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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Komarek
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoffman
Most of the existing Alaskan State and National Parks were established to provide for human enjoyment of the natural features and to preserve the area in its natural condition. The natural condition is identified as that occurring before the effects of white man's influence…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Heinselman
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002(https://www.frames.gov/rcs/18000/18093.html)]The primeval conifer forests of North America, with their associated deciduous components, were largely fire-dependent ecosystems. Fire was a key environmental factor in controlling…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heginbottom
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
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
Hard
Laboratory feeding tests indicate that hemlock sawfly populations are partially regulated by food quality. Semi-starvation of late-instar larvae, due to feeding on current year's foliage rather than on a normal diet of previous year's foliage, caused a 65% reduction in survival…
Year: 1971
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
Barney
This paper presents selected interior Alaska forest and range wildfire statistics for the period 1966-69. Comparisons are made with the decade 1956-65 and the 30-year period 1940-1969, which are essentially the total recorded statistical history on wildfires available for…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Geist
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hakala, Seemel, Richey, Kurtz
During summer 1969, fires burned 86,000 acres of the Kenai National Moose Range, south-central Alaska; two fires accounted for 99 percent of the burned area. Suppression efforts involved nearly 5,000 men; 135 miles of catline were constructed, and 822,000 gallons of retardant…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flieger
[from the text] The long-time role of fire in the forests of eastern Canada is masked, I believe, by the history of Canadian forest management in the exploitive years since 1920. There is now more forest land occupied by Industry -- mainly the Pulp and Paper Industry -- than…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Douglas
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Doerr, Keith, Rusch
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Year: 1971
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