THE AOTHORS 



F. A. ALBINI is associated with the Intermountain Forest and Rat^e 



Experiment Station, Ogden, Utah 84401; located at the Inter- 

 mountain Station's Northern Forest Fire Laboratory, Missoula 

 Montana. 



G. N. KOROVIN AND E. H. GOROVAYA are associated with the 



Leningrad Forestry Research Institute, Mathematical Methods 

 Laboratory, Leningrad, Russia. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



Special thanks are due to Mr. Roger McCluskey of the Northern Forest 

 Fire Laboratory, whose invaluable assistance made possible the timely 

 completion of the numerical computations. 



