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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Shaw, Fredine
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Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bourn
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kopitke
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kittredge
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Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tarrant
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Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chang
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Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kendeigh
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Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stickel
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Little, Dorman
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Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stebbins
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Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gentile, Johansen
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Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Countryman
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Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vlamis, Biswell, Schultz
Ponderosa pine seedlings were used to determine availability of soil nutrients following prescribed burning. Soils were removed from the top 10 inch layer of burned and unburned plots and placed in pots which were planted with five pine seedlings per pot. Results obtained…
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clausen, Keck, Hiesey
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stewart
From the text...'The unrestricted burning of vegetation appears to be a universal culture trait among historic primitive peoples and therefore was probably employed by our remote ancestors. Archeology indicates that extensive areas of the Old and New Worlds were being burned…
Year: 1956
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
Scesa, Sauer
From the Summary ... 'The transfer theory is applied to the problem of atmospheric diffusion of momentum and heat induced by line and point sources of heat on the surface of the earth. In order that the validity of the approximations of the boundary layer theory be realized, the…
Year: 1954
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
Sampson, Schultz
From the text... 'Large-scale efforts to control undesirable woody species has awaited mass production of machinery to do the job effectively and economically. Our modern age of large-scale operations tends to overlook, however, that many small-scale efforts using homemade hand…
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sidle
Before examining the impacts of forest management practices on surface erosion, it is appropriate to ask the question 'Why should we be concerned with surface erosion?' One of the most important impacts of surface erosion on forest lands is the decrease in site productivity…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrows, Schaefer, MacCready
This report describes the factors which led to the establishment of Project Skyfire and presents the first results of its operation. Skyfire is a program designed to acquire basic scientific information about lightning fires in western forests, the atmospheric and cloud…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS