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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Friedrich
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Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kopitke
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stickel
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Year: 1941
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
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
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
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
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
Tikhomirov
Description not entered.
Year: 1935
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palmer
Notes (Do Not Cite): Paired transects for lichen cover were established on 15 burned/unburned and grazed/ungrazed ranges aged 3 to 41 years, in the Fairbanks, Circle, Delta vicinity. The author estimates that 75% of the lichen range in the 'Fairbanks section' has burned over…
Year: 1941
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
Bell
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Year: 1935
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scott
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Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: TTRS