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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Sharnoff
This compilation is an ongoing project, and more information is welcomed. Please send to: Stephen Sharnoff, 2406 Roosevelt Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94703
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reed
The objective of this report is to make a positive contribution to the health of Alaska's forests at a time of unprecedented loss due to the spruce bark beetle. Offered is a description of the impacted forest resource and a description of the current problem. An agenda for…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Paragi
Description not entered.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
A population census and the first stage of a muskox (Ovibos moschatus) habitat study was completed in 1992. Transects were established on a few sites where muskoxen were observed in late winter (early April) and were visited by helicopter in July. Ecosite, vegetation type and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
Forest Health Management was requested by the Seward Ranger District to assess the current situation and to identify options that could reduce resource impacts associated with spruce beetle activity. The report concludes that the greatest benefit appears to be from thinning…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, Mask, Holsten
Forest insect and disease populations and related damage increased throughout Alaskan forests in 1993. All of Alaska experienced the driest summer in almost 75 years. Spruce bark beetle now is infesting in excess of 700,000 acres. Hardwood defoliator activity has decreased from…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon
Decline and mortality of yellow-cedar is the most spectacular forest problem in southeast Alaska. Yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis), sometimes called Alaska-cedar, is the principal victim in this decline. Other tree species are largely unaffected. Yellow-cedar has…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fastie, Mann
Fire history in a forested, 550 ha second-order basin (basin P6) of the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska, was reconstructed from 21 replicated fire scars on black spruce trees and age structures of fire post-fire stands of black spruce and paper…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Colla, Southwick
Burning has been a traditional component of land clearing operations to eliminate unwanted debris from fields. Burning under the proper conditions can be a cost efficient method of debris removal, and provides nutrient release into the soil. Burning, however, carries with it the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Lee
The Intelligent Fire Management Information System (IFMIS) is a fire management tool which integrates fire weather, forest inventory, and suppression resources to provide an overall picture of the current fire situation. Using the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating (CFFDRS)…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGee, Feller
The species composition and density of seed banks in the forest floors and mineral soils of several undisturbed (immature, midseral forests) and disturbed (transmission line rights-of-way) ecosystems in southwestern British Columbia were estimated using the seedling-emergence…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lieffers, Macdonald, Hogg
Calamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) Beauv. is a widely distributed rhizomatous grass that can seriously inhibit growth of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) seedlings in the boreal forests of North America. We review the dynamics of this grass during four successional…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landhausser, Wein
A fire of unusually great severity (deep burning) burned across the forest-tundra ecotone near Inuvik, Northwest Territories from August 8 to 18, 1968. Burned-unburned paired study sites around the fire perimeter, which had been established in both tundra and forest-tundra in…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adams
This report presents impressions and opinions on the current large and rapidly increasing spruce beetle infestation in south-central Alaska.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards
Description not entered.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Brubaker
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lange
Description not entered.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Birket-Smith, De Laguna
Notes on page 106 the use of fire for signaling by the Eyak people.
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hosking
From the summary and conclusions ... 'The low temperature ignition of soil organic matter has been investigated for temperatures ranging from 100 to 500º C. Appreciable losses are found to occur below 100º C.; up to 200º C. heating results essentially in the distillation of…
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein, Yakushkin, Pospelova
Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) introduced to formerly occupied areas in northern Alaska (70 degrees N) in 1969 and 1970, and the Taimyr Peninsula (75 degrees N) in 1974 and 1975 increased in number (exceeding 20 %/year in the early years following their establishment), and have…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, French, Harrell, Christensen, Ustin, Barry
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) composite image data, produced from AVHRR data collected in 1990, were evaluated for locating and mapping the areal extent of wildfires in the boreal forests of Alaska during that year. A technique was developed to map forest fire…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Wowchuk
In this paper we present evidence for a large-scale (synoptic-scale) meteorological mechanism controlling the fire frequency in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. This large-scale control may explain the similarity in average fire frequencies and timing of change in average…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kevan, Tikhmenev, Usui
Pollination systems in the boreal zone range from generalist to specialist, both entomologically and botanically. The relative importance of wind pollination, insect pollination, sexual separation between and within plants, and between flowers, hermaphroditism of flowers, and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hunter
Because organisms have adapted to the natural disturbance regimes o f forest ecosystems such as fires and windfalls, conservationists often suggest that timber harvesting systems be designed to imitate natural disturbance regimes. Using the crown fires that shape true boreal…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES