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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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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

Gardner
[no description entered]
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Smith, Hester
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

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

Allen, Maxwell
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Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bailey
[no description entered]
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sauer
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Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hanson
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Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

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

Visher
From the text ... 'Two maps for each of the four seasons reveal sharp contrasts in the amount of rainfall received in various parts of the United States in wet seasons. Two other maps for each season show the percentage of the seasons which receive large totals, 15 and 20 inches…
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Michaelis
From the text... 'Neglected plantations will never grow to good timber unless the ground is cleared and the trees are cut back--the best means to this end is by fire, which, whilst destroying rough grass weeds and vermin, also puts back a rich dose of potash into the soil.'
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bloomberg
[no description entered]
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sauer
[no description entered]
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Brown
[Excerpted from text] In 1949, 32 men died as a direct result of forest fires on national forest, State, and private lands. Most of them lost their lives because of extreme fire conditions which resulted in blow-ups. These comments will be confined to these special situations.…
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lutz
Description not entered.
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Furniss
Alaska Forest Insect Conditions Report for 1950. Areas investigated include south-central and interior Alaska along the road system and southeast Alaska
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lawrence, Hulbert
Lupinus spp. and Alnus crispa subsp. sinuata are the first plants to look healthy and grow rapidly on cold raw mineral deposits exposed through glacier recession. Lupin causes associated willows, grasses and fire-weed to bloom and to grow several times as fast as plants growing…
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Cowan, Hoar, Hatter
Quantity of available palatable browse, vitamin content of available trees and shrubs, and moisture, protein, carbohydrate, ether extractive, and total mineral content, were determined for 3 stages in forest succession in British Columbia, in order to explain the cause of the…
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Peevy, Norman
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Weaver
[no description entered]
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Gisborne
Our job of fire control can be done, in fact has been done, in several ways: By brute strength and little attention to the conditions we are attempting to control; by observation of what is happening but with little or no understanding of why the fire is behaving as it does; or…
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS