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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Gardner
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Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kopitke
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bailey
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Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sauer
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Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Stickel
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hanson
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Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Clausen, Keck, Hiesey
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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

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

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

Bloomberg
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Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sauer
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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

Palmer
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Year: 1941
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

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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

Lutz
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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