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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bevins, Martin
The slash (I) fuel model of the 1972 National Fire Danger Rating System was evaluated for homogeneity within the model and for differences from other fuel models. Clearcut slash is different from partial cut slash at the 1-percent level of confidence. Pacific Northwest clearcut…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hardison
Prevention of apothecial formation in Gloeotinia temulenta (blind seed disease) was studied in a greenhouse by application of 28 systemic adn 26 protectant fungicides over infected seeds of Lolium perenne. For complete or a high degree of apothecial suppression, effective…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hankin, Sawhney
Recently, a method for determining moisture in soil using a microwave oven was described by Miller, Smith, and Biggar (1974). This procedure requires special beakers and, in some cases, long times for heating. We describe here a simplified method for soil moisture determination…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
Adapted from a paper presented at the Joint Rocky Mountain Fire Council and Intermountain Fire Research Council Meeting, Rangeland Management and Fire held November 1-3, 1977 at Casper, Wyoming.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parmeter
Dwarf mistletoes are markedly host specific, perennial, obligate parasites. The success of mistletoe populations is tied not only to the suitability of the environment, but also to the availability and conditions of the hosts they infect. Thus, the dynamics of forest stand…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wong
The atmospheric input of carbon dioxide from burning wood, in particular from forest fires in boreal and temperate regions resulting from both natural and man-made causes and predominantly from forest fires in tropical regions caused by shifting cultivation, is estimated to be 5…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff
Productivity and utilization of browsed and unbrowsed Scouler willow (Salix scoulerina) was measured in a 1971 burn and in an adjacent 70-year-old mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forest. Production of available willow browse in the burn increased from 8 kg/ha in 1973 to 22.6…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tiedemann, Helvey, Anderson
During the first 3 years after a severe wildfire in 1970, maximum concentrations of nitrate-N (NO3-N) in stream water increased from prefire levels of <0.016 to 0.$6 mg/liter on a burned, unfertilized watershed and to 0.54 and 1.47 mg/liter on two watersheds that were burned…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, James
In a series of prescribed burns of low intensity and short duration in southern Ontario, wind speed, amount of fuel, and fuel moisture were important environmental controls of fire severity. A heterogenous pattern of burning, related to clumping in the vegetation and to a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rencz, Auclair
A study of 15 lichen woodlands in the subarctic of eastern Canada indicated a strong dominance by Picea mariana and Cladonia alpestris. Mean tree density was 556 trees per hectare. Over 75% of all tree stems were Picea mariana. Picea glauca and Larix laricina were only minor…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Percival, Noste
Briefly discusses fire-fighting problems in interior Alaska, and describes the successful use there, for water-dropping, of helicopters equipped with special buckets that can be filled from ponds or lakes while the aircraft is hovering. Several sizes of helicopter and bucket…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skogland
Snow profiles were sampled along an east-west gradient in wild reindeer home range from winter ground in the east to calving ground in the west. Hardness to ramsonde at Finse (west) increased from 22 to 359 kg from early to late winter; hardness in the winter habitat (east)…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
[from the text] The general effect of fire on shrubs should always be considered in relation to the ecological potential of a community. In grasslands, shrubs have a difficult time maintaining a dominant position due to competition from healthy grasses, droughts, and occasional…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A collection of papers, including: History of fire in North America (G.F. White; 24 ref.); Fire as an ecological factor in boreal forest ecosystems of Canada (G.W. Scotter; 57 ref.); The significance of forest fires in Mexico (J. Vasquez Soto); Perspective on fire and ecosystems…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, England
Description not entered.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein, White
From background: 'The status of caribou herds in Alaska has recently become a focus of attention for subsistence and sport hunters, management agencies, biologists, and the general public. This is a result of the pronounced decline in recent years of the Nelchina, Fortymile,…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Noste
Description not entered.
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yates
This evaluation concludes that more hemlock sawfly defoliation can be expected to occur in 1973 in the Ward Lake area. Saddle-backed looper is at endemic levels at Connell Lake. If the summer of 1973 is warmer than normal we can expect both the sawfly and the black-headed…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada
Reports a study between 1958 and 1963 in four stands of Betula papyrifera, in which seed-fall was sampled with traps constructed from tractor funnels. From the yields of viable seed in this and other studies, it is inferred that seed crops adequate for natural regeneration of…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wood
Description not entered.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Little
This text describes and illustrates the native woody plants in Alaska. From introduction: 'This handbook covers all Alaska from the narrow southestern coastal region along the Pacific Ocean west and southwest through the long chain of the Aleutian Islands, and north through the…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From introduction: 'This flood hazard analyses of the Delta Study Area was requested by the State Division of Lands, State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, on behalf of the Delta Junction Area Land-Use Planning Team. The request was the result of joint efforts between…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reports promising results of trials in 1969-71 on the use of cloud 'seeding' to increase rainfall up-wind of active forest fires [cf. FA 34, 2932]. Of 18 missions flown, 'non-seedable' conditions were observed near the target fire on 6 occasions. Of the other 12 missions, 2…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shank, Wilkinson, Penner
The results of analyses of rumen contents from 101 Peary caribou (Rangifer tanadus pearyi J. A. Allen 1902) collected on Banks Island are presented. Peary caribou on Banks Island were found to be versatile, broad spectrum grazers specializing on upland monocots, to ingest few…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES