THE AUTHORS 



ROBERT W. MUTCH received his bachelor's degree in 

 biology from Albion College, Michigan, in 1956 and his 

 master's degree in forestry from the University of 

 Montana in 1959. His interest in fire dates back to two 

 seasons with the smokejumper project in Missoula in 

 1954-1955. He was superintendent of the Priest River 

 Experimental Forest in northern Idaho from 1958 to 

 1960. Since 1960, he has been engaged in wildland 

 fuels research at the Northern Forest Fire Laboratory. 



ORVAL W. GASTINEAU, JR. received his bachelor's de- 

 gree in forestry from the University of Montana in 

 1970. From 1964 to 1966 he was a smokejumper at the 

 Aerial Fire Depot in Missoula, Montana. Since 1966, 

 he has been in wildland fuels research and computer 

 programming at the Northern Forest Fire Laboratory. 



The authors gratefully acknowledge the support which Richard Barney, Alaska Fire Control 

 Methods Project, Institute of Northern Forestry, College, Alaska, gave to this study. 



