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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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An interesting collection of reports of large fires in the Tanana Flats in 1941-1942. Parts of the 1941 fires over-wintered and reappeared in spring 1942—an early record of this phenomenon which sparked a Research Brief in 2020: https://akfireconsortium.files.wordpress.com/2020…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourn
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kopitke
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nichols
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Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stickel
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clausen, Keck, Hiesey
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruce
From the text...'As part of a general forest-fire-research program in recent years, considerable inquiry has been made into the visibility of smoke from forest fires in an attempt to answer the questions: How far can a lookout see a smoke? What are the factors upon which this…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hayes
This research ws conducted to determine how forest-fire behavior and its controlling variables differ between altitudes throughout the day on north and south slopes. Observations were made at eight stations, six of them paired on north and south aspects of 5,500-, 3,800-, and 2,…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leopold
'Severe fires sometimes surround and destroy grown animals and birds and kill them outright; but the greatest damage occurs through the destruction of eggs and young, and the ruin of coverts, without which game falls an easy prey to vermin and hunters. Fire also important…
Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
[Excerpted from text] As is well known, certain meteorological conditions are exceptionally favorable to the inception and the spreading of fires in the forested regions of this country. These conditions, although varied and due at times to somewhat different causes, have come…
Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hofmann
[Excerpted from text] Meteorological factors and forest development are inseparable in nature, and progress in the establishment of a forestry practice will be measured by the extent that these factors are made inseparable in the study of the sciences.
[This publication is…
Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palmer
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the forward] Next to crop prices, nothing is more important to the farmer's business than the weather, and in fact the weather often has a strong influence on prices. So every farmer takes a keen interest in the weather, and in many cases he is a weather prophet of no mean…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beach
The author notes that the Indians never put out their campfires, which sometimes led to forest fires.
Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palmer
Notes (Do Not Cite): Paired transects for lichen cover were established on 15 burned/unburned and grazed/ungrazed ranges aged 3 to 41 years, in the Fairbanks, Circle, Delta vicinity. The author estimates that 75% of the lichen range in the 'Fairbanks section' has burned over…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES