Rose Canyon East - USRSE001
Additional Site Information

Thomas W. Swetnam, Christopher H. Baisan, Anthony C. Caprio


Dating Method: Crossdated

Sample Storage Location: Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of 
Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Reference: Baisan, C.H., Morino, K.A., Grissino-Mayer, H.D. and T.W. Swetnam.
1998.  Final Report: Fire History in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests
of the Santa Catalina Mountains: 15 pages.

Swetnam, T. W. and C. H. Baisan. 1996. Fire histories of montane forests in
the Madrean Borderlands. In P. F. Ffolliott et al. tech. coords., Effects of
fire on Madrean Province Ecosystems, A symposium proceedings, USDA Forest
Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-289: 15-36.

Swetnam, T. W., Baisan, C.H. and J. M. Kaib. 2001. Chapter 7: Forest fire
histories in the sky islands of La Frontera.  In G. L. Webster and C. J. Bahre
eds., Changing Plant Life of La Frontera: Observations on Vegetation in the
United States/Mexico Borderlands.  University of New Mexico Press,
Albuquerque: 95-119.

Swetnam, T. W. and C. H. Baisan. 2003. Tree-ring reconstructions of fire and
climate history in the Sierra Nevada and Southwestern United States.  In:  T.
Veblen, W. Baker, G. Montenegro, and T. W. Swetnam, editors. Fire and Climatic
Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas. Ecological Studies
Vol. 160. Springer, New York: 158-195.

Comments: 1989,1990

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 http://frames.nbii.gov/fhaes/ for more information.