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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.
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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 (ISO Standard):
1935
Approximated Date:
yes
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, Idaho
Idaho County:
Bonner County
Features:
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

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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
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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.
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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