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Excerpt from The Seasonal Trends in Moisture Content, Ether Extractives, and Energy of Ponderosa Pine and Douglas-Fir Needles
Philpot found the same general situation in ponderosa pine in the central Sierra Nevada of California with moisture increasing through most of the fire season and then leveling off.3 A similar trend was also found for pinyon pine and juniper in Arizona and Utah (jameson and for five coniferous species in eastern Canada (van Wagner After finding high moisture contents in conifers in the Lake States during periods of high crown fire potential, Johnson (1966) concluded, In our search for a satisfactory explanation for crown fires, we must apparently look beyond needle moisture content.
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