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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Kopitke
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stickel
[no description entered]
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
McNaughton
From the text:'The purpose of this mimeograph is to indicate the importance of time in the effects of heat upon wood rather than to present specific values for ignition temperatures or to recommend methods for determining such tempertures.'
Year: 1944
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
Blake
[no description entered]
Year: 1935
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coukos
[no description entered]
Year: 1944
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
Sauer
[from the text] No apology is needed for scrutinizing any part of the history of man, anywhere, if insight can be gained into culture processes. Indeed, the study of human populations is regarded as having some relation in kind and in method to the general problem of organic…
Year: 1944
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McAlister
A direct method for determining soil drought resistance to supplement field tests is described. Grass seedlings are grown for 6 to 8 weeks in the greenhouse and then given a soil drought treatment lasting from 6 to 9 days by placing them in a chamber designed to maintain…
Year: 1944
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tikhomirov
Description not entered.
Year: 1935
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Description not entered.
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
Bell
[no description entered]
Year: 1935
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hutchings, Martin
[no description entered]
Year: 1935
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson
[no description entered]
Year: 1944
Type: Document
Source: TTRS