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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 1 - 25 of 35
Chapin, Van Cleve
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cayford
In the fall of 1955 a forest fire burned approximately 12,000 acres of merchantable and young growth jack pine on the Sandilands Forest Reserve in southeastern Manitoba. A fact-finding observational study was carried out between 1956 and 1961 to determine the amount and…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
The physical properties of bark are virtually uninvestigated, and the resulting lack of knowledge has relegated bark to the role of residue. Significant among these properties are thermal characteristics, which are basic to the use of bark as thermal insulation. This paper…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black
The results of a 9-year rotational burning study on blueberry fields at the Experimental Project Farm, Alliston, Prince Edward Island, indicated that total fruit production was greater from burning every second year than from every third year. Both burning treatments produced…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tisdale, Hironaka
The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of literature on the vegetation of the sagebrush region of North America. Since the objective is to document the current status of knowledge of sagebrush vegetation, emphasis has been placed on thorough coverage of…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marty, Barney
A guidebook has been developed to assist the fire managers and planners in estimating actual economic costs, losses, and benefits resulting from fire management activities. This guidebook was developed and tested on 12 National Forests during the 1977-79 period. The procedures…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This report contains an annotated bibliography of the effects of fire, logging, grazing, and spraying on small mammals and their predators. Each citation lists keywords. A brief summary of the general effects of fire on some of the more common small mammals in western coniferous…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Niering
Prescribed burning is extensively used in wildlife, forest, and range management, and in maintaining biotic diversity. Burning tends to increase food and/or favourable habitat conditions for many upland game and waterfowl species. Prescribed burning in forest management is used…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day, Harvey
The mixedwood forest is defined as a successional mosaic of stratified mixed stands of disturbance (mainly wildfire) origin. The effect of long-term exclusion of fire is discussed. A plea is made for a 'let-burn' policy in parks and improved silviculture for maintaining the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
The negative exponential and Wiebull distributions were used to estimate stand survivorship curves for forested sites in the Porcupine River drainage of interior Alaska. The survivorship curve of Picea glauca (Moench) Voss sites was best described by a Wiebull function, while…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff, Lidicker
1. In central Alaska, Taiga Voles live in communal groups of five to ten individuals (mean = 7.1) for eight months of the year. During this winter period, they share a common stored food cache. 2. Evidence from both field monitoring of nest temperatures and laboratory studies…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Oliver, Van Cleve
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliver
Large-scale, man-created or natural disturbances play a major role in determining forest structure and species composition in many areas of North America and probably other temperate and tropical forests. Studies suggest a single group of species is not predestined to inhabit an…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Swanson
Fire, geomorphic processes, and landforms interact to determine natural patterns of ecosystems over landscapes. Fire alters vegetation and soil properties which change soil and sediment movement through watersheds. Landforms affect fire behavior and form firebreaks which…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Olson
A theory of ecosystem succession relates the continuum of fire frequency and intensities to mean annual carbon burning in major ecosystems of the world. Low fire frequency and release of C are contrasted with combinations of (1) low frequency, high release, (2) high frequency…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Komarek
Description not entered.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holling
Forest fire systems are compared to the balsam/spruce budworm system. Management of both has been successful in the short term in reducing the probability of fire or preventing sudden and extensive mortality of balsam. But both have resulted in conditions highly vulnerable to…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wilton
Seed traps were arranged under a fire-killed 60 year Picea mariana stand immediately after the fire, and seed collections taken at intervals for 60 days. Much seed was released in the first 10 days, but less than half the natural seedfall occurred during the first 60 days.…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Furniss, Yarger, Ward
Traps baited with Seudenol + a-pinene caught 87 percent more eastern larch beetles, Dendroctonus simplex LeConte, than did tamarack logs infested with females. Male beetles responded to the synthetic attractant in greater numbers than females. Male beetles were not attracted to…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Barney
Forest fire statistical records to 1979 are given for Newfoundland (from 1949), Quebec (1924), Ontario (1917), Manitoba (1918), Saskatchewan (1918), Alberta (1918), Northwest Territories (1946), Yukon (1950), Alaska (1940), Sweden (1946) and Finland (1952). Figures for fire…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lotan, Alexander, Arno, French, Langdon, Loomis, Norum, Rothermel, Schmidt, van Wagtendonk
The coniferous forests of the 6 major areas of the USA (North Pacific maritime forests; Forests of the Rocky Mountain west; Sierra coniferous forests; Northern boreal forests of Alaska; Southern pine forests; and Northeastern coniferous forests) are described under the following…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES