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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Catchpole, de Mestre, Gill
The Byram index of fire intensity is extended from the head of a fire to include its total perimeter. Variation in intensity is plotted against different variables for an elliptical fire front; for one of these variables (the normal angle) this plot is shown to apply to an…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Frear
[Excerpt] The Alaska yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) is dying, and no one knows why. Even worse, a new generation of trees is not developing. Seedlings are rare in many of these dying stands. The future looks discouraging for this interesting and valuable tree.…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
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
Foote
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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
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
Werner
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Year: 1982
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
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
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
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
Andrews, Rothermel
The fire characteristics chart is proposed as a graphical method of presenting two primary characteristics of fire behavior: spread rate and intensity. Its primary use is communicating and interpreting either site-specific predictions of fire behavior or National Fire-Danger…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Anderson
This report presents photographic examples, tabulations, and a similarity chart to assist fire behavior officers, fuel management specialists, and other field personnel in selecting a fuel model appropriate for a specific field situation. Proper selection of a fuel model is a…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Doerr
Some concerns for managing moose (Alces alces andersoni) habitat in areas of intensive timber harvesting in the moist, temperate western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)-Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) biome are discussed. Results of field studies on two moose populations on the…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alaback
Sitka spruce-western hemlock forests originating from windthrow, logging, or fire display characteristic developmental patterns over time in southeast Alaska. The early stages are the most dynamic, and the most productive for the understory. Understory biomass and production…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Chapter 8: Fields of fire [pp. 462-529] covers wildland fire research and the fire histories of Alaska and the southwest.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
From the text... 'Fused inorganic tubes caused by lightning strokes to the ground, called fulgurites, are abundant in many portions of the earth. Ample evidence of fossil fires, called fusain, lies buried in the coal beds of all the coal-forming periods known to geology. For…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein
Continental populations of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) usually winter in the northern taiga. Fire is a natural feature of the ecology of the taiga but its effect on the winter range of caribou has been the subject of conflicting reports in the literature. Lichens, which are an…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rowell, Hajny, Young
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS