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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Frandsen
Sufficient data exist within the literature to allow the woody biomass of two subspecies of Artemisia tridentata, basin big sagebrush Artemesia tridentata ssp. tridentata), and Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata ssp. wyomingensiis), to be classified into 3 standard fuel…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Latham
This paper presents a system for locating lightning strikes and predicting the number of fire ignitions on forests and rangelands. This system uses variables representing weather and fuels and real-time lightning locations as inputs. Outputs from the system consist of printouts…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
The burnout of large-sized woody fuels, 1 to 6 inches thick, is being measured at the USDA Forest Service Northern Forest Fire Laboratory in Missoula, Mont. Physical properties of the fuel bed are varied to determine threshold for interactive burning, periods of flaming and…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yarie, Van Cleve
A total of 58 trees was sampled from eight stands across a large area of interior Alaska. Regression equations were developed to estimate standing aboveground biomass for 22 white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stands. Aboveground standing biomass of white spruce in mature…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yakovlev
In 1971-80, extensive and detailed investigations were made in the Kostroma region of the USSR on various primary forest types, viz. spruce forests of the compositum, oxalidosum, myrtillosum and riparian types; pine forests of the vacciniosum, cladinosum, and sphagnosum types;…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schwartz, Franzmann
Mortality of young moose calves (Alces alces gigas) was evaluated on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, during spring and early summer 1977 and 1978. Studies were conducted both inside and outside of a 461-ha browse-rehabilitated area (Willow Lake) where standing vegetation had been…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jeglum
A long-term study of regeneration in alternate strip clearcuts in shallow-soil upland black spruce near Nipigon, Ontario, has revealed whifts in tree species composition. The original forest was dominated by black spruce and had minor tree size components of jack pine, balsam…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
From the introduction: 'This is a brief description of the principles and techniques used in developing the moisture codes in the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) as it stands in 1982, and as it will be extended in the few years to come. Three comments are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Singh
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Peterson, Kabzems
The literature on relationships between climatic variables and growth rates of boreal tree species was reviewed from sources in North America, the USSR, and the Scandinavian countries, with emphasis on information from Canada. An annotated bibliography of 329 references,…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norum
Factors for adjusting wind velocities from the 20-foot standard anemometer height down to an average wildfire midflame height (3.5 ft for the fuels studied) are given for exposed, partially sheltered, and sheltered fuels in Alaska. The vaules are suitable for predicting wildfire…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
One hundred thirty forests stands ranging in age from 1 month postfire to 200 years were sampled and described by successional series (white spruce and black spruce) and by developmental stage (newly burned, moss-herb, tall shrub-sapling, dense tree, hardwood, and spruce).…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
Provides FWI system DC and moisture content relations for several fuel types. Also lays out fuel moisture sampling methodology and a spring code start-up methodology.
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Janz, Quintilio
A large region of central and western Canada experienced a particularly severe forest fire season during 1980 in terms of the number of fire starts, area burned, and suppression expenditures. In Alberta, most of the fire occurred during April and May in the northern half of the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
Fire danger conditions in the forested regions of the prairie provinces and Northwest Territories are monitored by a network of about 350 fire weather stations. Meteorological drought or cumulative dryness greatly aggravates the problems experienced in forest fire containment…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein
Throughout the boreal circumpolar North almost all terrestrial ecosystems exhibit soil organic matter accumulation, with increased accumulation at higher soil moisture levels. Fire frequencies in organic terrain are very low compared with drier ecosystems such as those dominated…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Wagner
This chapter begins with a review of northern fuels and fire behaviour, and stresses the general uniformity of all spreading fires in vegetation, the two limiting criteria being the rate of forward heat transfer and fuel quality. Five classes of fire and examples are listed with…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hard, Werner, Holsten
Twenty-five variable sample plots were examined in mature white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stands, in southcentral Alaska. These stands, located in the Canyon Creek - Quartz Creek valley on the Kenai Peninsula, have been infested by spruce beetle, Dendroctonus…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Feller
'Two studies were undertaken. An initial study in 1974 produced results that indicated significant losses of nitrogen and some other elements. The study was repeated 1981 as a check on the results of the 1974 burn, and to provide an assessment of the methods used in the first…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dyrness, Norum
Seven units (about 2 ha each) of black spruce - feather moss forest were experimentally burned over a range of fuel moisture conditions during the summer of 1978. Surface woody fuels were sparse and the principal carrier fuel was the forest floor (largely mosses and their…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Connel, Menage
Rates of weight loss and release of N, P, K, S, Ca, Mg, Na, and Cl from litter of several species in jarrah (E. marginata Donn ex Sm.) forest were measured in relation to site fire history and soil type. Weight loss from leaf litter decreased in the order jarrah > marri (E.…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Auclair
Unique aspects of fire in lichen tundra and forest-tundra were enumerated. The very high inherent fire susceptibility is related to the presence of lichens and shrubs. Lichens are predisposed to burning by virtue of continuous distribution on the soil surface, high surface-…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Artsybashev
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McMahon
Forest fires can be divided into two broad classes-wildfires and prescribed fires. Wildfires, whether caused by nature (lightning, etc.) or by the accidental or malicious acts of man, are not planned by forest managers and do not occur under controlled conditions. They can be…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS