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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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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
[no description entered]
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Thom, Smith
[no description entered]
Year: 1934
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kopitke
[no description entered]
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Leopold, Stoddard
From: Aldo Leopold, Consulting Forester, Game Survey, Game Management Conservation Policy, Madison, Wisconsin. March 26, 1934. To: Mr. Herbert L. Stoddard, The Hall, Route 1, Tallahassee, Florida. Dear Herbert: I am sending you by express a yew bow, which I have been making for…
Year: 1934
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Stickel
[no description entered]
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Clausen, Keck, Hiesey
[no description entered]
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

Nelson, Sims
From the text: 'The insulating properties of the bark influence the relative resistance of various species of trees. Within a species the tree with the thickest bark is afforded the best protection. Other factors such as bark character and structure are also of significance.…
Year: 1934
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

Palmer
Description not entered.
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Griggs
[from the text] Transitions from one sort of vegetation to another-tension zones they have been called-are places of unusual interest to botanists. For along these lines, if they be in fact under tension from the struggles of diverse plants for ascendency, are afforded our best…
Year: 1934
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

[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

Starker
A rating scale of the resistance to fire would be helpful knowledge in the management of a forest in any region. The author has combined his wide knowledge of conditions with the best available information in the various regions of the United States. A comparison is made in…
Year: 1934
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Taylor
Liebig's Law of Minimum may be phrased as follows (see Chapman, ;31, p. 107): When a multiplicity of factors is present and only one is near the limits of toleration, this one factor will be the controlling one. The importance of extremes in environmental influences apparently…
Year: 1934
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

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

Boas
Author notes that the Kwakiutl Indians burned the woods often.
Year: 1934
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hutchings, Martin
[no description entered]
Year: 1934
Type: Document
Source: TTRS