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Rain gage near office. Gisborne with dipstick Item Info

Title:
Rain gage near office. Gisborne with dipstick
Photographer:
Swan, Kenneth D. (Kenneth Dupee), 1887-1970
Date Created:
1937
Description:
Rain gage near office. Gisborne with dipstick. The inexpensive, forest service designed, rain gage has been tested for 3 years at PR in comparison with more expenseive, standard rain gagues and has been found to be of sufficient accuracy for fire control use. With 450 of these gages in use in Region One, a savings of more than $3000 has been effected by use of the cheaper gage.
Location:
Bonner County Priest River Experimental Station Weather Station
Latitude:
48.35111111
Longitude:
-116.8352778
Forest Service Number:
350678
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:
WeatherSta3
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg

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Preferred Citation:
"Rain gage near office. Gisborne with dipstick", Experimental Forest and Savenac Nursery Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/expforest/items/expforsav784.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/