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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Albini
Describes a theoretical model for calculating thermochemical properties of the gaseous fuel that burns in the free flame at the edge of a spreading fire in fine forest fuels. Predicted properties are the heat of combustion, stoichiometric air/fuel mass ratio, mass-averaged…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Alden, Zasada
Lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta Dougl. is the most widely distributed conifer in North America. Cones of northern populations of the interior variety latifolia are highly serotinous and retain vigorous seed for more than 50 years. Average annual cone production is relatively…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Werner, Holsten
Direct solar radiation to the bark surface of white spruce, Picea glauca (Moench) Voss, is the primary environmental factor influencing the developmental rate of spruce beetles, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby), in Alaska. A phloem threshold temperature of 16.5 degree C is…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Viereck
The treeline in Alaska is usually mapped as the limit of white spruce Picea glauca (Moench) Voss along the south slope of the Brooks Range and in western Alaska and as the limit of Sitka spruce Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr. on Kodiak Island and in the Alaska Peninsula. In some…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Van Cleve, Weber, Viereck, Dyrness
Description not entered.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Skogland
(1) The population dynamics of eight reindeer herds in Norway, including the high arctic, were studied in relation to food abundance and population density. (2) Density-dependent effects were manifested through winter food…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Shaw, Eglitis, Laurent, Hennon
Alaska-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) trees have been dying of an unknown cause in large numbers at several locations in southeastern Alaska for more than 75 yr. At least 9,700 ha of cedar forest have been affected. Diseased stands often have 50% or more of their total…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sigman
Description not entered.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Racine, Dennis, Patterson
The location, cause, frequency, size, rotation times, and seasonal timing of tundra fires in the Noatak River watershed of northwestern Alaska were determined from Bureau of Land Management fire records for 1956-83 and satellite (LANDSAT) 1:1,000,000 scale, black and white, band…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Payette, Gagnon
Reconstructions of climate in the Holocene rely heavily on palaeoclimatic indicators such as altitudinal and latitudinal treeline movements inferred from direct (macrofossil) or indirect (pollen) evidence of sites distant from modern treelines. It is suggested here that long-…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Noga, Tikhonov
Description not entered.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Yarie
Description not entered.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wolff, Zasada
Production, availability, and utilization of woody browse by moose in winter were recorded in stands of 16 different ages of the Tanana River Floodplain and the Yukon-Tanana uplands of Alaska. These stands represented primary and secondary succession following fire, flooding,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Vogl
Sound resource management, including fire management, cannot be based on biased information and incomplete facts. A way to become critical is to understand the basic ecological principles that underlie resource management and that are inherent in the resources under…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Van Wagner
The shortest answer to the title question is that a fire's effect is independent of its mode of origin. So, rather than recreating the original fire regime per se, it might be more feasible to aim for the vegetation a natural fire regime would create. How to arrange the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Van Wagner
Excerpt: The material presented in this paper is drawn from one of the fire research studies at the Petawawa, Ontario, Forest Experiment Station; namely, an ecological study of fire in our boreal forest. The purpose of this work, in the official language of project statements,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Description not entered.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

White
Several abstracts on fire ecology, plant response and management in Alaska by following authors:Knapp, G. Dixon, J.S.Foote, J. and Viereck, L.A.Alden, J. and Zasada, J.Viereck, L.A. and Foote, M. J.Sampson, G. R. Post, K.E. and Werner, R.A.Lehnhausen, W. and Murphy, E.Densmmore…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Taylor, Malotte, Erskine
Alaska land managers and wildfire protection organizations have begun interagency fire planning for over 220 million fire-prone acres (=81 million ha). A 14-step process has been developed to guide planning teams. Four plans have been completed and nine are presently being…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Russell
Description not entered.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Rowe
Land management goals in the North ought to stem from a land ethic, a care for the terrain. They ought to take account of the historical forces that have produced landscape variety. The occurrences of fires in space and in time have created a patchwork mosaic and thus, have…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sandberg, Pierovich, Fox, Ross
The objective of this report is to summarize the current state-of-knowledge of the effects of forest burning on the air resource, and to define research questions of high priority for the management of smoke from prescribed and wild fires. Our purpose was to provide background…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Rennie
Productivity of the boreal forest in Canada is discussed in relation to location of soils, distribution and species composition of the forest, ecological factors, production and yield, and factors that affect production (fire, insects, diseases, management practices, and air…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Peterson
Description not entered.
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Turcott
Description not entered.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES