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From the text...'Preliminary investigations in the detection of forest fires at the California Forest and Range Experiment Station were based on the assumption that the visibility of smoke columns in the field would vary as the visibility of the landscape with varying conditions…
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Year: 1935
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: experimental fires, fire danger rating, fire management, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis
Preliminary investigations in the detection of forest fires at the California Forest and Range Experiment Station were based on the assumption that the visibility of smoke columns in the field would vary as the visibility of the landscape with varying conditions of atmospheric…
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Year: 1935
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire detection, laboratory experiments, smoke columns
[from the text] Forest fires in the United States have caused an average annual loss of about 70 human lives, the destruction of trees worth at the very least $25,000,000, and the loss of stock, crops, buildings, and other improvements to the amount of many millions more. To…
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Year: 1912
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire damage, area burned, fire cause, economic impacts