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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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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

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

The relation of soil acidity to the decomposition of organic residues

Thom, Smith
[no description entered]
Year: 1934
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

Leopold pers. comm.: Concerns the friendship between Leopold and Stoddard and yew bow presented to Stoddard by Leopold

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

Fire wounds have close relation to exterior discoloration of bark

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

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

The effect of fire on a hardwood plantation

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

The edge of the forest in Alaska and the reasons for its position

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

Fire resistance in the forest

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

Significance of extreme or intermittent conditions in distribution of species and management of natural resources, with a restatement of Liebig's law of minimum

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

The effect of forest burning and pasturing in the Ozarks on the water absorption of forest soils

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

Geographic Names of the Kwakiutl Indians

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

Influence of composition of plant materials on properties of the decomposed residues

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

Further studies on the influence of the carbon-nitrogen ratios of organic matter on rate of decomposition in the soil

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

Some uses of activated carbon in contratoxification of plant growth-regulators

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

Fundamentals of fire behavior

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