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Report by Elers Koch on the causes of the 1919 Selway fire(s). Item Info
- Title:
- Report by Elers Koch on the causes of the 1919 Selway fire(s).
- Creator:
- Koch, Elers
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1919-10-23
- Description:
- A report by Elers Koch (the ranger immortalized in Forty Years A Forester) on the massively destructive fire season of 1919. Koch suggests what he sees to be necessary changes to the region's fire-suppression policy, using firsthand experience fighting the fires of 1919 as his evidence.
- Subjects:
- fire suppression fire management fire
- Section:
- Wilderness Pages
- Location:
- Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (Idaho and Mont.)
- Idaho County:
- Idaho County
- Latitude:
- 46.116667
- Longitude:
- -114.933333
- Publisher:
- Unpublished
- Source:
- Missoula Northern Region Archives
- Original URL:
- https://sbw.lib.uidaho.edu/pages.html
- Regional Office Number:
- Fire: Selway
- Source Identifier:
- 11
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Language:
- eng
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Report by Elers Koch on the causes of the 1919 Selway fire(s).", The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness History Project, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/sbw/items/sbw175.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/