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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Nautiyal, Doan
The existing levels of fire protection expenditures, if considered adequate by the forest manager, give an idea of the nonwood values of a forest as seen by him. The decisions regarding future protection expenditures can be improved by considering them together with the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Varley
Civilization continues to encroach on the borders of Yellowstone National Park. The ecological well-being of Yellowstone in the twnety-first century will depend on public policy decision made today. Critical observers generally agree that the overall health of the park is…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mealey
The National Wilderness Preservation System has evolved from the first wilderness preserve in 1919 to nealry 89 million acres in 1985. The Forest Service administers 83% of the wilderness system in the conterminous forty-eight states, where most future use is expected. The…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Johnson, Agee
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergen
The linear correlation computed for 22 points in a lodgepole pine canopy suggests independence between the point-to-point variations in speed at any level and variations of total canopy cover.
Year: 1974
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
Lancaster
Increased capabilities of the National Fire Danger Rating System have given fire managers new tools for evaluating various facets of fire management problems. These new tools require familiarization processes and new techniques for best and effective application. Suggested…
Year: 1974
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
Zoltai, Pettapiece
Earth hummocks occur on vast areas of perennially frozen mineral soils in the western Canadian subarctic regions. Different vegetation grows on different parts of the hummocks. The tops of the hummocks are vegetated by plants that have no roots (lichens, mosses) or by short-…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Wein, Bliss
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Webber, Barney
Describes the use of the Franklin wheeled skidder instead of crawler tractors to construct firelines (to reduce damage to the soil in the tundra). The basic skidder was equipped with 2000-gal tanks to carry fire retardant, and a spreader bar to lay the retardant or water. A…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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
Telfer
Extensive stands of the boreal forest of Canada in the late successional stages provide a suitable habitat for some birds and for caribou but are unsuitable for many other species. Deer, moose, beaver, ruffed grouse and many other birds and mammals require the greater amounts of…
Year: 1974
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
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
Pettapiece
Recent surveys in the Canadian subarctic have shown the wide distribution of cryogenic earth-hummock soils with permafrost. A study of chemical, physical, mineralogical and micromorphological features revealed quite acidic, partially unsaturated surface horizons, large amounts…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oldemeyer
The evaluation of forage quality for wild ungulates is reviewed and the amount and variability of carbohydrates, fats, protein, energy and digestibility of forage discussed. Results of in vitro digestion of 3 species palatable to moose on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska (Betula…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES