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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schmoldt
Residential encroachment into wildland areas places an additional burden on fire management activities. Prevention programs, fuel management efforts, and suppression strategies, previously employed in wildland areas, require modification for protection of increased values at…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fritts, Swetnam
This chapter reviews basis for some fundamental techniques, principles, and practices of dendroecology. Dendroecology refers to applications of dendrochronological techniques to problems in ecology. The important ecological problems for which dendroecological techniques are well…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Simpson
Basic geograpahic information systems and spatial analysis techniques are freqeuntly used in order to gain environmental understanding as a basis for landscape planning. While technical descriptions of such techniques are common, little has been written regarding their…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fire area and perimeter length tables for Canadian forest fire behavior prediction system fuel types
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor, Cortner, Gardner, Daniel, Zwolinski, Carpenter
Data from three separate but related surveys address the linkages between recreation and public perception of attitudes toward fire management. Recreation ranks high among alternative forest resource uses and is a serious concern vis-a-vis fire effects. Public acceptance of new…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parsons, Graber, Agee, van Wagtendonk
An evolving understanding of ecological processes, together with ambiguities in National Park Service policy, have led to multiple interpretations of the role of management in our large natural area National Parks. National Park Service management policies must be dynamic and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, de Groot
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
West
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Salazar, Nilsson
Wildland fire managers and planners rely heavily on information that describes environmental and sociological factors. Complex and dynamic interactions among these factors are commonplace, but difficult to model and portray in a useable and understandable way. And when dealing…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks
The expanding use of prescribed fire to achieve North American land management objectives has led, in recent years, to the increased use of helicopter-ignition, large-scale controlled burns. These mass-ignition convection burns often generate extremely intense and erratic fire…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A scheme is presented for dealing with the full range of fire behavior in conifer forests. It is based on empirical data from fires in Canadian forests plus a theory to describe the physical conditions for the transition from surface to crown fire. In its ideal form, the model…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Norum
Broadcast burning following harvesting of flood plain sites in Alaska substantially decreased residual organic material and increased exposed mineral soil. Two forest types were studied: white spruce/alder/feathermoss and white spruce/alder/lingenberry/feathermoss. The latter…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young, Marty
A group of wild moose from Manitoba, Canada, were documented as having excessive tooth wear. Replicas of one incisor tooth were collected from 16 individuals and from 19 controls for comparison by volumetric and scanning electron microscopic analysis. All animals were aged from…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Mead
Describing structural aspects of forest vegetation is now routine in forest inventories in Alaska. The biomass structure of understory vegetation is considered a necessary part of the inventory process. In this study twig, foliar and combined (twig plus foliar) biomass were…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Hervieux
Rumen samples from 104 barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) collected in March 1980 and 1981 at 18 sites on the winter range in south-central Northwest Territories (NWT) and northern Saskatchewan were examined microscopically for relative occurrence of plant…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Lawson, Alexander, Van Wagner, McAlpine, Lynham, Dube
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skogland
Density dependent effects of food limitation on productivity have been documented for >12 species of large ungulates. In wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) a decrease in recruitment rate and adult female body size (although not in adult survival rate) develops in response to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shasby, Carneggie
During the past 5 years, the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center Field Office in Anchorage, Alaska has worked cooperatively with Federal and State resource management agencies to produce land-cover and terrain maps for 245…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schwartz, Franzmann
We compared population dynamics for moose (Alces alces) and black bear (Ursus americanus) in an older (1947) and recent (1969) burn from 1978-1988. Moose densities in the 1947 burn were moderately high in early years of study (1.3 moose/km2) but declined dramatically in later…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Risenhoover
I studied the botanical composition and nutritional qualities of moose (Alces alces) winter diets in subalpine habitats in Denali National Park and Preserve (DNPP), Alaska during January-April 1983 and 1984. Feltleaf willow (Salix alaxensis), diamondleaf willow (S. arbusculoides…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pavlov
Notes on article (do not cite): The article focuses on regeneration of the soil and vegetation cover in hummocky tundra with unsorted circles in a mountainous area of Chukotka after a fire. The morphology, soils, and vegetation prior to the fire are analyzed in detail, and…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Graber, Agee, van Wagtendonk
An evolving understanding of ecological processes, together with ambiguities in National Park Service policy, have led to multiple interpretations of the role of management in our large natural area National Parks. National Park Service management policies must be dynamic and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morneau, Payette
A 250-yr postfire plant chronosequence in well-drained sites at the northern limit of the boreal forest in the Grande riviere de la Baleine area, N. Quebec, was reconstructed from 9 sites associated with the development of the lichen/spruce (Cladina stellaris/Picea mariana)…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
A close relationship between organic-carbon content and bulk density was utilized to develop equations for predicting the bulk densities of inorganic soils around the Gulf of Alaska. Most of the samples used in developing these equations were from B and C horizons, but they…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ueyoshi, Roads
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES