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The appearance of external links associated with a dataset does not constitute endorsement by the Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of external Web sites or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities, the Department of Commerce/NOAA does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this Department of Commerce/NOAA Web site."},"dataType":"FIRE HISTORY","investigators":"Heyerdahl, E.K.; Morgan, P.","investigatorDetails":[{"firstName":"Emily","lastName":"Heyerdahl","initials":"E.K.","orcId":null},{"firstName":"Penelope","lastName":"Morgan","initials":"P.","orcId":null}],"version":"1.0","funding":[{"fundingAgency":"US National Science Foundation","fundingGrant":"Integrative Graduate Education and Research Trainees 0014304"}],"studyNotes":"This site was sampled as part of a project to reconstruct historical fire regimes on the eastern edge of the Palouse Prairie-forest ecotone in Idaho.\r\n\r\nRing-boundary fire scars were assigned to the preceding calendar year.\r\n\r\nSeveral metadata files are provided with the FHX file.   -999 in any file indicates no data.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/supplemental/uswei001-wei-tree-info.csv provides information about the fire-scarred trees, e.g., species and location.\r\n\r\nThe samples at this site were collected by Max Nielsen-Pincus as part of his PhD research at the University of Idaho, but were not reported in his dissertation.\r\n\r\nSampled on private property","onlineResourceLink":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/28045","difMetadataLink":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/dif/xml/noaa-fire-28045.xml","isoMetadataLink":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/iso/xml/noaa-fire-28045.xml","originalSource":null,"dataTypeInformation":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology/fire-history","studyCode":"USWEI001","scienceKeywords":["PIPO","Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex C. Lawson","ponderosa pine","western yellow pine"],"reconstruction":"N","contributionDate":"2019-10-15","entryId":"noaa-fire-28045","earliestYearBP":368,"mostRecentYearBP":55,"earliestYearCE":1582,"mostRecentYearCE":1895,"publication":[{"author":{"name":"Morgan; P.; Heyerdahl, E.K.; Strand, E.K.; Bunting, S.C.; Riser II, J.P.; Abatzoglou, J.T.; Nielsen-Pincus, M.; Johnson, M."},"pubYear":2020,"title":"Fire and land cover change in the Palouse Prairie-forest ecotone, Washington and Idaho, USA","journal":"Fire Ecology","volume":"16","edition":null,"issue":"2","pages":null,"reportNumber":null,"citation":"Morgan; P.; Heyerdahl, E.K.; Strand, E.K.; Bunting, S.C.; Riser II, J.P.; Abatzoglou, J.T.; Nielsen-Pincus, M.; Johnson, M. 2020. Fire and land cover change in the Palouse Prairie-forest ecotone, Washington and Idaho, USA. 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We used fire and lightning records from 1992 to 2015 to interpret the role of people and lightning. Historically, the ecotone was a matrix of prairie with some pine savanna and forest (72%, 16%, and 12% of GLO points, respectively). The prairie and pine savanna have been largely converted to agriculture, perennial vegetation under the Conservation Reserve Program, or residential development while the forest has not been converted. Fires were historically frequent, occurring on average every 5 to 8 years at most sites. Lightning was not frequent but could likely have been sufficient to ignite fires that could spread readily given the rolling terrain and long fire season. Fire was far more frequent historically than currently. Lightning and people may ignite fires that spread readily in the future as conservation, restoration, and other land-use changes result in more continuous vegetation and hence fuel for fires. 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