# Heyerdahl fire data from Beaver Creek - IMPD USRBC001 #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program # National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # Template Version 4.0 # Encoding: UTF-8 # NOTE: Please cite original publication, NOAA Landing Page URL, dataset and publication DOIs (where available), and date accessed when using downloaded data. If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, study title, NOAA Landing Page URL, and date accessed. # # Description/Documentation lines begin with # # Data lines have no # # # NOAA_Landing_Page: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/33245 # Landing_Page_Description: NOAA Landing Page of this file's parent study, which includes all study metadata. # # Study_Level_JSON_Metadata: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/json/noaa-firehistory-33245.json # Study_Level_JSON_Description: JSON metadata of this file's parent study, which includes all study metadata. # # Data_Type: Fire History # # Dataset_DOI: # # Science_Keywords: # #-------------------- # Resource_Links # # Data_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/usrbc001.fhx # Data_Download_Description: Fire Scar Data; Fire Scar in Fire History Exchange Format (FHX2) # # Data_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/usrbc001-noaa.txt # Data_Download_Description: Fire Scar Metadata; Fire scar metadata in NOAA Template format # # Supplemental_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/fire-hist-graphs/usrbc001-fire-hist-graph.pdf # Supplemental_Description: Supplemental: Fire History Graph; Fire history graph in PDF format # # Supplemental_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/fire-hist-graphs/usrbc001-fire-hist-graph.png # Supplemental_Description: Supplemental: Fire History Graph; Fire history graph in PNG format # # Supplemental_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/supplemental/usrbc001-RBC_fire-scarred_trees.csv # Supplemental_Description: Supplemental Data; Fire-scarred trees that were sampled within and outside of plots, including species, tree status, and location, in CSV format # # Supplemental_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/supplemental/usrbc001-RBC_plot.csv # Supplemental_Description: Supplemental Data; Plot data including physical characteristics and LANDFIRE information for 1860 and 2000, in CSV format #-------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 03/01/2021 #-------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 03/01/2021 #-------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Heyerdahl fire data from Beaver Creek - IMPD USRBC001 #-------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Heyedahl, E.K.,;Brown, P.M.;Kitchen, S.G. #-------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: This site was sampled as part of a broader study to characterize spatial and temporal variation in historical fire regimes as well as forest structure and composition in Utah and eastern Nevada by sampling fire scars and tree demography across broad gradients in elevation and forest type. We systematically sampled 14 sites (13 in Utah (ABM, BCL, BMC, BOM, BRO, EPH, HNR, MUR, PSG, RBC, UFR, WCH, and WUN) and 1 in eastern Nevada (WAH)). In addition, we collected similar data non-systematically at six sites in Utah (INC, MON, OWP, RAY, and TVP). These 19 sites include a broad range of forest types (from pinyon-juniper woodlands to spruce-fir forests) and fire regime types. We also used data from all these sites in a study of the climate drivers of regional fire years (Brown et al. 2008). We generally assigned ring-boundary scars to the following calendar year at this site and our other sites in southern Utah. Occasionally however, we adjusted the year of ring-boundary scars based on the year and intra-ring position of other scars at the site. All such changes are listed below. All such changes are listed below. # # site,plot,tree,initial year,re-assigned year # RBC,09B,40,1765,1766 # RBC,09B,41,1821,1822 # RBC,10A,41,1664,1663 # RBC,10B,45,1696,1695 # RBC,10B,45,1835,1836 # RBC,10C,14,1686,1685 # RBC,11C,17,1854,1855 # RBC,11C,41,1779,1780 # RBC,11D,40,1856,1855 # RBC,12C,40,1856,1855 # RBC,12C,42,1665,1666 # RBC,12D,44,1856,1855 # RBC,12D,45,1654,1653 # RBC,12E,41,1856,1855 # RBC,13F,4,1856,1855 # RBC,13F,40,1856,1855 # RBC,17G,47,1900,1901 # RBC,21I,41,1713,1712 # RBC,21I,41,1730,1729 # RBC,22J,21,1856,1855 # RBC,22J,21,1856,1855 # # # # Sample Storage Location: Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona and Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research # 2901 Moore Lane, Ft. Collins, CO 80526 USA # Peter M. Brown (pmb@rmtrr.org, 970-229-9557) # Dating Method: crossdated # Related ITRDB_Chronology: Not Applicable # # Fire scar data from this site are available in FHX2 format at: # https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/usrbc001.fhx # along with associated metadata, including links to supplemental information files and Fire History Graphs, at: # https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/firescar/northamerica/usrbc001-noaa.txt # # Establishment date data from this site are available in CSV format at: # https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/establishment/northamerica/usrbc001.dat # along with associated metadata at: # https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/firehistory/establishment/northamerica/usrbc001-estab-noaa.txt # # Establishment Date Data Comments: First and last ring dates on trees at least 20 cm in diameter. Also includes estimates of pith dates, distance and azimuth from plot center, and tree status. # # Extended supplemental information file descriptions (where applicable): # usrbc001-RBC_fire-scarred_trees.csv: Contains information on fire-scarred trees that were sampled within and outside of plots, including species, tree status, and location. # usrbc001-RBC_plot.csv: Contains date the plot was sampled, plot location, size, elevation, aspect, slope, topographic position, slope shape, forest type in 1860, forest type in 2000, LANDFIRE biophysical setting in 1860, LANDFIRE existing vegetation type in 2000, number of charred undatable trees, and number of uncharred undatable trees. # # Fire History Graphs: Fire History Graphs illustrate specific years when fires occurred and how many trees were scarred. They are available in both PDF and PNG formats. The graphs consist of 2 parts, both of which show the X axis (time line) at the bottom with the earliest year of information on the left and the latest on the right. The Fire Index Plot is the topmost plot, and shows two variables: sample depth (the number of recording trees in each year) as a blue line along the left Y axis, compared with the percent trees scarred shown as gray bars along the right Y axis. Below, the Fire Chronology Plot consists of horizontal lines representing injuries by year on individual sampled trees. Symbols are overlain that denote the years containing the dendrochronologically-dated fire scars or injuries. The sample ID of each tree is displayed to the right of each line. The Composite Axis below represents the composite information from all individual series. The symbols used to represent the fire scars or injuries, and the filters used to determine the composite information, are shown in the legend. These graphs were created using the Fire History Analysis and Exploration System (FHAES). See https://www.fhaes.org/ for more information. #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: # Grant: #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Heyerdahl, E.K., Brown, P.M., Kitchen, S.G., Weber, M.H. # Published_Date_or_Year: 2011 # Published_Title: Multicentury Fire and Forest Histories at 19 Sites in Utah and Eastern Nevada # Journal_Name: # Volume: # Edition: # Issue: # Pages: # Report_Number: # DOI: no DOI # Publication_Place: # Publisher: # ISBN: # Online_Resource: # Other_Reference_Details: # Full_Citation: # Abstract: Our objective is to provide site-specific fire and forest histories from Utah and eastern Nevada that can be used for land management or additional research. We systematically sampled fire scars and tree-recruitment dates across broad gradients in elevation and forest type at 13 sites in Utah and 1 in eastern Nevada to characterize spatial and temporal variation in historical fire regimes as well as forest structure and composition. We collected similar data non-systematically at five additional sites in Utah. These 19 sites include a broad range of forest types (from pinyon-juniper woodlands to spruce-fir forests) and fire regime types. In this report, we summarize local-scale spatial and temporal variation with site-specific details of historical fire regimes and forests that will be useful for local natural resource and fire management of the individual sites. For each site, we report topography, chronologies of fire and tree recruitment, and properties derived from those chronologies such as time-averaged fire regime parameters (mean fire interval and fire severity) and changes in forest composition and structure that have occurred since the late 1800s #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Brown, P.M., Heyerdahl, E.K., Kitchen, S.G., Weber, M.H. # Published_Date_or_Year: 2008 # Published_Title: Climate effects on historical fires (1630 - 1900) in Utah # Journal_Name: # Volume: 17.0 # Edition: # Issue: # Pages: 28 - 39 # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.1071/WF07023 # Publication_Place: # Publisher: # ISBN: # Online_Resource: # Other_Reference_Details: # Full_Citation: # Abstract: We inferred climate effects on fire occurrence from 1630 to 1900 for a newset of crossdated fire-scarchronologies from 18 forested sites in Utah and one site in eastern Nevada. Years with regionally synchronous fires (31 years with fire at =20% of sites) occurred during drier than average summers and years with no fires at any site (100 years) were wetter than average. Antecedent wet summers were associated with regional-fire years in mixed-conifer and ponderosa pine forest types, possibly by affecting fine fuel amount and continuity. NINO3 (an index of the El Ni�o-Southern Oscillation, ENSO) was significantly low during regional-fire years (La Ni�as) and significantly high during non-fire years (El Ni�os). NINO3 also was high during years before regional-fire years. Although regional fire years occurred nearly twice as often as expected when NINO3 and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation were both in their cool (negative) phases, this pattern was not statistically significant. Palmer Drought Severity Index was important for fire occurrence in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests across the study area but ENSO forcing was seen only in southeastern sites. Results support findings from previous fire and climate studies, including a possible geographic pivot point in Pacific basin teleconnections at ~40 N #-------------------- # Site Information # Site_Name: Beaver Creek - IMPD USRBC001 # Location: North America>United States Of America>Utah # Northernmost_Latitude: 38.235362 # Southernmost_Latitude: 38.235362 # Easternmost_Longitude: -112.45335 # Westernmost_Longitude: -112.45335 # Elevation_m: 2718 #-------------------- # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: usrbc001 # First_Year: 1451 # Last_Year: 2002 # Time_Unit: AD # Core_Length_m: # Parameter_Keywords: fire scar dates # Notes: #-------------------- # Species # Species_Name: Abies concolor (Gordon) Lindl. ex Hildebr. # Common_Name: white fir # Tree_Species_Code: ABCO # Tree_Species_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/templates/tree-species-code.csv # Tree_Species_Download_Description: List of accepted tree species names and codes. #-------------------- # Species # Species_Name: Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt. # Common_Name: subalpine fir # Common_Name: corkbark fir # Tree_Species_Code: ABLA # Tree_Species_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/templates/tree-species-code.csv # Tree_Species_Download_Description: List of accepted tree species names and codes. #-------------------- # Species # Species_Name: Picea engelmannii Parry ex Engelm. # Common_Name: Engelmann spruce # Tree_Species_Code: PCEN # Tree_Species_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/templates/tree-species-code.csv # Tree_Species_Download_Description: List of accepted tree species names and codes. #-------------------- # Species # Species_Name: Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex C. Lawson # Common_Name: ponderosa pine # Common_Name: western yellow pine # Tree_Species_Code: PIPO # Tree_Species_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/templates/tree-species-code.csv # Tree_Species_Download_Description: List of accepted tree species names and codes. #-------------------- # Species # Species_Name: Populus trichocarpa Torr. & Gray. # Common_Name: black cottonwood # Tree_Species_Code: PPTC # Tree_Species_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/templates/tree-species-code.csv # Tree_Species_Download_Description: List of accepted tree species names and codes. #-------------------- # Species # Species_Name: Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco # Common_Name: Douglas-fir # Tree_Species_Code: PSME # Tree_Species_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/templates/tree-species-code.csv # Tree_Species_Download_Description: List of accepted tree species names and codes. #-------------------- # Chronology Information: # Chronology: # #-------------------- # Variables # # PaST_Thesaurus_Download_Resource: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/skos/past-thesaurus.rdf # PaST_Thesaurus_Download_Description: Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) Thesaurus terms, definitions, and relationships in SKOS format. # # Short_name what,material,error,units,seasonality,data_type,detail,method,data_format,additional_information # ## age_ce age, , ,year Common Era, ,FIRE HISTORY;TREE RING, , , ## tree_events tree demographic and injury and fire event code, wood, , , ,FIRE HISTORY;TREE RING, , , FHX2 data format; refer to IMPD documentation for description of codes # #-------------------- # Data: # To access data, use Data_Download_Resource links above.