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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 26 - 42 of 42
Jameson
Juniper trees are invading grasslands and greatly reducing grass production on large ares in western United States. Grass fires are being tested among other methods for the control of small junipers. To test effectiveness of grass fres in killing one-seed juniper (Juniperus…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt
Experienced fire control men who have used the water rake believe it is a practicable and worthwhile water-saving device. It is recommended for use where water is scarce and in deep duff where water penetration is slow. One water rake is recommended for each tanker unit in areas…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ward
[no description entered]
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram
[no description entered]
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Levickij, Pis'merov
Describes three types of clear-felled area (Calamagrostis arundinacea, Epilobium angustifolium on burns; mixed grasses and broadleaved herbs), and suitable ways of re-establishing conifers on them.
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McKell, Wilson, Kay
Medusahead (Elymus caput-medusae L.) matures later in the spring than most associated species, and has a seed head moisture content of above 30 per cent for approximately a month after leaves and stems begin to dry. High temperature is more injurious to seed viability when seed…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deckers, van Tiggelen
A complete study of ionization in flames involves solution of the problems: (1) identification of the ions (as yet nothing definite is known about their nature); (2) evaluation of the ion concentration (even now there is still some disagreement concerning the exact amount of…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fons, Clements, Elliott, George
The general objectives of this project are to evaluate the effects of the independent variables of fuel, fuel bed, fuel base, and atmospheric conditions on the dependent variables such as rate of burning, flame size, rate of energy released, and others which are concerned with…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Byram, Martin
[Excerpted from text] Most experienced firefighters have encountered fire whirlwinds. These whirls, or "fire devils" as they are sometimes called, range in size from small twisters a foot or two in diameter up to violent whirls equal to small tornadoes in size and intensity.…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Spalt, Reifsnyder
It has long been obvious to foresters that trees of different ages, and of different species but the same age, respond differently to the heat of a forest fire. Ability of plants to survive a given degree of exposure to fire depends on such factors as location of heat -sensitive…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Komarek
Fire ecology can be defined as the study of fire as it affects the environment and the interrelationships of plants and animals therein. It is assumed that through natural selection primarily, over long periods of time, plants and animals have developed 'adaptations' that allow…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Komarek
Description not entered.
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Downing
This infestation covers a gross timbered acreage of 1,152,000 acres or 1,800 square miles. The small number of samples and the limited number of sampling locations were sufficient to indicate a decided downward trend of the infestation. Tree mortality appears to have been…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Downing
Forest insect activity in most parts of Alaska was at a low level. Hemlock sawfly activity in southeast Alaska subsided completely and the infestation north and west of Fort Yukon caused by Ips interpunctus has declined sharply. Spruce beetle was locally active on the Kenai…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolfhard, Burgess
At least 600 papers were published during 1956 which deal with combustion, less than half of which could reasonably be reviewed within the allotted space. Since an arbitrary selection was necessary, the important subject of detonation and shock waves has been omitted entirely;…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS