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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Topic

Year

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Information on 1947 Kenai fire

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

Wetlands of the United States: their extent and their value to waterfowl and other wildlife

Shaw, Fredine
[no description entered]
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Saline soils and brackish waters in management of wildlife, fish, and shrimp

Neely
[no description entered]
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Calcium content of soils and fertilizers in relation to composition and nutritive value of plants

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

Purvis, Davidson
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A Textbook of Heat - Part 1

Allen, Maxwell
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wood extractives and their significance to the pulp and paper industries

Hillis
[no description entered]
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Soil sterilization

Lawrence
[no description entered]
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Black willow dominates baldcypress-tupelo swamp eight years after clear cutting

Allen
[no description entered]
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of slash burning on some physical soil properties

Tarrant
[no description entered]
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ions in flames

Mukherjee, Fueno, Eyring, Ree
[no description entered]
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Diffusion flames

Wohl, Shipman
[no description entered]
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The size of flames from natural fires

Thomas
[no description entered]
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Cytogenetics and evolution of the grass family

Stebbins
[no description entered]
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

What is an adaptive trait?

Dobzhansky
[no description entered]
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Heat tolerance of slash and sand pine seedlings

Gentile, Johansen
[no description entered]
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Chemistry of combustion reactions

Minkoff, Tipper
[no description entered]
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Old-growth conversion also converts fire climate

Countryman
[no description entered]
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Seedling growth on burned soil

Vlamis, Biswell, Schultz
Ponderosa pine seedlings were used to determine availability of soil nutrients following prescribed burning. Soils were removed from the top 10 inch layer of burned and unburned plots and placed in pots which were planted with five pine seedlings per pot. Results obtained…
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Present and potential commercial timbers of the Caribbean with special reference to the West Indies, the Guianas, and British Honduras

Longwood
[no description entered]
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire as the first great force employed by man

Stewart
From the text...'The unrestricted burning of vegetation appears to be a universal culture trait among historic primitive peoples and therefore was probably employed by our remote ancestors. Archeology indicates that extensive areas of the Old and New Worlds were being burned…
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Radiative transfer effects in natural convection above fires

Murgai
This paper describes the results of examining the influence of radiative heat transfer on turbulent natural convection above fires in an atmosphere of constant potential temperature, under both the 'opaque' and 'transparent' approximations. It turns out that on the basis of the…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Some principles of visibility and their application to forest fire detection

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

Mathematical study of wood-burning mechanisms, prepared for publication in the AIChE journal

Weatherford
The mechanism of wood burning has been subjected to mathematical analysis. Extensive finite-difference computations for symmetrical and nonsymmetrical heating of flat wood slabs have provided results which appear to shed additional light upon the mechanisms leading to stable…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effect of exposure on slash inflammability

Williams
From the text... 'The final conclusion was, then that for the type of slash studied there is no need to adjust the slash hazard index for exposure through that part of the fire season when wildfires are more likely to occur but, if the ratings are to be used as guides in fall…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS