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The device illustrates the most important factors of fire danger into a rating on a scale of 1 to 7 Item Info
- Title:
- The device illustrates the most important factors of fire danger into a rating on a scale of 1 to 7
- Photographer:
- Swan, Kenneth D. (Kenneth Dupee), 1887-1970
- Date Created:
- 1935
- Description:
- The device illustrated here, and shown in the ranger's hands on the last photograph, integrates the several most important factors of fire danger into a rating on a scale of 1 to 7. As illustrated here, the meter shows Class 4 danger for any day between June 16 and July 10 if there has been no recent lightning, if visibility is 8 miles, fuel moisture 5% to 7%, wind 8 to 12 m.p.h., and humidity above 15%.
- Location:
- Bonner County Priest River Experimental Forest Office
- Latitude:
- 48.35083333
- Longitude:
- -116.8344444
- Moscow Number:
- 3047
- 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:
- FireAlbum32
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "The device illustrates the most important factors of fire danger into a rating on a scale of 1 to 7", Experimental Forest and Savenac Nursery Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/expforest/items/expforsav365.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/