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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Eenigenburg
Presents an analytical procedure that uses a FORTRAN 77 program to estimate fire direction and rate of spread. The program also calculates the variability of these parameters, both for subsections of the fire and for the fires as a whole. An option in the program allows users…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Buskirk
Description not entered.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fritts
[Description from Elsevier website] Tree Rings and Climate deals with the principles of dendrochronology, with emphasis on tree-ring studies involving climate-related problems. This book looks at the spatial and temporal variations in tree-ring growth and how they can be used to…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Patterson, Edwards, Maguire
Charcoal preserved in lake sediments, peat, and soils provides a record of past fire occurrence. An understanding of fire history is important in evaluating interactions between vegetation, climate and human disturbances through at least the last several millennia. In this paper…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Blakely, Johnson
Forest fire retardant research was divided into five different study areas: (1) retardant effectiveness; (2) retardant physical properties; (3) retardant delivery systems; (4) retardant-caused corrosion; and 5) retardant environmental impact. Past research is reviewed for each…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Swanson, George, Luedecke
This manual and user guide for individual tanker aircraft is intended to: 1) introduce a basis for systematic planning so that specific air tankers can be employed in the most effective manner based on their inherent capabilities or limitations and the local fire/fuel situation…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Regan, Kourtz, Nozaki
The bias involved in a point-process analog (Dijkstra algorithm) to a continuous fire is shown to be related to the number of points involved in the definition of adjacency and the degree of directionality of the rates of spread. If the point-process starts with a fire perimeter…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Getter
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Eaton
For more than a half-century, it has been public policy to suppress all brush and forest fires, yet contrary to Smokey the Bear's conventional wisdom, not all fires may be harmful. Recent evidence suggests that periodic small fires may benefit forests and wildlife. A long period…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Benech
An experimental project on convective plumes initiated from the ground by an exceptionally powerful artificial heat source has been carried out. The heat source consisted of 97 oil burners releasing a total power of 600 MW. The measuring equipment consisted of a ground network…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavdas
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carpenter, Taylor, Cortner, Gardner, Zwolinski, Daniel
Data from three independently conducted surveys indicate a high level of support for management practices initiated and controlled by the manager. Additional analysis performed on one of the data sets further reveals the extent to which sociodemographic characteristics and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ffolliott, Clary, Baker
The forest floor affects the hydrological cycle, herbage production, tree regeneration, and fire behavior. Forest floor depths and weights under ponderosa pine stands on soils developed from sedimentary parent materials were similar to those previously found on soils developed…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Helmers
Fire access usually should be via ridges, where soil tends to be shallow, erosion hazards minimal, and timber cover most open. Dry slopes with deep permafrost or none are useable, but any slope is a potential erosion hazard. Permafrost areas, muskegs, and poorly drained sites…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coady
Description not entered.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Norum, Teutsch, Densmore
Seedlings of black spruce, aspen, green alder, and grayleaf willow planted on black spruce/feather moss sites in the boreal forest in interior Alaska survived and grew relatively well over a 6-year period after prescribed burning. Survival of black spruce was significantly…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein
Characteristics of over 50 tundra fires, located primarily in the western Arctic, are summarized. In general, only recent records were available and the numbers of fires were closely related to the accessibility of the area. Most of them covered areas of less than one square…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Regelin, Schwartz, Franzmann
The nutritional quality of important moose forage species on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska was evaluated at bimonthly intervals for one year. The quality of forage species varied dramatically using an annual cycle. In vitro digestibility and crude protein content of a…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine, Johnson, Viereck
Studies of tundra fires between 1977-1983 in three areas of northwestern Alaska (Seward Peninsula [65°35'N], Noatak River [68°00'N], and Kokolik River [69°30'N]) representing a latitudinal gradient of 460 km. Postfire vegetation and permafrost recovery rates were documented in…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Oldemeyer, Regelin
From l974-l98l, a study was conducted on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska to determine the response of spruce and moose forage [willow (Salix spp.), aspen (Populus tremuloides), and paper birch (Betula papyrifera) to fire and habitat management. Vegetation was sampled…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nichols
From palynological studies it appears that northernmost dwarf spruces of the tundra and parts of the forest-tundra boundary may be relicts from times of prior warmth, and if felled might not regenerate. This disequilibrium may help explain the partial incongruence of modern…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mead, Yarie, Herman
Vegetation on sample inventory plots in the Tanana River basin was described using horizontal-vertical profile descriptor techniques to show percentage of foliar cover and average height by species. These profiles were used in conjunction with species biomass equations to…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
In 1931 Herbert L. Stoddard, the Dean of Game Management in his classic investigation of the Bobwhite Quail stated: 'While an immediate and direct effect of burning is, of course always apparent, the general effect of long-continued annual or irregular but frequent burning upon…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff
Notes (Do Not Cite): The point-center-quarter and Shafer twig-count methods were used to estimate availabaility of hardwood browse and consumption by moose on the Tanana River flood plain near Fairbanks. In 8- and 15- year -old stands, respectively, 38 and 113 kg/ha of…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weixelman
From 1976 to 1986, 28 sites including 8,150 acres of moose (Alces alces gigas) winter range on the Chugach National Forest have been treated with prescribed fire. This is part of an ongoing project to increase the quantity and quality of hardwood browse available to moose on…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES