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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Friedrich
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Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kittredge
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chang
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kendeigh
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Little, Dorman
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scesa, Sauer
From the Summary ... 'The transfer theory is applied to the problem of atmospheric diffusion of momentum and heat induced by line and point sources of heat on the surface of the earth. In order that the validity of the approximations of the boundary layer theory be realized, the…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sidle
Before examining the impacts of forest management practices on surface erosion, it is appropriate to ask the question 'Why should we be concerned with surface erosion?' One of the most important impacts of surface erosion on forest lands is the decrease in site productivity…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell, Cassady
A first step in the management of a forest range is to inventory the forage--to determine the kind and amount of plants edible to livestock on various parts of the range. This information is needed to plan the proper number and distribution of animals and the season of grazing.…
Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrows, Schaefer, MacCready
This report describes the factors which led to the establishment of Project Skyfire and presents the first results of its operation. Skyfire is a program designed to acquire basic scientific information about lightning fires in western forests, the atmospheric and cloud…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shantz
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stelfox
'In trials at Swift Current, Saskatchewan and Lacome, Alberta, the following treatments were used: spring burning and no burning, row spacings 1, 2, 3 and 4 ft. apart and no manure, ammonium phosphate (16-12-0 NPK) at 135 lb. per ac., ammonium phosphate at 250 lb. per ac., and…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangelsdorf
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cramer
[Excerpted from text] Violent or erratic fire behavior often develops as a complete surprise even to the more experienced fire fighters. Such behavior usually is not completely explained and is frequently dismissed with the remark that the fire suddenly "blew up." Unusual fire…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arnold, Buck
"Blow-up" fires are defined as those which exhibit violent build-up in fire intensity or rate of spread sufficient to prevent direct control by efficient application of conventional firefighting methods. Blow-ups are an increasingly important cause of large fires and can arise…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Byram
A study of atmospheric conditions related to blowup fires.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Weaver
[from the text] Wild fire has caused tremendous damage in the forests of America. To make the public more aware of such fact and of necessity of extreme care in use of fire, intensive educational campaigns are being conducted by various conservation and protection agencies and…
Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCambridge
Forest insect activity in Alaska shows upward trends or more diversity in active epidemic species. The black-headed budworm outbreak in southeast Alaska continued to diminish. Hemlock sawfly has become epidemic over a wide area. Bark beetle activity in interior Alaska increased…
Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCambridge
Reports on black-headed budworm activity in southeast Alaska, spruce beetle on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska and larch beetle along the Kuskokwim River in interior Alaska during the summer of 1954.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Banfield
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
Contains detailed accounts of all aspects of moose biology, with particular emphasis on ecology.
Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chatelain
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woods
Recent advances in the knowledge of basic physiological processes, coupled with the discovery of the growth-regulator type of phytocides, have stimulated tremendous interest and work in methods of controlling weed plants. New advances are being made so rapidly that it is…
Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: TTRS