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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Irland
The choices in wildland ecosystem management are becoming more costly and controversial. Legal mandates, of which the Resources Planning Act (RPA) is the prime example, require the use of economic analysis in planning. Economics though often subject to abuse, offers a tool kit…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burch
Human ecology is the study of the relations between communities (groups or populations) and their respective environments. This approach employs a systems perspective of both society and nature; describes the interactions between social systems and ecosystems in terms of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson
Even though most North American ecosystems lack naturally regulated populations of large carnivores, these species continue to attract a disproportionate share of the attention of resource managers and the general public. This is consistent with the role of top carnivores in…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brubaker
Over the past two decades numerous paleoecological records have become available for describing past plant communities. They show that vegetation has changed on almost all temporal and spatial scales in response to natural environmental variation. Because species have responded…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keiter
Natural ecosystem management means maintaining the natural integrity and pristine character of 'preserved' park and wilderness lands. But most large national parks and wilderness areas are bordered by other public lands, which may be open to consumptive development activities,…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hankin, Sawhney
Recently, a method for determining moisture in soil using a microwave oven was described by Miller, Smith, and Biggar (1974). This procedure requires special beakers and, in some cases, long times for heating. We describe here a simplified method for soil moisture determination…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Agee
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
This report represents a compilation and classification of nearly all the available written information on the CFFDRS. Plans call for a 20-year (1969-1988) annotated bibliography of CFFDRS literature to be issued as a CFS Forestry Technical Report in 1989. The present…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Smith, Mann
From the text ... 'An overview of the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System has been prepared by Lawson et al. (1985). The FBP System includes the provision for calculating the size and shape of free-burning, wild-driven fires originating from a single ignition…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
Adapted from a paper presented at the Joint Rocky Mountain Fire Council and Intermountain Fire Research Council Meeting, Rangeland Management and Fire held November 1-3, 1977 at Casper, Wyoming.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Fischer
The advent of 'fire management' has increased the need to understand and predict fire effects on vegetation. Such prediction is greatly complicated by the many factors that influence fire characteristics and plant response. Nevertheless, a few approaches have been developed to…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parmeter
Dwarf mistletoes are markedly host specific, perennial, obligate parasites. The success of mistletoe populations is tied not only to the suitability of the environment, but also to the availability and conditions of the hosts they infect. Thus, the dynamics of forest stand…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wong
The atmospheric input of carbon dioxide from burning wood, in particular from forest fires in boreal and temperate regions resulting from both natural and man-made causes and predominantly from forest fires in tropical regions caused by shifting cultivation, is estimated to be 5…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff
Productivity and utilization of browsed and unbrowsed Scouler willow (Salix scoulerina) was measured in a 1971 burn and in an adjacent 70-year-old mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forest. Production of available willow browse in the burn increased from 8 kg/ha in 1973 to 22.6…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Willits, Sampson
Data on lumber, chip and sawdust vol. recovery and lumber value were analysed for live and fire-killed Picea glauca trees from an experimental forest area near Fairbanks. The dead trees were sampled either 2 yr or 3 yr after the fire in order to evaluate the effects of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tiedemann, Helvey, Anderson
During the first 3 years after a severe wildfire in 1970, maximum concentrations of nitrate-N (NO3-N) in stream water increased from prefire levels of <0.016 to 0.$6 mg/liter on a burned, unfertilized watershed and to 0.54 and 1.47 mg/liter on two watersheds that were burned…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Telfer
Moose (Alces alces shirasi) numbers and use of habitat were studied on the Streeter Basin Experimental Watershed in the montane aspen zone of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, between 1969 and 1983. Habitat use was measured by pellet counts and directs…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Talbot, Markon
A Landsat-derived vegetation map was prepared for Innoko National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge lies within the northern boreal subzone of northwestern central Alaska. Six major vegetation classes and 21 subclasses were recognized: forest (closed needleleaf, open needleleaf,…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, James
In a series of prescribed burns of low intensity and short duration in southern Ontario, wind speed, amount of fuel, and fuel moisture were important environmental controls of fire severity. A heterogenous pattern of burning, related to clumping in the vegetation and to a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rencz, Auclair
A study of 15 lichen woodlands in the subarctic of eastern Canada indicated a strong dominance by Picea mariana and Cladonia alpestris. Mean tree density was 556 trees per hectare. Over 75% of all tree stems were Picea mariana. Picea glauca and Larix laricina were only minor…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quintilio, Murphy, Woodard
Initial attack hotspotting rates are presented for a series of test burns in the boreal forest of northern Alberta in 1986/87. Three to six fire crew members were accompanied by a helicopter equipped with a bucket. A comparison was made with continuous fire line production rates…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skogland
Snow profiles were sampled along an east-west gradient in wild reindeer home range from winter ground in the east to calving ground in the west. Hardness to ramsonde at Finse (west) increased from 22 to 359 kg from early to late winter; hardness in the winter habitat (east)…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adamczewski, Gates, Soutar, Hudson
The insular population of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) on Coats Island, Northwest Territories, is ultimately limited by winter food resources. This study was undertaken to assess forage biomass available during summer and to determine the effects of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suffling
Historical data for NW Ontario were used to determine relations between catastrophic (stand replacing) fires and landscape diversity in the boreal forest. Results showed that landscape diversity was greatest with intermediate amounts of fire disturbance. Any change of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, England
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES