THE AUTHOR 



JAMES K. BROWN received his bachelor's degree from the 

 University of Minnesota in 1960, his master's from Yale University 

 in 1961, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1968; all 

 in Forestry. From 1961 to 1965, he did research on field measure- 

 ment of fuel properties and fire-danger rating systems while with 

 the Lake States Forest Experiment Station. In 1965 he transferred 

 to the Northern Forest Fire Laboratory, Missoula, Montana, where 

 he is responsible for research on the phj^sical properties of fuel. 

 This paper is based upon a portion of the author's dissertation for his 

 Ph.D. degree, which was entitled "Quantitative Description of 

 Certain Physical Properties of Ponderosa Pine Forest Floor and 

 Cheatgrass Fuels. " 



The author wishes to express his appreciation to Orval 

 Gastineau, Forest Research Technician at the Northern Forest Fire 

 Laboratory, who performed many of the field and laboratory meas- 

 urements and computations. 



