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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Birket-Smith, De Laguna
Notes on page 106 the use of fire for signaling by the Eyak people.
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fires affect animals mainly through effects on their habitat. Fires often cause short-term increases in wildlife foods that contribute to increases in populations of some animals. These increases are moderated by the animals' ability to thrive in the altered, often simplified,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Olson, Cronan, Camp, Barnes, McKenzie
The Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan recognizes the critical role of wildland fires in maintaining the ecological integrity of boreal forests. Identifying and maintaining natural fire regimes is an important component of fire management and is a wise undertaking from both…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document describes the Personal Computer Historical Analysis software, a module of NFMAS (National Fire Management Analysis System) which allows the user to analyze historical wildland fire occurrence for wildland fire planning.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shlisky
Altered fire regimes pose great threats to biodiversity. Fire managers recognize the need to reduce hazardous fuel loads, restore sustainable fire regimes and ecosystems, and decrease the threat of catastrophic wildfires to community values. The United States Department of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) provides accessible, up-to-date fire effects summaries, taken from current English-language literature, for almost 900 plant species, about 100 animal species, and 16 Kuchler plant communities found on the North American continent. This…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Landres
We report the results of a questionnaire and workshop that sought to gain a better and deeper understanding of the contemporary information needs of wildland fire and fuels managers. Results from the questionnaire indicated that the decision to suppress a wildland fire was most…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McIver, Weatherspoon
Many U.S. forests, especially those with short-interval, low- to moderate severity fire regimes are more dense and have greater quantities of fuels compared to pre-settlement times. Widespread treatments are planned to restore ecological integrity and to reduce the risk of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaennel Dobbertin, Grissino-Mayer
Two new online products are available to the international tree-ring community. The Bibliography of Dendrochronology (published online in February 2003) currently has 10,000 references and is the world's largest online bibliography specializing in tree-ring research. In March…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Cohen
Quantitative information regarding safety zone size for wildland firefighters is limited. We present a 3-surface theoretical model that describes the net radiant energy transfer to a firefighter standing a specified distance from a fire of specified height. Model predictions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hann, Bunnell
Ecosystem conditions on Federal public lands have changed, particularly within the last 30 years. Wildfires in the west have increased to levels close to or above those estimated for historical conditions, despite increasing efforts and expertise in fire prevention and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hakala, Seemel, Richey, Kurtz
During summer 1969, fires burned 86,000 acres of the Kenai National Moose Range, south-central Alaska; two fires accounted for 99 percent of the burned area. Suppression efforts involved nearly 5,000 men; 135 miles of catline were constructed, and 822,000 gallons of retardant…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Groisman, Knight, Heim, Razuvaev, Sherstyukov, Speranskaya
Significant climatic changes over the high latitudes in the 20th century have been reflected in many atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial variables. Changes in surface air temperature, precipitation, growing season duration, and snow cover cause changes in numerous derived…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Frost
Description not entered.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flieger
[from the text] The long-time role of fire in the forests of eastern Canada is masked, I believe, by the history of Canadian forest management in the exploitive years since 1920. There is now more forest land occupied by Industry -- mainly the Pulp and Paper Industry -- than…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Doerr, Keith, Rusch
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Berg, Anderson, De Volder
Three data-intensive studies were conducted to examine the fire history of the Kenai Peninsula on three different time scales. The Kenai Peninsula has two distinct fire regimes: a high frequency regime in black spruce (Picea mariana) and a low frequency regime in white (P.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
A bibliography on forest and rangeland fire history containing 307 references was completed during the winter of 1979 and released in the spring of 1980 (Alexander 1979). Nearly five hundred copies have been issued to date. I have casually kept track of new and overlooked…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This paper surveys available information on fire regimes and methodology employed in elucidating these regimes during the suppression, presuppression and post-glacial periods, principally in the boreal and Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest regions of Ontario. The presettlement…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brubaker
Disturbance shapes the characteristics of individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems. As evidence mounts that disturbance influences virtually all vegetation types and levels of ecological organization, its role as a selective agent and ecosystem process has gained…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beckwith
Description not entered.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
This paper discusses some of the historical aspects of wildfires in interior Alaska with particular reference to the period from 1940 to the present. Several speculations are made on the basis of recent records relative to fire impact or effects. The need to obtain quantitative…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bailey
Moose populations on the Kenai National Moose Range have fluctuated following major wildfires since at least the mid-1800's. After a 1,255 km{+2} wildfire in 1947, the moose population increased at least 13 percent per year to 1959, fluctuated around a peak of 3,000 moose…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Awada
We studied white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) population dynamics in the mixedwood section of boreal forest in Saskatchewan, Canada, using 35 stands along a chronosequence ranging from less than one year to more than 200 years after fire. We determined the spatial pattern…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville
From introduction: 'The importance of documented case studies or histories of wildfires (Alexander 1982) has been repeatedly emphasized by both fire managers and fire researchers (e.g., Schaefer 1961; Luke and McArthur 1978). For example, at the 4th Conference on Fire and Forest…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES