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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wein, Bliss
The arctic cotton grass (Eriphorum vaginatum ssp. spissum) tussock community is susceptible to fire even though it has a relatively small aboveground standing crop and the peaty substrate is wet even in years of low precipitation. While burns can be severe enough to kill all…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viereck
The taiga of Alaska consists of a vegetation mosaic resulting primarily from past wildfires. Today, both lightning- and man-caused wildfires burn an average of 400,000 hectares annually, creating vast areas of successional ecosystems. However, although the number of reported…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve
Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizers were applied to 15-year-old quaking aspen developing on a burned site in interior Alaska. After two years of nutrient application, maximum tip, diameter, and basal area growth averaged 27.1 cm, 0.72 cm, and 2.9 cm per tree,…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Whittle, Duchesne, Needham
Regeneration of plant communities in post-disturbance boreal and sub-boreal ecosystems is discussed with particular reference to current knowledge of buried seeds (soil seed banks) and vegetative propagation, and the importance of the fire regime on plant regeneration. Fire…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor
The line intersect method is usually the most efficient means of assessing the amount of downed woody debris on a site, though fixed-area plots are still used where information on the volume of individual logs and stumps is required. Several standard line intersect sampling…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sims, Buckner
Clear felling followed by prescribed burning was recently introduced into Manitoba as a standard forestry practice for site preparation. Though the total population of small mammals was lower immediately after burning, Peromyscus maniculatus re-established rapidly to form 84% of…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shafi, Yarranton
Areas of boreal forest in the clay belt of N. Ontario, burned at various dates from 0 to 57 years ago, were examined. The range of vegetation present was plot-sampled in each area, and a simple test of heterogeneity, based on the number of significant correlations between…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saatchi, Rignot
Mapping forest cover types in the boreal ecosystem is important for understanding the processes governing the interaction of the surface with the atmosphere. In this paper, we report the results of the land-cover classification of the SAR (synthetic aperture radar) data acquired…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rowe, Scotter
The boreal forest in North America owes much of its floristic and faunistic diversity to periodic fires ignited by lightning and by man since he appeared on the scene. The indirect evidences of buring in vegetation and soils, and recent direct observations of fires, are reviewed…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wright, Heinselman
Contains an introductory paper by the editors, and, in addition to papers separately noticed [see the next three abstracts], the following: Fire in the virgin forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Minnesota (M.L. Heinselman, 99 ref.); The importance of fire as a natural…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ramberg
Describes satisfactory trials in Alaska of a system for the safe distribution of smoke grenades from helicopters (to ignite controlled fires along firelines, etc.).
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pruitt
The conservation of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou, in Manitoba) is discussed. Arboreal and forest floor lichens are major components of caribou diet in the boreal forests (taiga). The major threats to caribou habitat are wild fires and clear felling. Wild fires…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
This paper analyzes data from 339 large wildland fires that occurred in the Continental United States from 1971 through 1984. Each fire burned 1,000 acres (400 ha) or more. Each fire was associated with the nearest upper-air weather station and classified according to its season…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Johnson, Katnik
Knowledge of lynx (Lynx canadensis) use of burned areas is desirable to anticipate the effects of fire management in the taiga. During 1991 to 1994 we tested whether L. canadensis and snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) selectively used post-fire seres during winter in the Alaskan…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Packee
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nalder, Wein, Alexander, de Groot
Dead and downed woody fuels in forests are commonly estimated using the line intersect method, which requires appropriate values for specific gravity, piece tilt angle, and piece diameter. We present data for these variables for six commercially important tree species based on…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strang
A preliminary comparison of burned and unburned tracts in the northern boreal forest of the lower Mackenzie River valley indicates that, without periodic fires, trees will be eliminated and the climax vegetation will be a moss/lichen association. The implications for land…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Niemela
Logging has ecological effects on invertebrates in Fennoscandian boreal forest. Especially affected are species associated with micro-habitats of natural old-growth forest, such as coarse woody debris, large deciduous trees, and patches of wet swamp-forest. Furthermore, the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
In the taiga of Alaska, permafrost and vegetation are closely related. In areas underlain by permafrost, the nature of the vegetation is important in determining the thickness of the active layer. In a black spruce stand, the active layer is normally 30-60 cm thick. Flooding has…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roessler
The forests of Tanana River Basin in Interior Alaska have a history of disturbance. Four issues reflecting forest disturbance, important to include in current management strategies for these lands, were researched: (1) disturbance history of the Tanana Valley; (2) Alaska…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rees
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Pike, Alexander
The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior System is a systematic method for assessing wildland f1re behavior potential. The guide provides a simplified version of the system, presented in tabular format. It was prepared to assist staff in making first approximations of FBP system…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Saperstein
Plant cover and biomass data were collected on 4 permanent transects on Galena Mountain herd winter range in late summer 1994. Point intercept method was used to determine ground cover; preliminary results showed lichens comprised 39-56% of total ground cover. Point-intercept…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quinlan, Lehnhausen
From introduction: 'During bird surveys in the spring of 1995 Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) were observed in the silt blanket-floodway habitat of the Chena Lakes Flood Control Project (Quinlan and Lehnhausen 1995) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel have…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potkin
Forests in the vicinity of the Kenai Peninsula portion of the Chugach National Forest are of special ecological interest because of their transitional nature between coastal and interior forest types. The Continental Interior boreal forest and Maritime Pacific coast ecological…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES