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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Parmeter
Dwarf mistletoes are markedly host specific, perennial, obligate parasites. The success of mistletoe populations is tied not only to the suitability of the environment, but also to the availability and conditions of the hosts they infect. Thus, the dynamics of forest stand…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wong
The atmospheric input of carbon dioxide from burning wood, in particular from forest fires in boreal and temperate regions resulting from both natural and man-made causes and predominantly from forest fires in tropical regions caused by shifting cultivation, is estimated to be 5…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff
Productivity and utilization of browsed and unbrowsed Scouler willow (Salix scoulerina) was measured in a 1971 burn and in an adjacent 70-year-old mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forest. Production of available willow browse in the burn increased from 8 kg/ha in 1973 to 22.6…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tiedemann, Helvey, Anderson
During the first 3 years after a severe wildfire in 1970, maximum concentrations of nitrate-N (NO3-N) in stream water increased from prefire levels of <0.016 to 0.$6 mg/liter on a burned, unfertilized watershed and to 0.54 and 1.47 mg/liter on two watersheds that were burned…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, James
In a series of prescribed burns of low intensity and short duration in southern Ontario, wind speed, amount of fuel, and fuel moisture were important environmental controls of fire severity. A heterogenous pattern of burning, related to clumping in the vegetation and to a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rencz, Auclair
A study of 15 lichen woodlands in the subarctic of eastern Canada indicated a strong dominance by Picea mariana and Cladonia alpestris. Mean tree density was 556 trees per hectare. Over 75% of all tree stems were Picea mariana. Picea glauca and Larix laricina were only minor…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skogland
Snow profiles were sampled along an east-west gradient in wild reindeer home range from winter ground in the east to calving ground in the west. Hardness to ramsonde at Finse (west) increased from 22 to 359 kg from early to late winter; hardness in the winter habitat (east)…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, England
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein, White
From background: 'The status of caribou herds in Alaska has recently become a focus of attention for subsistence and sport hunters, management agencies, biologists, and the general public. This is a result of the pronounced decline in recent years of the Nelchina, Fortymile,…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wood
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From introduction: 'This flood hazard analyses of the Delta Study Area was requested by the State Division of Lands, State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, on behalf of the Delta Junction Area Land-Use Planning Team. The request was the result of joint efforts between…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shank, Wilkinson, Penner
The results of analyses of rumen contents from 101 Peary caribou (Rangifer tanadus pearyi J. A. Allen 1902) collected on Banks Island are presented. Peary caribou on Banks Island were found to be versatile, broad spectrum grazers specializing on upland monocots, to ingest few…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quinlan
Small mammal trapping success generally increased with the age of the stand among mature, 40-50-yr-old, and 20-yr-old stands. Adjusted trapping success figures indicate that fewer mammals of all species captured occur in burned areas than in mature forest. However, red-backed…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quinlan
Bird censuses were conducted in five study plots chosen to represent different successional stages of white spruce forest following fire. A 9-yr-old burn supported only half the number of breeding species and 60% fewer breeding birds than found in mature forests. The area burned…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nodler, LaPerriere, Klein
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neiland
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turner, Lawson
Weather elements affecting the calculation of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) are described. How to choose an adequate weather station site for fire danger rating observations, how to expose each weather instrument correctly, and the consequences of errors in…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Miller
The wildlife studies found herein were conducted during the summer of 1978 by members of the Forest Wildlife staff stationed in Seward, Alaska. Their purpose was to analyze the affects of past wildfires and the present Chugach-Moose Fire Programs prescribed burning operations.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Machida
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyon, Crawford, Czuhai, Fredriksen, Harlow, Metz, Pearson
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lenhausen
Samples of hardwood browse were collected on two burned areas to estimate CAG and total biomass. Current annual growth was determined by measuring from tip of twig to first bud scar. Samples were dried in an over for 20-24 hours at 100-105 deg C before being weighed in biomass…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kane, Seifert, Taylor
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall, Brown, Johnson
During the summer of 1977 widespread fires occurred in northwest Alaska. Through the use of Landsat imagery and ground studies, one such fire, at Kokolik River, was examined. The Kokolik fire was first reported on 26 July, and by the time it was extinguished had consumed 44 km2…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES