IMAGE
Top photo: Fire runs up these dead trees and jumps from snag to snag. Bottom photo: Close up view of the fuels on the ground beneath the snags and reproduction shown above. Item Info
- Title:
- Top photo: Fire runs up these dead trees and jumps from snag to snag. Bottom photo: Close up view of the fuels on the ground beneath the snags and reproduction shown above.
- Date Created:
- 1935
- Description:
- Top photo: "A dangerous fuel type. Fire runs up these dead trees and jumps from snag to snag." Bottom photo: "Close up view of the fuels on the ground beneath the snags and reproduction shown above." Caption: "When the dead twigs, branchwood, and duff on the ground become dry and inflammable men must arrive quickly if fires are to be controlled while still small. Measurements of the dryness of these fuels are more dependable than meteorological data for indicating the degree of inflammability."
- Location:
- Bonner County Priest Creek Experimental Forest
- Moscow Number:
- 3066
- 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:
- FireAlbum50
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Top photo: Fire runs up these dead trees and jumps from snag to snag. Bottom photo: Close up view of the fuels on the ground beneath the snags and reproduction shown above.", Experimental Forest and Savenac Nursery Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/expforest/items/expforsav387.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/