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fuel bygrograph Item Info

Title:
fuel bygrograph
Photographer:
Swan, Kenneth D. (Kenneth Dupee), 1887-1970
Date Created:
1935
Description:
A relatively new product of fire research called a fuel bygrograph. This instrument produces continuous record of (1) wood moisture, (2) duff moisture, and (3) wind velocity. The unique design ws originated by the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory. An electric buzzer shakes the instrument gently once each hour to eliminate any inaccuracy due to the drag of the pens on the paper. G.M. Jemison pictured.
Location:
Bonner County Priest River Experimental Station Clear Cut inflammability station
Latitude:
48.34416667
Longitude:
-116.8413889
Moscow Number:
3062
Forest Service Number:
309742
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:
FireAlbum46
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg

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Source
Preferred Citation:
"fuel bygrograph", Experimental Forest and Savenac Nursery Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/expforest/items/expforsav383.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/