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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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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

Hard
Periodic outbreaks of black-headed budworms have been reported in southeast Alaska and on Prince William Sound since 1917. The 1950's outbreak caused severe defoliation of mature hemlock and almost one-third of net volume was lost in some stands. The defoliation trend-ratio of…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hao, Ward, Susott, Babbitt, Nordgren, Kaufman, Holben, Giles
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the NASA Terra satellite has been used to monitor aerosol optical thickness (AOT, ?) daily at 10km+10km resolution worldwide since August 2000. This information, together with the locations of active fires…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hanson
The interior of Alaska is a vast area characterized by cold soils which are often underlain by permafrost; a continental climate with great extremes in temperature; and the taiga, a pattern of boreal forest and tundra which is largely the result of past wildfires (Viereck, 1973…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hanson, Rowdabaugh
A 5-year (1984-88) study of fire costs and acreages burned under fire plans in Alaska was conducted by the Bureau of Land Management. Effects of classification and management of suppression areas as critical protection, full protection, modified action, and limited action are…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Hammond, Yarie
Temperature and precipitation data from weather stations in Alaska and western Canada were analyzed via universal kriging to estimate mean annual and mean growing season temperature and mean annual and mean growing season precipitation values on a 10 km grid in Alaska. These…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hall, Brown, Johnson
Description not entered.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hall
Description not entered.
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hale, Culberson
The 234 genera and 2,735 species reported from the lichen flora of the continental United States and Canada are listed, and a systematic synopsis of the genera by the 47 families recognized is given. New combinations are made in the genera Agrestia, Cladina, Dimelaena, and…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Haines
It happens to most firefighters sooner or later if they have been on the job long enough. Everything along the fireline seems fairly well controlled. But then, unexpectedly, the wind shifts and becomes erratic. Wind speed picks up dramatically for 5 to 15 minutes and then…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Haggstrom, Kelleyhouse
Wildlife diversity and abundance are directly tied to the ever changing nature of the boreal forest. Wildland fire and fluvial action have been primarily responsible for maintaining diversity and productivity. However, there is an increasing need to protect people, human…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Haeussler, Bergeron
Composition, structure, and diversity of vascular and nonvascular plant communities was compared 3 years after wildfire and clear-cutting in mesic trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests of the southern Canadian boreal forest. We examined mean response to disturbance and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Haag, Bliss
The effects of three types of surface disturbance (winter road, fire, and oil spill) on the radiant energy budget of upland low shrub-heath tundra were investigated. All disturbances to vegetation or the soil surface resulted in an albedo reduction, which led to a direct…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES