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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Smith, Hester
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Review of the relation of calcium to availability and absorption of certain trace elements by plants
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allen, Maxwell
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boerker
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Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alberston, Weaver
[no description entered]
Year: 1945
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
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
Blake
[no description entered]
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
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
Tikhomirov
Description not entered.
Year: 1935
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
Bell
[no description entered]
Year: 1935
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peevy, Norman
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hutchings, Martin
[no description entered]
Year: 1935
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