold increase in tree diameter growth during this period was attributed to improved soil moisture, temperature, and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS