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Memorandum for District Forester: Selway Fire 1919 Item Info
- Title:
- Memorandum for District Forester: Selway Fire 1919
- Creator:
- Howell, C. F.
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1919-09-01
- Description:
- This document, authored by Chas F. Howell, discusses how the Selway's fire suppression plan should adapt in the coming years, based on the outcome of the last four fire seasons, from 1916 to 1919. Howell discusses each specific fire season and sometimes specific fires at length, using the Service's mistakes as evidence for the changes he suggests. This report is especially interesting when you consider that 1910, 1914, and 1919 were three of the area's worst fire seasons ever, and as such fire suppression policy in the area during the 1910s in general was in a wildly fluctuating state from year to year. This document gives an interesting glimpse into that process of rapid change and response.
- Subjects:
- fire suppression fire management fire
- Location:
- Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (Idaho and Mont.)
- Latitude:
- 46.116667
- Longitude:
- -114.933333
- Publisher:
- Unpublished
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/
- Source:
- Missoula Northern Region Archives
- Source Identifier:
- 10
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Memorandum for District Forester: Selway Fire 1919", The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness History Project, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/sbw/items/sbw174.html
Rights
- Rights:
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/