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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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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

Klein
Tundra rangelands of Alaska and northern Canada occupy about 200,000 and 900,000 square miles respectively. The tundra supports far lower numbers of large grazers than other natural areas, averaging less than 100 lb per square mile. Forage quality of tundra plants is high…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Klein
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), introduced to St. Matthews Island in 1944, increased from 29 animals at that time to 6,000 in the summer of 1963, and underwent a crash die-off the following winter to less than 50 animals. In 1957, the body weight of the reindeer was found to…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kittel, Steffen, Chapin
Understanding the distribution and function of Arctic and boreal ecosystems under current conditions and their vulnerability to altered forcing is crucial to our assessment of future global environmental change. Such efforts can be facilitated by the development and application…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kissinger
National cooperative wildland fire prevention/education teams are available to support any geographic area preceding and during periods of high fire danger or fire activity. Severity dollars are appropriate for use in mobilizing a team.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hu, Brubaker, Gavin, Higuera, Lynch, Rupp, Tinner
We synthesize recent results from lake-sediment studies of Holocene fire-climate vegetation interactions in Alaskan boreal ecosystems. At the millennial time scale, the most robust feature of these records is an increase in fire occurrence with the establishment of boreal…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hu, Brubaker, Anderson
Pollen, plant-macrofossil, macroscopic-charcoal, and geochemical analyses of a sediment core from Wien Lake provide new information on the late Quaternary environmental history of central Alaska. Shrub tundra dominated by Betula glandulosa occupied the area 12 000 - 10 500 BP.…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hollingsworth, Walker, Chapin, Parson
The boreal forest is the second largest terrestrial biome, and the black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forest type occupies a large extent of boreal North America. Black spruce communities occur in a variety of environmental conditions and are especially important in the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Holleman, Luick, White
Lichen intakes by reindeer and caribou (Rangifer tarandus) during winter were estimated using penned reindeer, esophageal fistulated reindeer, and by the application of the fallout radiocesium method to free-grazing caribou. Estimated mean values for lichen intake as determined…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hogg, Wein
The valleys of southwestern Yukon, Canada have a continental climate with average annual precipitation of <300 mm. In 1958, fires burned large areas of mature mixedwood forests dominated by white spruce (Picea glauca) in the valleys near Whitehorse. Since then, the burned…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hogg
Four species of boreal forest conifers (Picea glauca, P. mariana, Larix laricina and Pinus banksiana) share a similar southern limit of natural distribution in the three Prairie Provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) of western Canada. The southern boundaries of boreal…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Harper, Bergeron, Gauthier, Drapeau
Fire reconstruction and forest inventory maps provided an opportunity to study changes in stand-level characteristics following fire using a data set comprised of all forest stands of fire origin in an area of over 10 000 km2. We assigned the date of the most recent fire…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hardy
The risks, hazards, and relative severity of wildland fires are presented here within the ecological context of historical natural fire regimes, time, space, and process. As the public dialogue on the role and impacts of wildland fire increases, it is imperative for all partners…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hardy, Schmidt, Menakis, Sampson
Spatial data products are most often developed to support resource management decisions. Rarely can the data stand by themselves as spatially-explicit risk assessments. We discuss the technical aspects of true risk assessments, and the contrast between risk assessments and the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Harden, Manies, Turetsky, Neff
The influence of discontinuous permafrost on ground-fuel storage, combustion losses,and postfire soil climates was examined after a wildfire near Delta Junction, AK in July 1999. At this site, we sampled soils from a four-way site comparison of burning (burned and unburned) and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Harden, Neff, Sandberg, Turetsky, Ottmar, Gleixner, Fries, Manies
Wildfires represent one of the most common disturbances in boreal regions, and have the potential to reduce C, N, and Hg stocks in soils while contributing to atmospheric emissions. Organic soil layers of the forest floor were sampled before and after the FROSTFIRE experimental…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Harden, Mack, Veldhuis, Gower
We used a dynamic, long-term mass balance approach to track cumulative carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) losses to fire in boreal Manitoba over the 6500 years since deglaciation. Estimated C losses to decomposition and fire, combined with measurements of N pools in mature and burned…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Harden, Trumbore, Stocks, Hirsch, Gower, O'Neill, Kasischke
To reconcile observations of decomposition rates, carbon inventories, and net primary production (NPP), we estimated long-term averages for C exchange in boreal forests near Thompson, Manitoba. Soil drainage as defined by water table, moss cover, and permafrost dynamics, is the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Harden, O'Neill, Trumbore, Veldhuis, Stocks
We used input and decomposition data from 14C studies of soils to determine rates of vertical accumulation of moss combined with carbon storage inventories on a sequence of burns to model how carbon accumulates in soils and moss after a stand-killing fire. We used soil drainage-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hard
Pruning live branches from different heights and sides on the boles of long-crowned Lutz spruce (Picea + lutzii Little) baited with frontalin reduced successful spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis Kby) attacks in pruned sections of most trees. The benefits of pruning seemed…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hard, Holsten
The current policy in south-central Alaska for treatment of spruce slash to prevent increase of spruce beetle populations is to limb felled trees that remain on the site and buck the stems into bolts about 0.6 m long. In this study, bucking of stems into short lengths, a costly…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hard
Spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis) concentrate early attacks on an initial tree, the 'focus' tree, but later attacks occur on adjacent trees, 'recipient' trees. The pattern of these initial and following attacks may provide a key for management approaches to deal with…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hard
Two stands of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss), one on a south aspect and one on a north aspect on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, were sampled intensively to determine site and host variables associated with high attack densities by spruce beetle, Dendroctonus…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hard
White spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stands were examined in 1982 to determine the relationship of tree growth to spruce beetle attack in an active spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby)) infestation on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. Conservative statistical…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hard, Werner, Holsten
Twenty-five variable sample plots were examined in mature white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stands, in southcentral Alaska. These stands, located in the Canyon Creek - Quartz Creek valley on the Kenai Peninsula, have been infested by spruce beetle, Dendroctonus…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES