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Two-way voice radio is used to broadcast fire danger measurements to field stations and to report to the Regional office Item Info
- Title:
- Two-way voice radio is used to broadcast fire danger measurements to field stations and to report to the Regional office
- Photographer:
- Swan, Kenneth D. (Kenneth Dupee), 1887-1970
- Date Created:
- 1935
- Description:
- The Forest Service, two-way voice radio is used to broadcast fire danger measurements to field stations and to report to the Regional office. As these reports are based on similar measurements at all stations they are fully comparable. This ranger is reporting Class 3 danger, resulting from a 7-mile wind, visibility over 8 miles, minimum humidity 21%, and a fuel moisture of 12%. J.B. Thompson pictured.
- Location:
- Bonner County Priest River Experimental Forest Office
- Latitude:
- 48.35083333
- Longitude:
- -116.8344444
- Moscow Number:
- 3046
- Forest Service Number:
- 309736
- Source:
- The sources for the photos in this collection were as follows: Priest River Experimental Forest, Moscow Foresty Sciences Lab, USDA-Forest Service Region 1 archive, University of Montana Library Gisborne Collection, and Ms. Susan Marsh
- Source Identifier:
- FireAlbum31
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Two-way voice radio is used to broadcast fire danger measurements to field stations and to report to the Regional office", Experimental Forest and Savenac Nursery Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/expforest/items/expforsav364.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Material produced by the United States Forest Service and is in Public Domain. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/