THE AUTHOR 



CHARLES W. PHILPOT is a Research Forester in the Fire Physics 

 research work unit at Missoula, Montana. His B. S. and M. S. 

 degrees in Forestry were obtained in 1961 and 1962, respectively, 

 from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his 

 Ph. D. in Plant Science-Forestry in 1970 from the University of 

 Montana. He was assigned to the Pacific Southwest Forest and 

 Range Experiment Station at Berkeley from 1961 to 1963 and to the 

 Riverside Forest Fire Laboratory in Riverside, California, from 

 1963 to 1966. In 1966 he transferred to Intermountain Station's 

 Northern Forest Fire Laboratory at Missoula, where he initiated 

 the first fuel chemistry studies. He has shown the chemical com- 

 position of plant materials, pyrolytic reactions, and the behavior 

 of the extractives to be important in fire spread, intensity, and 

 fuel ecology. 



I wish to thank Professor F. Shafizadeh, Professor of Chemistry 

 and Forestry, and Dr. G. McGinnis, Research Associate, both of 

 the University of Montana,for their cooperation and help on this study. 



