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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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

Griggs
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Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Gardner
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Year: 1950
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

Purvis, Davidson
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Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Allen, Maxwell
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Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bailey
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Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Miller
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Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sauer
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Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hanson
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Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

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Year: 1938
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

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

Visher
From the text ... 'Two maps for each of the four seasons reveal sharp contrasts in the amount of rainfall received in various parts of the United States in wet seasons. Two other maps for each season show the percentage of the seasons which receive large totals, 15 and 20 inches…
Year: 1950
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

Bloomberg
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Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sauer
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Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Brown
[Excerpted from text] In 1949, 32 men died as a direct result of forest fires on national forest, State, and private lands. Most of them lost their lives because of extreme fire conditions which resulted in blow-ups. These comments will be confined to these special situations.…
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lutz
Description not entered.
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Furniss
Alaska Forest Insect Conditions Report for 1950. Areas investigated include south-central and interior Alaska along the road system and southeast Alaska
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lawrence, Hulbert
Lupinus spp. and Alnus crispa subsp. sinuata are the first plants to look healthy and grow rapidly on cold raw mineral deposits exposed through glacier recession. Lupin causes associated willows, grasses and fire-weed to bloom and to grow several times as fast as plants growing…
Year: 1950
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

Lloyd
Description not entered.
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS