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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Pegau
Several methods of evaluating reindeer ranges were tested on Nunivak Island and the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Aerial photographs or an aerial-visual method similar to those used in Sweden can be used to ascertain the boundaries and percent composition of the various vegetation…
Year: 1967
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
Hanson
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gill
Plant survival, fire-stimulated seed dispersal, fire- enhanced flowering and fire-promoted germination were the four traits examined in relation to various combinations of fire intensity, fire frequency, and season of fire occurrence (the fire regime). While fire selection can…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Eglitis
Within the infested patches totaling 1,200+ acres along the Taku River, about 1/2 of the spruce has been killed by spruce beetle. Additional mortality is likely to occur within these patches. Suppression alternatives are discussed. However, this report recommends no control…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
With the adoption of the National Fire Danger Rating System in Alaska, the entire State now has a common method of rating forest fire danger for all proctection agencies. Uniformity such as this was one of the primary reasons for the development of a national system. Compared…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney, Bevins, Bradshaw
Forest floor fuel loads, depths, and bulk densities are reported for four Interior Alaska cover types. Cover types included are upland black spruce, lowland black spruce, white spruce, and paper birch. Results indicate forest floor depths range from slightly over 2 inches to…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Artsybashev
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mathewes, Heusser
Transfer functions for converting pollen frequencies to estimates of mean July temperature and mean annual precipitation were applied to fossil pollen data from a sediment core in Marion Lake. The paleotemperature curve shows low July temperatures near 14 degrees C at the base…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ahti, Hepburn
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Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hefner
The forest resources of this country must be protected from wildfire. Protection does not eliminate fire but does reduce loss from fire. In recent years, more acres have been burned on the unprotected 3 percent of forest land than on the 97 percent under organized fire…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adams, Robus
From introduction: In northwestern Alaska the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is attempting to cope with a unique grazing situation in which two populations of the same species, one wild (caribou) and one domestic (reindeer), complete for use of high-quality winter range. The…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rundel
The subject of fire as an ecological factor is an exceedingly broad and complex one. The literature on fire in nature currently numbers hundreds of papers annually and seems to be growing at an exponential rate. It is certainly impossible to compress even a small amount of the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heinselman
Most presettlement Canadian and Alaskan boreal forests and Rocky Mountain subalpine forests had lightning fire regimes of large-scale crown fires and high-intensity surface fires, causing total stand replacement on fire rotations (or cycles) to 50 to 200 years. Cycles and fire…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Morikawa
Fire experiments were conducted in small scale compartment models under a forced or natural ventilation. Four liquid fuels of methanol, ethanol, n-hexane and benzene, which are considered to represent thermal decomposition products of polymers, were burned in the fire.…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright
From the text (p.1) ... 'The Forest Service of the Department of the Interior has long recognized forest protection as one of the important problems facing the people of this country. Scientific methods of increasing forest wealth can avail little unless the trees can be…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
The variances of species abundances from 141 upland stands are partitioned into habitat and fire frequency. Principal components analysis is then performed on each of these partitions. The habitat ordination has a topographic-canopy coverage gradient and a nutrient gradient. The…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guthrie
It is suggested that the melanism found in the arctic ground squirrel is due to the darker individuals being favored when burnt-over areas are invaded.
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ballard, Spraker, Taylor
During spring 1977 and 1978, 136 moose (Alces alces gigas) calves were radio-collared in the Nelchina and Susitna river basins of south central Alaska in an effort to determine causes of mortality. Thirteen calves (9.5%) died as a result of collaring activities. Of the 123…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Connell, Raison, Khanna, Woods
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Willms, Bailey, McLean, Kalnin
We examined the effects of fall clipping or burning on chemical constituents and their distribution in bluebunch wheatgrass the following spring. The study was made in both a big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass and a Douglas fir-bluebunch wheatgrass community. The concentration…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arianoutsou, Margaris
After a fire in a phryganic ecosystem, the nutreint losses in above-ground plant biomass, in nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) were quantitatively different. The most important is that of nitrogen (96%), followed by magnesium (59%),…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Freedman, Morash, Hanson
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS