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Author
Bennett, W. D.
Title
Control of Lightning-Caused Forest Fires.
Coporate
Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada, Montreal, Canada
Report
Woodlands Research Index No. 106, 1958, 33 p.
Keywords
forest fires | lightning | mapping | fire suppression | weather effects
Identifiers
development of thunderclouds and lightning; mechanisms of thunder and lightning; conditions favorable to the starting of lightning fires; recognition and mapping of areas susceptible to lightning fires; cloud seeding; weather modification; cloud sculpturing
Abstract
A Forest Fire Research Conference was held at Charlo, N.B. August 12-13, 1957. The some 100 suggestions for research into the control of forest fires, which resulted from that conference, were subsequently processed and analyzed by the Woodlands Section (C.P.P.A.) Forest Fire Protection Committee. At a meeting of that Committe on November 15, 1957, five of these projects were selected as an immediate objective.