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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Noste
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murray
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Year: 1961
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
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
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
Rothermel
The development of a mathematical model for predicting rate of fire spread and intensity applicable to a wide range of wildland fuels is presented from the conceptual stage through evaluation and demonstration of results to hypothetical fuel models. The model was developed for…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Roberts-Pichette
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rieger, Furbush, Schoephorster, Summerfield, Geiger
Soils of the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed (41.5 sq mi), central Alaska, were mapped by standard soil conservation service (USDA) methods. Seven soil series were recognized. Bradway silt loams, Ester silt loams, Karshner silt loams and Saulich silt loams, all underlain…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lotspeich
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lawson
Description not entered.
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lait, Taylor
Describes the application, in the boreal forest, of Australian methods of counter-firing by incendiary capsules dropped from helicopters [cf. FA 32, 945]. A prototype machine was developed for the priming and release of the capsules, since these operations are slow and awkward…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Beckwith, Curtis
This report documents the examination of 20 spruce beetle impact plots established on the Kenai Peninsula in 1971. The general result of the infestation in most areas of the Kenai Peninsula is a reduction in the size of the residual stand. Type conversion has not occurred. The…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Curtis
The spruce beetle continues to be the most damaging forest insect in Alaska. The Kenai Peninsula outbreak continues to be quite active while the outbreak on the west side of Cook Inlet is causing widespread and extremely heavy mortality. Both hemlock sawfly and black-headed…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bliss, Wein
Data are presented on several current studies being conducted in the Mackenzie Delta and the Arctic Archipelago in relation to oil and gas exploration. Tundra fires destroy most of the aboveground plant cover and result in significant increases in depth of the active layer. Fire…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hatler
Black bears in the interior of Alaska emerging from winter dens in early May spend much of the first three months of their annual active season in riverbottom and other lowland situations where the shoots and new leaves of green vegetation, especially Equisetum spp. Compose the…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Oil development, tourism, and expanding human populations, are bringing about increased pressures on large mammals in the Arctic and Subarctic. Management of marine mammals requires close international cooperation, and recent protection offered to the Polar Bear on a…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forsythe, Loucks
This study develops a data-transformation method useful in correlating species importance with habitat factors. The relative basal area of six major tree species is examined in relation to data on eight environmental factors. A parabola transformation makes the dome-shaped…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bliss, Wein
Data are presented on several current studies being conducted in the Mackenzie Delta and the Arctic Archipelago in relation to oil and gas exploration. Tundra fires destroy most of the aboveground plant cover and result in significant increases in depth of the active layer.…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marks, Taylor
From the text... 'In an experimental plot established by the Nature Conservancy in 1957 to follow long-term effects of sheep grazing and rotational burning on Calluneto-Eriophoretum, a study of the response of R. chamaemorus to these treatments was initiated in 1969 (Taylor…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster, Gessel
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS