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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Friedrich
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Year: 1955
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
Boerker
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Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alberston, Weaver
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Year: 1945
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
Campbell, Cassady
A first step in the management of a forest range is to inventory the forage--to determine the kind and amount of plants edible to livestock on various parts of the range. This information is needed to plan the proper number and distribution of animals and the season of grazing.…
Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weaver
[from the text] Wild fire has caused tremendous damage in the forests of America. To make the public more aware of such fact and of necessity of extreme care in use of fire, intensive educational campaigns are being conducted by various conservation and protection agencies and…
Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
McCambridge
Forest insect activity in Alaska shows upward trends or more diversity in active epidemic species. The black-headed budworm outbreak in southeast Alaska continued to diminish. Hemlock sawfly has become epidemic over a wide area. Bark beetle activity in interior Alaska increased…
Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
Contains detailed accounts of all aspects of moose biology, with particular emphasis on ecology.
Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woods
Recent advances in the knowledge of basic physiological processes, coupled with the discovery of the growth-regulator type of phytocides, have stimulated tremendous interest and work in methods of controlling weed plants. New advances are being made so rapidly that it is…
Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scott
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Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peevy, Norman
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Year: 1948
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