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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cramer
[Excerpted from text] Violent or erratic fire behavior often develops as a complete surprise even to the more experienced fire fighters. Such behavior usually is not completely explained and is frequently dismissed with the remark that the fire suddenly "blew up." Unusual fire…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arnold, Buck
"Blow-up" fires are defined as those which exhibit violent build-up in fire intensity or rate of spread sufficient to prevent direct control by efficient application of conventional firefighting methods. Blow-ups are an increasingly important cause of large fires and can arise…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Byram
A study of atmospheric conditions related to blowup fires.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Heusser
[from the text] The science of palynology has come a long way since the presentation of the first paper on modern pollen analysis by Lennart von Post at Oslo in 1916. Like many sciences it was initiated as a rather narrow discipline and consisted largely of interpretation of…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adams
[no description entered]
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilde, Krause
Based on an extensive survey of 200 areas and a detailed examination of soil and forest composition and increment on 37 sample plots, a description is given, with profile and data on soil properties, of skeletal (lithosols and regosols), alluvial, melanized raw humus, micro-…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
From introduction: 'Alaska has a crucial forest fire problem. Since organized fire control began in 1940, areas burned have averaged 1.2 million acres annually. The largest loss of actual record occurred in 1957 when fires swept over 5 million acres of public lands. It is…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Molnar, McMinn
Basal scarring, a conspicuous abnormality of western white pine (Pinus monticola Dougl.) and its associated species in the Interior region of British Columbia, was found to be chiefly attributable to injury by bears, infections of Armillaria mellea (Vahl ex Fr.) Quel., fire,…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutz
Description not entered.
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCambridge
Reports on black-headed budworm activity in southeast Alaska, spruce beetle on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska and larch beetle along the Kuskokwim River in interior Alaska during the summer of 1954.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Banfield
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutz
From introduction: 'The boreal forest of Alaska represents the northwestern portion of a great transcontinental forest belt that extends through more than 110 degrees longitude, from Newfoundland and the Labrador coast in Canada to the limits of tree growth on the Seward…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chatelain
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dodds
Presents the results of a 3-year study. Both species feed extensively on herbaceous plants in summer, and depend on woody plants in winter; they browse most intensively up to a height of 6 ft. and to a high degree of intensity on the species selected. Moose feed most heavily on…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landrau, Lugo-Lopez, Samuels, Silva
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ahlgren, Ahlgren
A review of literature, with chief reference to North America, but including also much literature from other parts of the world, under the main heads: effects of fire on soil (moisture relations, texture, temperature during and after burning, fertility, and chemical composition…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS