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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Topic

Year

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Fire's effect on biological and chemical properties of chaparral soils

Dunn, DeBano
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Plant traits adaptive to fires in Mediterranean land ecosystems

Gill
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildlife of the prairies and plains

Evans, Probasco
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Public understanding of prescribed fires and its effects

Bethea
From the text: 'In my opinion, professional foresters should be working much harder to get the facts across on prescribed burning because if we don't I feel forest management could suffer from restrictive rules or laws, both at the State and Federal level. There are still some…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Consideration in use of fire by prescriptions for managing visual resources

Orr
'The control aspects of fire management from the hand raked fireline to the maintained firebreak can produce form, line, color & texture contrasts. Just as these contrasts can produce undesirable results, they can be used productively. It should be obvious by now that…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forecasting the 10-hour timelag fuel moisture

Fosberg
A procedure for forecasting the 10-hour timelag fuel moisture was developed from the theory of diffusion in wood. Studies of fuel moisture processes relating meteorological variables, as an external force, to moisture exchange processes in wood are combined here to provide a…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

A guide to the appraisal of wildfire damages, benefits, and resource values protected

Crosby
A set of value concepts and methods for appraising both values-at-risk and change in value resulting from wildfire are presented. Emphasis is placed on the effects of forest fires in terms of their affects on human and organization goal achievement. Fire effects that help…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Habitat utilization of snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) in interior Alaska

Wolff
Description not entered.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire management perspective: USDA Forest Service

Lotan
Fire management is a much talked about subject these days, but a lot more people are talking about it than practicing it. Although the fire management concept grew out of our traditional fire control activities, significant changes in practice have been excruciatingly slow in…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Changes in seed variability during storage for selected Salicaceae

Zasada
Description not entered.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Midwinter aggregation in the northern red-backed vole, Clethrionomys rutilus

West
Livetrapping in black spruce (Picea mariana) taiga 60 km north of Fairbanks, Alaska, during 1972-1973 revealed that the dispersion pattern of the capture points for a population of northern red-backed voles varied greatly with season. The population was distributed without…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Conditions for the start and spread of crown fire

Van Wagner
Some theory and observations are presented on the factors governing the start and spread of crown fire in conifer forests. Crown fires are classified in three ways according to the degree of dependence of the crown phase of the fire on the ground surface phase. The crown fuel is…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Browse quality and the Kenai moose population

Oldemeyer, Franzmann, Brundage, Arneson, Flynn
In trials in 1973-4 digestibility (in vitro DM disappearance) and levels of CF, CP and minerals were determined in herbage eaten by moose (Alces alces) in the NW Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. There were significant changes in all values between summer and winter in the major browse…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Viable seed populations by soil depth and potential site recolonization after disturbance

Moore, Wein
Seedling emergence from organic and mineral soil layers was measured for nine study sites at the Acadia Forest Experiment Station near Fredericton, New Brunswick. The number of viable seeds showed a decrease from deciduous-dominated forest, to conifer-dominated forest, to…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Impact of LeTourneau tree crushers on moose habitat on the Kenai National Moose Range

Oldemeyer
Unpublished
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Forest biology and management in high-latitude North American forests

Zasada, Van Cleve, Werner, McQueen, Nyland
Description not entered.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Recovery of disturbed tundra and taiga sufaces in Alaska

Van Cleve
Nine papers deal with the recovery and restoration of polluted aquatic ecosystems. Other papers include:Botkin, D.B. Strategies for the reintroduction of species to damaged ecosystems. [24 ref.] Particular reference is made to the whooping crane (Grus americana), the Indian lion…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Proceedings of a symposium: North American forest lands at latitudes north of 60 degrees

Description not entered.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Proceedings of the symposium on the environment consequences of fire and fuel management in Mediterranean ecosystems

Mooney, Conrad
[from the text] Regions of the world with a Mediterranean climate, such as South Africa, southern Australia, California, and countries around the Mediterranean Sea, are noted for frequent and devastating wildfires. The economic and environmental costs of these fires are…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The spruce beetle in white spruce forests of Alaska

Werner, Baker, Rush
This report provides information on the biological relationships between the spruce beetle and white spruce in Alaska.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Behavior, mechanics and energetics associated with winter cratering by caribou in northwestern Alaska

Thing
This study focuses on the behavior and mechanics of winter feeding in caribou as they relate to the energetics involved. Time-energy budgets show that the caribou calf spends less time than adults in digging for food but benefits from the displacement of its cow from feeding…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Probing for the bottom of the active layer

Mackay
Description not entered.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The effects of fire on the ecology of the boreal forest, with particular reference to the Canadian north: a review and selected bibliography

Kelsall, Telfer, Wright
This review analyzes literature relevant to effects of fire on the Boreal Forest, and on its related wildlife resources, with particular reference to the Canadian North. The selected bibliography contains the more recent and historically important references and is not all-…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The Canada goose (Branta canadensis}) in Prince William Sound, Alaska

Isleib
Description not entered.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

A revegetative guide for Alaska

Freeman, Stroh, Zasada, Epps, Smith
This guide provides information on plant materials fore revegetation of disturbed sites and for forage production. The cultural practices necessary to optimum results in revegetation and forage production are given. The guide is an extensive revision of the bulletin, 'Grasses…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES