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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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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

Smith, Hester
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Purvis, Davidson
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Allen, Maxwell
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wurzburg
[no description entered]
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Harlan, Snyder, Celarier
[no description entered]
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Brauns
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Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

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Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Brown, Panshin, Forsaith
[no description entered]
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Nelson, Rollins
[no description entered]
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Olson
From the text:'In the summer of 1951, some exploratory tests were made to study rate of flame spread as influenced by specie characteristics. Results of these test are reported in this paper.'
Year: 1952
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

Randolph
[no description entered]
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Landrau, Samuels
[no description entered]
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wellhausen, Roberts, Hernandez, Mangelsdorf
[no description entered]
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Byram, Sauer, Fons, Arnold
Forest fuels are heterogeneous mixtures of a number of green and dead woody substances. Most common are leaves, grass, conifer needles, moss, bark, and wood. As a result of past fires, an area may also contain some charcoal. With the exception of charcoal, these materials are in…
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hakala
Description not entered.
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Samuels, Lugo-Lopez, Landrau
[no description entered]
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Peevy, Norman
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Davies
p. 13 '....while man is striving to maintain grassland, nature is striving towards development of forest' p. 13 'The pastoralist fells and burns to make way for grass, He leaves those trees which are too large and offer too arduous a task to fell and he leaves also those trees…
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Weaver
[no description entered]
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