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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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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

Brown, Marco
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Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Byram
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Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Stickel
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Halstead
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Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Williams
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Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

La
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Year: 1958
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

Hornby, Grisborne
Detailed analysis of the forest fire experience for a period of years is vital to an accurate appraisal of forest protection needs in any region. Such an analysis must include: 1. A survey of the property values to be protected, and the isolation of the most important features…
Year: 1935
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

Cringan
In this paper I wish to review certain facets of the role of fire in the ecology of forest game, then go on to speculate about how forest fire protection may influence populations of forest wildlife.© The Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada. Abstract…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Browne
[no description entered]
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mangelsdorf
[no description entered]
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

McClure
[no description entered]
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Blake
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Year: 1935
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Buck, Fons
Preliminary investigations in the detection of forest fires at the California Forest and Range Experiment Station were based on the assumption that the visibility of smoke columns in the field would vary as the visibility of the landscape with varying conditions of atmospheric…
Year: 1935
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Palmer
Description not entered.
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Basham
This study has defined actual reductions in recoverable merchantable volumes per acre in fire-killed pine stands. It has demonstrated that, when more than two years have elapsed, reductions in yield of considerable magnitude due to deterioration as a direct or indirect result of…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Siggers
Piling and burning reduced fires hazard immediately, but costs twice as much as lopping and scattering, and creates unfavorable soil conditions under piles. Neither lopping and scattering nor piling have enough advantage over pulling tops to defray the cost. THere is little fire…
Year: 1935
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

[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

Applequist
The determination of total tree age is usually based on ring counts of increment cores which ideally should pass through tree center. For several reasons the borer does not always "hit the pith," and it becomes necessary to estimate how many rings were missed. The pith locator…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES