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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Miller
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hutchison
Alaska's romantic past includes the magnetic lure of gold; the mad stampede to strike it rich; success and heartbreak; men and animals battling snow, ice, spring breakup, insects, and loneliness; dog teams at work and on desperate missions; river steamers battling the Yukon;…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murray, Countryman
Heat-resistant anemometers have been developed for measuring horizontal and vertical air flow in fire behavior studies. The anemometers will continue to produce data as long as the anemometer body is less than 650°F. They can survive brief immersion in flame without major…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Welker, Pipkin, Sliepcevich
A simplified and improved correlation for the drag coefficient of windblown natural gas flames is given. Experimental results leading to the correlation were obtained in a low-speed wind tunnel specifically designed for such studies at the University of Oklahoma North Campus.
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Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keetch, Byram
The moisture content of the upper soil, as well as that of the covering layer of duff, has an important effect on the fire suppression effort in forest and wildland areas. In certain forested areas of the United States, fires in deep duff fuels are of particular concern to the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Breuer
Thermocouples have proved valuable in research conducted by the Fire Physics Project at the Northern Forest Fire Laboratory because they can measure several important fire variables besides flame and convection column temperatures. These include rate of spread and flame…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Johnston
We stood with the gray-haired ranger on a high ridge in Oregon overlooking a thousand square miles of forest. [from the text] The night before, my GEOGRAPHIC colleague Jay Johnston and I had watched a particularly violent thunderstorm of the type that plagued the Northwest in…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The mature forest tree is an outstanding example of the interaction between the hereditary characteristics of an organism and its environment. The tiny embryo of the seed of the giant sequoia contains the potential to develop into the most majestic of plants. But if the…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daubenmire
This chapter reviews the ecology of fire in grasslands. It describes several generalizations such as environmental alterations, effects on species of plants, effects on vegetation, and associated animals. The grassland essentially includes any herb-dominated vegetation, herb…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
King, Packham
The main functions of water in firefighting are outlined in this report and an additive which improves its usefulness is described; the effect of the additive is to reduce the rate of evaporation in normal atmospheric conditions, without materially decreasing evaporation when…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson, Anderson
Small plot and aerial spray trials have shown that nonsprouting greenleaf manzanita in the Cascade Range can be killed by a single aerial application of 3 pounds of 2, 4-D per acre. Conifers planted amid the dead shrubs should be caged in hardware cloth cylinders for protection…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pase, Glendening
[no description entered]
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
Observations were made on Tamiasciurus hudsonicus in mature Picea glauca forest during 2 years of cone crop failure. For the first winter an adequate supply of old Spruce cones cached in previous years was available. The second crop failure brought about a 67% drop in the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
The average annual linear rates of growth of Cladonia alpestris, C. rangiferina and C. sylvatica on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, were determined to be 5.0, 5.3, and 5.4 mm, respectively. These averages are higher than those of northern Canada and some areas in the U.S.S.R.…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kryuchkov
Description not entered.
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002(https://www.frames.gov/rcs/18000/18093.html)]This paper deals with investigations which concentrated on certain aspects of the direct and indirect effects of surface fire on the soil in the jack pine barren community in northern Ontario…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
Reviews the subject of lightning fires in N. America, and designates 7 lightning fire bioclimatic regions: southern Pine forest, eastern deciduous forest, central grasslands, boreal forest, tundra, western mountain complex, and tropical rain forest.
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weeden
Description not entered.
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simard
From the introduction (page 2): 'The critical factor as to whether the duration or amount of precipitation is limiting with respect to absorption of water is the maximum rate of absorption by the fuels. The purpose of the present study is to determine the rate at which various…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simard
From the introduction (page 5): 'The present paper is the first of a series dealing with forest fuel moisture. The ultimate purpose of the study is to provide regression equations for estimating forest fuel moisture directly from antecedent and current weather observations. This…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wahrhaftig
A classification and brief description with a discussion of high-latitude physiographic processes. Includes maps and photographs. Alaska occupies the great northwestern peninsula of North America, which slopes and drains westward to the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Most of the State…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Patric, Black
From introduction: 'Long ago, Fernow wrote concerning 'the desirability of utilizing the Weather Bureau, the various agricultural experiment stations, and other forces, in forming a systematic service of water stations, and in making a careful survey of the conditions of water…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kelsall
Description not entered.
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kayll
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002 (https://www.frames.gov/catalog/18093)] Through a review of literature, the essential role of fire in the boreal forest as a natural regulatory agent of composition and succession is discussed in terms of plants, soils, and animals. In…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gregory, Haack
Description not entered.
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES