# ****************************************************************
# ** Please acknowledge the contributors and the International  **
# ** Multiproxy Paleofire Database when using these data.       **
# ****************************************************************
#
# Site name: Black Hills Plot 202
# Investigator: Peter M. Brown
#
# Dating Method  : Crossdated
# Collectors     : Peter M. Brown
# Species name   : Pinus ponderosa
# Common name    : Ponderosa pine
# Country        : United States
# State          : South Dakota
# National Forest: Black Hills National Forest
# Latitude       : 43 42 N
# Longitude      : 103 48 W
# Lowest elev    : 1668 m
# Highest elev   : 1676 m
# Slope          : 15
# Aspect         : NE
# 
# Sample Storage Location: Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research, Inc.,
# Ft. Collins, CO
#
# Fire scar data from this site are available in FHX2 format at:
# ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/us202001.fhx
# along with associated metadata at:
# ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/us202001.txt
# and an accompanying site chronology diagram at:
# ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/diagrams/us202001.gif
#
# Methods: See Brown, P.M. 2001. Increment cores were removed from
# approximately 10 cm height above ground level on living trees and cross
# sections were cut from stumps, logs, and snags such that one surface was
# at an estimated 10 cm height above root crown. Cores sampled had to be
# no more than a field-estimated 10 years from pith. On increment cores
# or cross sections that did not include pith but inside ring curvature
# was visible, pith dates were estimated using overlaid concentric circles
# of varying diameters that take into account both average inside ring
# widths and an estimated distance to pith.
#
# Reference: Brown, P.M. 2001. Landscape Age Structure of Ponderosa Pine
# Stands, Limestone Plateau, Black Hills National Forest: Final Report.
# USDA Forest Service, Report CSS-11020399-23.
# A PDF copy of the text from this report is available at:
# ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/supplemental/BH_AGE_finalreport_text.PDF
# A PDF copy of the figures from this report is avaialbe at:
# ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/supplemental/BH_AGE_finalreport_figures.PDF
#
# Comments: Twenty-seven of 30 trees were dated from this plot.  Trees fell
# into two distinct groups for the most part, from 1622 to 1642 and from
# 1770 to 1778.  There was one tree (snag) that extended back to the early
# 1500s but did not have pith.  Fires were very frequent in this stand in
# the latter 1800s, and there was the pronounced gap in fire scars during
# the early 1700s similar to the Jewel Cave sites just to the north (Brown
# and Sieg 1996).
# 
        1       Tree ID
        2       Year
        3       Feature
1,1540,earliest ring
1,1845,fire scar undetermined
1,1846,last ring
2,1793,pith
2,1822,fire scar undetermined
2,1974,last ring
3,1777,pith
3,1874,last ring
4,1786,pith
4,1808,fire scar dormant postition
4,1988,bark
7,1630,pith
7,1830,last ring
8,1629,pith
8,1672,fire scar latewood
8,1684,fire scar dormant postition
8,1711,last ring
9,1635,pith
9,1672,fire scar latewood
9,1785,fire scar latter earlywood
9,1822,fire scar latewood
9,1845,fire scar latewood
9,1856,fire scar latter earlywood
9,1863,fire scar undetermined
9,1870,fire scar undetermined
9,1871,last ring
10,1636,pith
10,1672,fire scar latewood
10,1684,fire scar undetermined
10,1822,fire scar latewood
10,1834,last ring
11,1642,pith
11,1652,fire scar middle earlywood
11,1672,fire scar undetermined
11,1673,last ring
12,1630,pith
12,1672,fire scar undetermined
12,1845,fire scar undetermined
12,1846,last ring
13,1776,pith
13,1785,fire scar latter earlywood
13,1949,bark
14,1634,pith
14,1750,fire scar dormant postition
14,1763,fire scar latewood
14,1785,fire scar middle earlywood
14,1802,fire scar latter earlywood
14,1822,fire scar latewood
14,1845,fire scar latter earlywood
14,1856,fire scar latter earlywood
14,1870,fire scar undetermined
14,1871,last ring
15,1622,pith
15,1631,fire scar undetermined
15,1672,fire scar dormant postition
15,1684,fire scar dormant postition
15,1802,fire scar dormant postition
15,1845,fire scar undetermined
15,1856,fire scar undetermined
15,1890,fire scar undetermined
15,1891,last ring
16,1635,pith
16,1822,fire scar undetermined
16,1845,fire scar latter earlywood
16,1856,fire scar latewood
16,1863,fire scar undetermined
16,1870,fire scar undetermined
16,1871,last ring
17,1623,pith
17,1854,last ring
18,1775,pith
18,2000,bark
19,1770,pith
19,1822,fire scar latewood
19,2000,bark
20,1777,pith
20,2000,bark
21,1777,pith
21,2000,bark
22,1635,pith
22,1672,fire scar latewood
22,1684,fire scar dormant postition
22,1697,fire scar middle earlywood
22,1763,fire scar latter earlywood
22,1785,fire scar middle earlywood
22,1802,fire scar dormant postition
22,1822,fire scar latter earlywood
22,1845,fire scar undetermined
22,1856,fire scar undetermined
22,1870,fire scar latewood
22,1890,fire scar undetermined
22,1891,last ring
23,1661,pith
23,1672,fire scar dormant postition
23,1697,fire scar undetermined
23,1748,last ring
24,1774,pith
24,2000,bark
25,1777,pith
25,2000,bark
26,1777,pith
26,2000,bark
27,1802,pith
27,2000,bark
28,1812,last ring
28,1822,fire scar undetermined
28,2000,bark
30,1628,pith
30,1672,fire scar latewood
30,1684,fire scar undetermined
30,1785,fire scar undetermined
30,1798,last ring