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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

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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
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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/