# Saladyga fire data from Short Mountain, Appalachian Ridge and Valley - IMPD USSM-002 #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # 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.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/35533 # 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-35533.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/ussm-002.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/ussm-002-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/ussm-002-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/ussm-002-fire-hist-graph.png # Supplemental_Description: Supplemental: Fire History Graph; Fire history graph in PNG format #-------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 01/26/2022 #-------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 01/26/2021 #-------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Saladyga fire data from Short Mountain, Appalachian Ridge and Valley - IMPD USSM-002 #-------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Saladyga, Thomas; Maxwell, R. Stockton #-------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: # Sample Storage Location: Environmental Geography Lab, Concord University, Athens, West Virginia # 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/ussm-002.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/ussm-002-noaa.txt # # 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: Saladyga, Tom.; Maxwell, R.S. # Published_Date_or_Year: 2021 # Published_Title: A Multi-Century Fire History from the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia. # Journal_Name: Southeastern Geographer # Volume: 61 # Edition: # Issue: 3 # Pages: 258-278 # Report_Number: # DOI: doi:10.1353/sgo.2021.0019 # Publication_Place: # Publisher: # ISBN: # Online_Resource: # Other_Reference_Details: # Full_Citation: Saladyga, T. and Maxwell, R.S., 2021. A Multi-Century Fire History from the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia. Southeastern Geographer, 61(3), pp.258-278. doi:10.1353/sgo.2021.0019. # Abstract: Tree-ring reconstructions of past fire activity provide context for forest management and restoration plans. Our primary objective in this study was to develop a new fire history in the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia where published reconstructions are particularly sparse, but efforts to develop prescribed fire plans are on the rise. We produced a 293-year (1727�2019) post-settlement fire history from 57 yellow pine (P. pungens, P. rigida, and P. virginiana) trees spread across five topographically diverse sites on Short Mountain in Hampshire County. The filtered composite mean fire interval was 7�15 years at individual sites, while a landscape-scale analysis indicates that fire frequency did not change over nearly 160 years (1855�2011). Fires, however, were significantly less extensive during the �exclusion era� (post 1930). No conclusive relationships between drought and fire were identified, although the most extensive fire year (1930) was uniquely dry. These findings complement existing regional fire histories and provide a new context for the application of prescribed fire in the Potomac Highlands. #-------------------- # Site Information # Site_Name: Short Mountain - IMPD USSM-002 # Location: North America>United States Of America>West Virginia # Northernmost_Latitude: 39.19 # Southernmost_Latitude: 39.19 # Easternmost_Longitude: -78.67 # Westernmost_Longitude: -78.67 # Elevation_m: 550 #-------------------- # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: USSM-002 # First_Year: 1727 # Last_Year: 2019 # Time_Unit: CE # Core_Length_m: # Parameter_Keywords: fire scar dates # Notes: #-------------------- # Species # Species_Name: Pinus pungens Lamb. # Common_Name: Table Mountain pine # Tree_Species_Code: PIPU # 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 rigida Mill. # Common_Name: pitch pine # Tree_Species_Code: PIRI # 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 virginiana Mill. # Common_Name: Virginia pine # Common_Name: scrub pine # Tree_Species_Code: PIVI # 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.