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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Oberle
Discusses (with particular reference to conditions in Alaska) the value of occasional small fires in burning undergrowth and litter to prevent the accumulation of inflammable material and the risk of major damage, the erosion likely to be caused by using bulldozers to make fire…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cringan
In this paper I wish to review certain facets of the role of fire in the ecology of forest game, then go on to speculate about how forest fire protection may influence populations of forest wildlife. Before considering the effects of fire on game, it is necessary to remember…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Uggla
Description not entered.
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
From the Summary: 'I have discussed the reaction and behavior of animals to fire, smoke and the resulting burnt ground along four general lines: (1) Avoidance response to fire and smoke; (2) Animals attracted to fire and smoke; (3) Animals relationships to blackened areas caused…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Milke
Notes (Do Not Cite): Moose preferred S. alaxensis, S. arbusculoides, S. pulchra, and S. interior. Least selected species were: glauca, Barclayi, and hastata. Preference independent of relative abundance. S. alaxensis and S. pulchra most widespread in Interior. SAL has highest…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Gregory
This paper reviews literature concerning natural regeneration of white spruce in the southern boreal forest and incorporates what is known about this subject for the boreal forests of interior Alaska. A mineral soil seedbed; reduction of competing vegetation; shade, especially…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Describes the land, its climate, and the forests, most of which are in public ownership. In the coastal forests, of which 4 million acres are classed as commercial, Western Hemlock predominates, and in the interior forests (ca. 125 million acres, most of which is ravaged by fire…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trigg, Noste
The analysis of data from 12 stations showed that highly significant differences in both average spread index and build-up index tables exist between stations.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skuncke
Description not entered.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shacklette
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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Noste
Description not entered.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larson
This bibliography is a listing of the literature on the subject of fire as it relates to the high latitudes; its occurrence, ecological effects and methods of control. It encompasses forest and tundra fires in far north regions as well as installation and facility fires in polar…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harris
This bibliography contains references to North American and European literature containing information about Alaska-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D. Don) Spach). Abstracts are given for many of those references considered more significant, and a subject matter index is…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanson, Scott, Skoog, Rausch, Miller
Description not entered.
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Curtis
This infestation is located in the Ward Creek Drainage, along the west shore of Connell Lake near Ketchikan. At least 1/4 of the dominant and codominant trees have been defoliated in excess of 90%, and 1/2 of the remaining overstory has been defoliated in excess of 50%.…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crosby, Curtis
The spruce beetle remains the most damaging forest insect in Alaska. It is at epidemic proportions on the Kenai Peninsula and is active in the Copper River Valley. Cedar bark beetle remains quite active in localized areas in southeast Alaska. Salvage logging is being used to…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
Fine-fuel moisture content tables, using dry bulb and dewpoint temperatures as entry data, have been developed for use with the National Fire-Danger Rating System in Alaska. Comparisons have been made which illustrate differences resulting from danger-rating calculations based…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The effects of forest fires on the physical and chemical properties of soils in northwestern Ontario
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002] During the summer of 1968, an extensive survey was made of burnt and unburnt soils in northern Ontario. It was found that fires, although consuming part of the surface organic layers, only rarely exposed the mineral soil to any extent…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Rickard, Vietor
The influence of surface cover on thaw penetration in alpine and arctic soils of Alaska was determined. Several manipulated treatments were employed: removal of all vegetation, mulching, shearing and fire. Thaw and subsidence more than doubled on the bare and sheared plots and…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Rickard
Description not entered.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McLean
There is a close relationship between root system characteristics and the relative fire resistance of Douglas fir forest zone species in southern interior British Columbia. Susceptible species are usually those that have fibrous root systems or produce stolons or rhizomes which…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Barney
Description not entered.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Buckley
National concern for the welfare of fish and wildlife in Alaska is evidenced by provision in the Alaska Statehood Act withholding administration of this resource from the state until such time as the Secretary of the Interior certifies to the Congress that the Alaska State…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dyer
In the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, spruce logs infested by Dendroctonus obesus (Mannerheim) were placed beside thermographs at three sites. Throughout the summer, the mean and minimum air temperatures were higher on a mountain slope than in two valley bottoms at…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES