Fire history data for eastern Washington, USA

Metadata:
Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: McKenzie, Donald
Publication_Date: 2015
Title:
Fire history data for eastern Washington, USA
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector and tabular digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Fort Collins, CO
Publisher: Forest Service Research Data Archive
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2015-0015
Description:
Abstract:
Fire scars provide a deep temporal record of historical fires, most of which pre-date Euro-American conquest of the West and subsequent land-use and management changes that obscure the dynamics of natural fire regimes. This eastern Washington fire-history data publication contains a unique spatially explicit fire-scar database which was used to identify the influences of climate, fuels, topography, and management. We provide two components: a georeferenced layer in which each fire-scarred tree in seven watersheds is located, along with a list of fire-scarred trees and years in which that tree was scarred for each of the watershed.
Purpose:
To provide an in-depth understanding of historical drivers of low-severity fire regimes and the implications for contemporary management in a changing climate.
Supplemental_Information:
The publications listed in the cross-reference section below all utilize the data archived here.

Some of these data may be included in the International Multiproxy Paleofire Database (IMPD, https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data/datasets/fire-history).

Original metadata date was 05/19/2015. Minor metadata updates on 12/15/2016.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 1268
Ending_Date: 1994
Currentness_Reference:
observed
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Description_of_Geographic_Extent:
The study sites were in the eastern cascades in eastern Washington state (in the United States) within ponderosa pine-dominated ecosystems. The seven sites and their locations are: South Deep and Quartzite located in the Colville National Forest and Frosty Creek, Entiat, Swauk, Twentymile and Nile Creek located in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -120.739126
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -117.498556
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 48.862432
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 47.144403
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: Fire history
Theme_Keyword: ENSO
Theme_Keyword: PDSI
Theme_Keyword: topographic controls
Theme_Keyword: spatially explicit
Theme_Keyword: multi-scale analysis
Theme_Keyword: Joint Fire Science Program
Theme_Keyword: JFSP
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: biota
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: National Research & Development Taxonomy
Theme_Keyword: Fire
Theme_Keyword: Fire detection
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System
Place_Keyword: Washington
Place_Keyword: Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
Place_Keyword: Colville National Forest
Place_Keyword: Cascade Range
Place_Keyword: Okanogan Highlands
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:
These data were collected using funding from the U.S. Government and can be used without additional permissions or fees. If you use these data in a publication, presentation, or other research product please use the citation below when citing the data product:

McKenzie, Donald. 2015. Fire history data for eastern Washington, USA. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2015-0015
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team
Contact_Person: Ellen Eberhardt
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory
Address: 400 N 34th St
City: Seattle
State_or_Province: WA
Postal_Code: 98103
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 206-732-7800
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: eeberhardt@fs.fed.us
Data_Set_Credit:
Funding for this project provided by Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP # 01-1-6-01): https://www.firescience.gov, and USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station (PNW).
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Falk, Donald A.
Originator: Miller, Carol
Originator: McKenzie, Donald
Originator: Black, Anne E.
Publication_Date: 2007
Title:
Cross-scale analysis of fire regimes
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Ecosystems
Issue_Identification: 10(5)
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 809-823
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-007-9070-7
Online_Linkage: //www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/29189
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Kellogg, Lara-Karena B.
Originator: McKenzie, Donald
Originator: Peterson, David L.
Originator: Hessl, Amy E.
Publication_Date: 200802
Title:
Spatial models for inferring topographic controls on historical low-severity fire in the eastern Cascade Range of Washington, USA
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Landscape Ecology
Issue_Identification: 23(2)
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 227-240
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-007-9188-1
Online_Linkage: //www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/30439
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Kennedy, Maureen C.
Originator: McKenzie, Donald
Publication_Date: 201012
Title:
Using a stochastic model and cross-scale analysis to evaluate controls on historical low-severity fire regimes
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Landscape Ecology
Issue_Identification: 25(10)
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 1561-1573
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-010-9527-5
Online_Linkage: //www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/39131
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: McKenzie, Donald
Originator: Hessl, Amy E.
Originator: Kellogg, Lara-Karena B.
Publication_Date: 200601
Title:
Using neutral models to identify constraints on low-severity fire regimes
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Landscape Ecology
Issue_Identification: 21(1)
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 139-152
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-005-0147-4
Online_Linkage: //www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/25544
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: McKenzie, Donald
Originator: Kennedy, Maureen
Publication_Date: 2011
Title:
Scaling laws and complexity in fire
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: book chapter
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Doerdrecht, London, Heidelberg, New York
Publisher: Springer
Other_Citation_Details:
Chapter 2, pages 27-49, in Donald McKenzie, Carol Miller, and Donald A. Falk, editors. The Landscape Ecology of Fire. (included in full data publication download)
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: McKenzie, Donald
Originator: Kennedy, Maureen C.
Publication_Date: 20120306
Title:
Power laws reveal phase transitions in landscape controls of fire regimes
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Nature Communications
Issue_Identification: 3(726)
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1731
Online_Linkage: //www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/40846
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Falk, Donald A.
Originator: Heyerdahl, Emily K.
Originator: Brown, Peter M.
Originator: Farris, Calvin
Originator: Fule, Peter Z.
Originator: McKenzie, Donald
Originator: Swetnam, Thomas W.
Originator: Taylor, Alan H.
Originator: Van Horne, Megan L.
Publication_Date: 201110
Title:
Multi-scale controls of historical forest fire regimes: new insights from fire-scar networks
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Issue_Identification: 9(8)
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 446-454
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1890/100052
Online_Linkage: //www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/39310
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Heyerdahl, Emily K.
Originator: McKenzie, Donald
Originator: Daniels, Lori D.
Originator: Hessl, Amy E.
Originator: Littell, Jeremy S.
Originator: Mantua, Nathan J.
Publication_Date: 2008
Title:
Climate drivers of regionally synchronous fires in the inland Northwest (1651-1900)
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: International Journal of Wildland Fire
Issue_Identification: 17(1)
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 40-49
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1071/WF07024
Online_Linkage: //www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/29482
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Hessl, Amy
Originator: Miller, Jennifer
Originator: Kernan, James
Originator: Keenum, David
Originator: McKenzie, Donald
Publication_Date: 2007
Title:
Mapping paleo-fire boundaries from binary point data: Comparing interpolation methods
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: The Professional Geographer
Issue_Identification: 59(1)
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 87-104 (included in full data publication download)
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9272.2007.00593.x
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Hessl, Amy E.
Originator: McKenzie, Donald
Originator: Schellhaas, Richard
Publication_Date: 2004
Title:
Drought and pacific decadal oscillation linked to fire occurrence in the inland pacific northwest
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Ecological Applications
Issue_Identification: 14(2)
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 425-442 (included in full data publication download)
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1890/03-5019
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: McKenzie, Donald
Originator: Hessl, Amy E.
Originator: Peterson, David L.
Originator: Agee, James K.
Originator: Lehmkuhl, John F.
Originator: Kellogg, Lara-Karena B.
Originator: Kernan, James
Publication_Date: Unpublished material
Title:
Fire and climatic variability in the inland pacific northwest: Integrating science and management
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Report
Other_Citation_Details:
Final report to the Joint Fire Science Program on Project #01-1-6-01 (included in full data publication download)
Online_Linkage: //www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/research/climate/fire_history.shtml
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Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
The only information available is in Everett et al. (2000) (see the Methodology section).
Logical_Consistency_Report:
Unknown
Completeness_Report:
There are a few missing measurements, but unfortunately the reasons are unknown.
Lineage:
Methodology:
Methodology_Type: Field
Methodology_Description:
Everett et al. (2000) selected the study sites to capture the heterogeneity of the eastern Cascade landscape and the limited range of ponderosa pine-dominated ecosystems. The seven sites and their locations are: South Deep and Quartzite located in the Colville National Forest, and Frosty Creek, Entiat, Swauk, Twentymile and Nile Creek located in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. The area of the study sites and sampling intensity varied at each site.
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Everett, Richard L.
Originator: Schellhaas, Richard
Originator: Keenum, Dave
Originator: Spurbeck, Don
Originator: Ohlson, Pete
Publication_Date: 20000417
Title:
Fire history in the ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forests on the east slope of the Washington Cascades
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Forest Ecology and Management
Issue_Identification: 129(1-3)
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 207-225 (included in full data publication download)
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00168-1
Methodology:
Methodology_Type: Field
Methodology_Description:
Everett et al. (2000) generated an extensive, spatially distributed network of geo-referenced and crossdated fire scar chronologies that are ideal for spatial and temporal analysis of regional surface-fire history. Within each study site, aerial photographs and topographic maps were used to identify and map aspect polygons, delineated by aspect (northerly or southerly) and slope (flat, moderate, or steep). Sizes of aspect polygons ranged from 32 to 1700 hectares, and the number within each site ranged from 2 to 21. Polygons were internally stratified into four to five sub-polygons to ensure that fire scar samples were spatially segregated in the polygon. All fire-scarred trees within each sub-polygon were mapped, and between 2 and 23 "high quality" trees (with a large number of scars) were sampled. Sections were cut from live trees (Arno and Sneck 1977), and cross-sections were collected from stumps, snags and logs.
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Everett, Richard L.
Originator: Schellhaas, Richard
Originator: Keenum, Dave
Originator: Spurbeck, Don
Originator: Ohlson, Pete
Publication_Date: 20000417
Title:
Fire history in the ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forests on the east slope of the Washington Cascades
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Forest Ecology and Management
Issue_Identification: 129(1-3)
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 207-225 (included in full data publication download)
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00168-1
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Arno, Stephen F.
Originator: Sneck, Kathy M.
Publication_Date: 1977
Title:
A method for determining fire history in coniferous forests of the mountain west
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Gen. Tech. Rep.
Issue_Identification: GTR-INT-42
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Ogden, UT
Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station
Other_Citation_Details:
28 pages
Online_Linkage: //www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/29572
Methodology:
Methodology_Type: Lab
Methodology_Description:
Fire scars were collected from both living and dead trees and prepared using standard procedures (Arno and Sneck 1977). Live sections were planed and both live and dead sections were sanded with 80-600 grit sandpaper to identify individual tree rings. All samples were then crossdated (Stokes and Smiley 1968) against an independent master tree-ring chronology developed from 20-50 climatically sensitive trees (without fire scars) within each sampling area. The year of each fire scar was determined by the position of the scar relative to the dated sequence of annual rings in the cross-section (Dieterich and Swetnam 1984). Dates were checked by at least two technicians before being archived and summarized using FHX2 fire history software (Grissino-Mayer et al. 1995). Samples that could not be conclusively dated with annual resolution were excluded from the analysis. Based on the pattern of late season fires (July-October) in the modern record, dormant season fires were always assigned to the calendar year of the previous ring (representing a fall fire), rather than the following ring (representing a spring fire).
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Arno, Stephen F.
Originator: Sneck, Kathy M.
Publication_Date: 1977
Title:
A method for determining fire history in coniferous forests of the mountain west
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Gen. Tech. Rep.
Issue_Identification: GTR-INT-42
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Ogden, UT
Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station
Other_Citation_Details:
28 pages
Online_Linkage: //www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/29572
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Dieterich, John H.
Originator: Swetman, Thomas W.
Publication_Date: 198403
Title:
Notes: Dendrochronology of a fire-scarred ponderosa pine
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Forest Science
Issue_Identification: 30(1)
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 238-247
Online_Linkage: //www.ingentaconnect.com/content/saf/fs/1984/00000030/00000001/art00035
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Stokes, Marvin A.
Originator: Smikey, Terah L.
Publication_Date: 1968
Title:
An introduction to tree-ring dating
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Book
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Chicago
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Other_Citation_Details:
73 pages. OCLC 203616.
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Grissino-Mayer, Henri Dee
Originator: Baisan, Christopher H.
Originator: Swetnam, Thomas W.
Publication_Date: 1995
Title:
Fire history in the Pinaleno Mountains of southeastern Arizona: effects of human-related disturbances
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: conference proceedings
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 399-408. In: DeBano, Leonard H.; Ffolliott, Peter H.; Ortega-Rubio, Alfredo; Gottfried, Gerald J.; Hamre, Robert H.; Edminster, Carleton B., tech. coords. 1995. Biodiversity and management of the madrean archipelago: the sky islands of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. 1994 Sept. 19-23; Tucson, AZ. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-264. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 669 p.
Methodology:
Methodology_Type: Lab
Methodology_Description:
We developed a master database of fire history records for all points (fire-scarred trees), study sites and the entire region. Trees that are scarred by fire lose protective bark and are therefore more likely to record fires again. As a result, trees are only considered "recorder trees" from the time of initial scarring until either the death of the tree or the sampling date (Romme 1980). Because a single tree can record many fire events and many of these events were likely quite small (recorded by only 1-2 trees), we created composite fire histories for each study site (Grissino-Mayer et al. 1995). These composites include only those years during which >10% of the recorder trees in a study site recorded fire, a minimum sample depth of two recorder trees were present, and at least two trees recorded fire. To identify regional fire years, defined as those representing large fire events that span more than one study site, we calculated the percentage scarred from each site and weighted (divided) it by the size of the study area. This prevented large study areas from having an exaggerated influence on our determination of regional fires. We then identified those years during which >10% of all recorder trees (weighted by study area size) in all study sites recorded fires (with a minimum sample depth of two recorder trees and two scars). Large regional fire years were identified using the same method, but with a minimum of 25% of recorder trees recording fire.
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Romme, William H.
Publication_Date: 1980
Title:
Fire history terminology: report of the Ad Hoc Committee
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: conference proceedings
Other_Citation_Details:
In: Stokes, Marvin A.; Dieterich, John H., tech. coord. 1980. Proceedings of the fire history workshop; October 20-24, 1980; Tucson, Arizona. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-81. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 142 p.
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Grissino-Mayer, Henri Dee
Originator: Baisan, Christopher H.
Originator: Swetnam, Thomas W.
Publication_Date: 1995
Title:
Fire history in the Pinaleno Mountains of southeastern Arizona: effects of human-related disturbances
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: conference proceedings
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 399-408. In: DeBano, Leonard H.; Ffolliott, Peter H.; Ortega-Rubio, Alfredo; Gottfried, Gerald J.; Hamre, Robert H.; Edminster, Carleton B., tech. coords. 1995. Biodiversity and management of the madrean archipelago: the sky islands of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. 1994 Sept. 19-23; Tucson, AZ. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-264. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 669 p.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Everett, Richard L.
Originator: Schellhaas, Richard
Originator: Keenum, Dave
Originator: Spurbeck, Don
Originator: Ohlson, Pete
Publication_Date: 20000417
Title:
Fire history in the ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forests on the east slope of the Washington Cascades
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Forest Ecology and Management
Issue_Identification: 129(1-3)
Other_Citation_Details:
Pages 207-225
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00168-1
Type_of_Source_Media: paper
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 1268
Ending_Date: 1994
Source_Currentness_Reference:
ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation:
Everett
Source_Contribution:
Everett generated an extensive, spatially distributed network of geo-referenced and crossdated fire scar chronologies that are ideal for spatial and temporal analysis of regional surface-fire history. These are the data included in this product.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
No process steps have been described for this data set
Process_Date: Unknown
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Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity point
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 2471
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Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Map_Projection:
Map_Projection_Name: NAD 1927 Lambert Conformal Conic
Other_Projection's_Definition:
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: 0.00000000803608291022329
Ordinate_Resolution: 0.00000000803608291022329
Planar_Distance_Units: meter
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: D North American 1927
Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866
Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.4
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.9786982
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Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: Tree
Entity_Type_Definition:
Fire-scarred tree
Entity_Type_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: TREEID
Attribute_Definition:
Unique tree identifier
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 20001
Range_Domain_Maximum: 80408
Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Birth_Stat
Attribute_Definition:
Birth status, type of inner ring dated
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: -1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Unknown status
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 0
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
pith year
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
inner ring
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: AspectPoly
Attribute_Definition:
Aspect polygon identifier from the field (we believe these identifiers represent aspect in degrees)
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Species
Attribute_Definition:
Species of tree
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: LAOC
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Western Larch (Larix occidentalis)
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
ITIS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: PICO
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta)
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
ITIS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: PIPO
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
ITIS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: PSME
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Douglas-Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
ITIS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: THPL
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata)
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
ITIS
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: DBH
Attribute_Definition:
Diameter at breast height of tree
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 55
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Inches
Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: -1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Unknown diameter
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Unknown
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Status
Attribute_Definition:
Status of sampled tree
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: -1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Unknown status
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 0
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Unfortunately we do not know this value means
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
live
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 2
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
snag
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 3
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
log
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 4
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
cut stamp
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 5
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Unfortunately we do not know this value means
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 22
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Unfortunately we do not know this value means
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 33
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Unfortunately we do not know this value means
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Age_Status
Attribute_Definition:
Type of outer ring dated
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: -1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Unknown status
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Unknown
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 0
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
cambium year
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
outer ring
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: First_fire
Attribute_Definition:
Year of first fire recorded for this tree
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 1268
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1958
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Calendar year
Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 0
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Unknown year
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Last_fire
Attribute_Definition:
Year of last fire recorded for this tree
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 1530
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1994
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Calendar year
Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: -1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Unknown year
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Inner_ring
Attribute_Definition:
Year of inner ring of sample
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 1184
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1994
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Calendar year
Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Outer_ring
Attribute_Definition:
Year of outer ring of sample
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 1646
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2002
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Calendar year
Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: -1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Unknown year
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: ScarNumber
Attribute_Definition:
Scar number from the field
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Scar number
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: Watershed
Entity_Type_Definition:
Study site where fire scarred trees were sampled.
Entity_Type_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Watershed name
Attribute_Definition:
Watershed / study site name
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: entiat
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Entiat study site
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: frosty
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Frosty Creek
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: nile
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Nile Creek
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: quartz
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Quartzite
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: south
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
South Deep
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: swauk
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Swauk Creek
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Everett
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: twenty
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Twentymile
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
Everett
Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
This data publication consists of eight data files.

FILE 1: \Data\FireHistorySampleLocations.shp
ArcGIS shapefile providing the location of trees from the 7 watersheds in this study. The data also contain the following:

Treeid = Unique tree identifier.

Birth_Stat = Birth status, type of inner ring dated (-1=unknown, 0=pith year, and 1=inner ring).

AspectPoly = Aspect polygon identifier from the field (source: Everett). (We believe these identifiers represent aspect in degrees. There are a couple of cases where additional information is provided, but unfortunately we don't know what it means, e.g. "11b".)

Species = Species of tree, where
LAOC = Western Larch (Larix occidentalis),
PICO = Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta),
PIPO = Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa),
PSME = Douglas-Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), and
THPL = Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata).

DBH = Diamter at breast height of tree (0-55 inches, -1=unknown).

Status = Status of sampled tree (-1=unknown, 1=live, 2=snag, 3=log, 4=cut stump, and unfortunately there are a few cases of 0, 5, 22, and 33, but we do not know what those values stood for and presume they are errors).

Age_Status = Type of outer ring dated (-1=unknown, 0=cambium year, 1=outer ring).

First_fire = Calendar year of first fire recorded (1268-1958, 0=unknown).

Last_fire = Calendar year of last fire recorded (1530-1994, -1=unknown).

Inner_ring = Calendar year of inner ring of sample (1184-1994, -1=unknown).

Outer_ring = Calendar year of outer ring of sample (1646-2002, -1=unknown).

ScarNumber = Scar number assigned in the field to the scars for this tree (unfortunately no additional information is available for this variable).


FILES 2-8: These files are comma-delimited ASCII text files containing specific information about individual fire scars on each tree. Each file represents data from a different watershed / study site.
These 7 files each contain the following variables:

\Data\entiatscar.csv: Entiat study site
FIRESCARID = Firescar ID (1-3901).
TREEID = Unique ID number for individual tree (20001-20490).
FIREYEAR = Calendar year of fire recorded by scar (1530-1988).
ASPECTPOLY = Aspect polygon: location code for stratified sampling (we believe these identifiers represent aspect in degrees, specifically 158-247 degrees for this site).
SCARNUM = Scar number.

\Data\frostyscar.csv: Frosty Creek study site
FIRESCARID = Firescar ID (1-4461).
TREEID = Unique ID number for individual tree (70000-70419).
FIREYEAR = Calendar year of fire recorded by scar (1343-1994).
ASPECTPOLY = Aspect polygon: location code for stratified sampling (we believe these identifiers represent aspect in degrees, specifically 1-8 degrees for this site).
SCARNUM = Scar number.

\Data\nilescar.csv: Nile Creek study site
FIRESCARID = Firescar ID (1-2309).
TREEID = Unique ID number for individual tree (30001-30251).
FIREYEAR = Calendar year of fire recorded by scar (1367-1970).
ASPECTPOLY = Aspect polygon: location code for stratified sampling (we believe these identifiers represent aspect in degrees, specifically 1-11 degrees for this site).
SCARNUM = Scar number.

\Data\quartzscar.csv: Quartzite study site
FIRESCARID = Firescar ID (1-1353).
TREEID = Unique ID number for individual tree (40001-40142).
FIREYEAR = Calendar year of fire recorded by scar (1384-1989).
ASPECTPOLY = Aspect polygon: location code for stratified sampling (we believe these identifiers represent aspect in degrees, specifically 1-8 degrees for this site).
SCARNUM = Scar number.

\Data\southscar.csv: South Deep study site
FIRESCARID = Firescar ID (1-767).
TREEID = Unique ID number for individual tree (50001-50170).
FIREYEAR = Calendar year of fire recorded by scar (1399-1986).
ASPECTPOLY = Aspect polygon: location code for stratified sampling (we believe these identifiers represent aspect in degrees, specifically 1-15 degrees for this site).
SCARNUM = Scar number.

\Data\swaukscar.csv: Swauk Creek study site
FIRESCARID = Firescar ID (1-6997).
TREEID = Unique ID number for individual tree (60001-60665).
FIREYEAR = Calendar year of fire recorded by scar (1268-1942).
ASPECTPOLY = Aspect polygon: location code for stratified sampling (we believe these identifiers represent aspect in degrees, specifically 0-57 degrees for this site).
SCARNUM = Scar number.

\Data\twentyscar.csv: Twentymile study site
FIRESCARID = Firescar ID (1-2946).
TREEID = Unique ID number for individual tree (80000-80408).
FIREYEAR = Calendar year of fire recorded by scar (1342-1990).
ASPECTPOLY = Aspect polygon: location code for stratified sampling (we believe these identifiers represent aspect in degrees, specifically 0-13 degrees for this site).
SCARNUM = Scar number.
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:
see Everett et al. (2000)
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Contact_Person: Robert Norheim
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