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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Robinson
A fascinating compilation of materials on the 421,000-acre Kenai wildfire of the summer of 1947 by Roger Robinson, who at that time led the fledgling territorial Alaskan Fire Control Service as Regional Forester. His collected materials (in response to a request from the Corps…
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Griggs
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Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Enfield, Conner
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Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Hester
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Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Review of the relation of calcium to availability and absorption of certain trace elements by plants
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Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allen, Maxwell
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Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
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Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boerker
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Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alberston, Weaver
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Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Höricht
From the text ... ' It is almost impossible for forestry to do anything in defense against smoke devastation. Even when conditions of terrain permit, the cultivation of timber with higher smoke resistance is outweighed by the important factor of mininum mass effect. Incidentally…
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyman
From the summary and conclusions ... 'This report describes guiding principles defining the what, why, and where of economical fuel reduction in the northern Rocky Mountain region. It includes comments concerning the when and how although it does not treat these subjects in full…
Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram, Jemison
From the text ... 'Early and reliable detection of forest fires is the keystone of efficient fire control. It means the discovery of fires while they are small and results in lower suppression costs and damages. Private, State, and Federal fire-protection agencies throughout the…
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Michaelis
From the text... 'Neglected plantations will never grow to good timber unless the ground is cleared and the trees are cut back--the best means to this end is by fire, which, whilst destroying rough grass weeds and vermin, also puts back a rich dose of potash into the soil.'
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Raup
The Aleutian Islands are treeless except for some plantations of Spruce on Unalaska. Their principal vegetation types are meadow and heath-shrub communities. In some places thickets of Willow (Salix barclayi) are interspersed with the subalpine meadows. The southern and southern…
Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raup
Preliminary report of geological and botanical investigations carried out along the Alaska Highway between Dawson Creek and Whitehorse during the summer of 1943. The forest types are discussed in detail. It is concluded that stands of Aspen (Populus tremuloides) and Lodgepole…
Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palmer, Rouse
The Alaska tundra varies in width from a few miles to 200 miles along the Bering Sea and from 100 to 150 miles along the Arctic coast. Plant composition is largely lichens, grasses, sedges, alpines, and shrubs, of which 16 distinct vegetative types are described in this report.…
Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Birket-Smith, De Laguna
Notes on page 106 the use of fire for signaling by the Eyak people.
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hosking
From the summary and conclusions ... 'The low temperature ignition of soil organic matter has been investigated for temperatures ranging from 100 to 500º C. Appreciable losses are found to occur below 100º C.; up to 200º C. heating results essentially in the distillation of…
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peevy, Norman
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Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Millar, Smith, Brown
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Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weaver
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Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gisborne
Our job of fire control can be done, in fact has been done, in several ways: By brute strength and little attention to the conditions we are attempting to control; by observation of what is happening but with little or no understanding of why the fire is behaving as it does; or…
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS