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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Williams, Sheinson
[no description entered]
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mees
The data necessary for fire simulation may be made available through an algorithm based on tracing of boundaries composed of straight-line segments. Useful assumptions are that if a closed boundary does not contain a given point, then any other closed boundary contained within…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson
Increasing expenditures for forest fire retardant and the development of more efficient delivery systems have emphasized the need for more knowledge on the transmission and retention characteristics of wildland fuels. In a series of tests, retardant was cascaded from an airplane…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Roussopoulos
Summary of fire intensity levels, flame length, and fire description and control actions.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Mara
Animal exposure studied and large scale fire data indicate that one of the early life hazards in a developing fire is from the generation of carbon monoxide and other combustion gases. A gas chromatograph as been interfaced to an NBS Smoke Chamber to study the rate of generation…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Basham
This study has defined actual reductions in recoverable merchantable volumes per acre in fire-killed pine stands. It has demonstrated that, when more than two years have elapsed, reductions in yield of considerable magnitude due to deterioration as a direct or indirect result of…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright
There are many uses for prescribed burning in the management of forests, chaparral, grasslands, watersheds, and wildlife. Some of these uses have been pointed out in this paper. There are also many dangers in using fire, both in its application and in its results. To minimize…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weaver
[from the text] As we walked onto the beach at Bandon, Oregon that evening in late August 1933, we beheld to the north a tremendous wall of yellow smoke, thousands of feet high. It extended out over the ocean, seemingly to infinity, and slightly to the right of the setting sun.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Applequist
The determination of total tree age is usually based on ring counts of increment cores which ideally should pass through tree center. For several reasons the borer does not always "hit the pith," and it becomes necessary to estimate how many rings were missed. The pith locator…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Both the landforms and the vegetation of the earth develop to states that are maintained in dynamic equilibrium. Short-term equilibrium of a hillslope or river valley results from intersection between erosional and depositional tendencies, controlled by gravitational force and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lancaster
Increased capabilities of the National Fire Danger Rating System have given fire managers new tools for evaluating various facets of fire management problems. Examples of suggested approaches for use of NFDR numbers in prevention, presuppression planning, and in initial attack…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nautiyal, Doan
The existing levels of fire protection expenditures, if considered adequate by the forest manager, give an idea of the nonwood values of a forest as seen by him. The decisions regarding future protection expenditures can be improved by considering them together with the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergen
The linear correlation computed for 22 points in a lodgepole pine canopy suggests independence between the point-to-point variations in speed at any level and variations of total canopy cover.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lancaster
Increased capabilities of the National Fire Danger Rating System have given fire managers new tools for evaluating various facets of fire management problems. These new tools require familiarization processes and new techniques for best and effective application. Suggested…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Axelrod
[no description entered]
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zoltai, Pettapiece
Earth hummocks occur on vast areas of perennially frozen mineral soils in the western Canadian subarctic regions. Different vegetation grows on different parts of the hummocks. The tops of the hummocks are vegetated by plants that have no roots (lichens, mosses) or by short-…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, Bliss
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Webber, Barney
Describes the use of the Franklin wheeled skidder instead of crawler tractors to construct firelines (to reduce damage to the soil in the tundra). The basic skidder was equipped with 2000-gal tanks to carry fire retardant, and a spreader bar to lay the retardant or water. A…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Telfer
Extensive stands of the boreal forest of Canada in the late successional stages provide a suitable habitat for some birds and for caribou but are unsuitable for many other species. Deer, moose, beaver, ruffed grouse and many other birds and mammals require the greater amounts of…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pettapiece
Recent surveys in the Canadian subarctic have shown the wide distribution of cryogenic earth-hummock soils with permafrost. A study of chemical, physical, mineralogical and micromorphological features revealed quite acidic, partially unsaturated surface horizons, large amounts…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oldemeyer
The evaluation of forage quality for wild ungulates is reviewed and the amount and variability of carbohydrates, fats, protein, energy and digestibility of forage discussed. Results of in vitro digestion of 3 species palatable to moose on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska (Betula…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peek
This review covers 41 studies of moose food habits, including 13 from the intermountain west, 6 from Alaska, and 22 from Canada, Minnesota, Isle Royale, and Maine. Only nine of these studies include information on summer food habits, only four on year-long food habits and only…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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