Butler Creek - USBUT001 Additional Site Information Emily K. Heyerdahl, Penelope Morgan, James P. Riser II Dating Method: Crossdated Sample Storage Location: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station Fire Sciences Lab 5775 West Highway 10 Missoula, MT 59808 stored by Emily K. Heyerdahl (eheyerdahl@fs.fed.us, 406-829-6939) Reference: Heyerdahl, E.K., P. Morgan, and J.P. Riser II. 2008. Multi-season climate synchronized historical fires in dry forests (1650-1900), Northern Rockies, USA. Ecology 89(3): 705-716. Heyerdahl, Emily K.; Morgan, Penelope; Riser, James P., II. 2008. Crossdated fire histories (1650-1900) from ponderosa pine-dominated forests of Idaho and western Montana. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-214WWW. Fort Collins, CO: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 83 p. Available from TreeSearch: http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/ Abstract: This site is part of a broader project to infer the climate drivers of regional fire years in the US northern Rockies, i.e., Idaho and Montana west of the Continental Divide. We needed a multicentury record of widespread fires across the region to meet the objectives of our broader study and therefore we targeted sites historically dominated or co-dominated by ponderosa pine that historically sustained frequent surface fires. Tree locations were determined using handheld global position system receivers. Injuries in the FHX file include both eroded scars (i.e., ones for which much or all of the overlapping, curled woundwood rings were destroyed by subsequent fires or rot) and abrupt changes in the width of annual rings that were synchronous with fire scars on other trees at this sites. We assigned ring-boundary scars to the preceeding calendar year at this site. Comments: Samples collected below forest road 2178 on ridge above Stony Creek. Individual Sample Information: (tree ID,number of samples dated,number of scars dated,number of injuries dated,species,live?,UTM-E (NAD27, zone 11),UTM-N (NAD27, zone 11)) BUT01,2,23,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697785,5221931 BUT02,1,22,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697770,5221908 BUT03,2,39,1,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697770,5221876 BUT04,3,33,0,Pinus ponderosa,log,697746,5221900 BUT05,1,16,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697745,5221909 BUT06,2,22,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697747,5221911 BUT07,1,20,2,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697747,5221911 BUT08,1,23,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697744,5221902 BUT09,1,11,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697744,5221902 BUT10,1,10,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697719,5221905 BUT11,1,14,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697680,5221753 BUT12,1,15,1,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697691,5221797 BUT13,3,33,3,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697713,5221839 BUT14,4,49,3,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697693,5221850 BUT15,1,9,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697685,5221836 BUT16,1,19,1,Pinus ponderosa,snag,697722,5221762 BUT17,1,25,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697675,5221850 BUT18,1,10,1,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697679,5221861 BUT20,2,23,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697651,5221888 BUT21,1,12,1,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697627,5221901 BUT22,0,0,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697637,5221896 BUT23,2,21,1,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697685,5221867 BUT24,2,39,2,Pinus ponderosa,log,697685,5221905 BUT25,0,0,0,Pseudotsuga menziesii,stump,697694,5221912 BUT26,3,18,2,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697719,5221865 BUT27,1,6,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697742,5221855 BUT28,1,8,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697742,5221852 BUT29,1,8,0,Pinus ponderosa,log,697751,5221848 BUT30,2,30,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697746,5221836 BUT31,1,13,1,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697732,5221807 BUT32,4,62,1,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697739,5221821 BUT33,3,38,1,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697728,5221827 BUT34,1,14,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697714,5221833 BUT35,1,16,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697737,5221772 BUT36,1,12,1,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697746,5221777 BUT37,2,25,1,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697754,5221763 BUT38,3,31,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697762,5221753 BUT39,1,14,1,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697777,5221766 BUT40,1,30,0,Pinus ponderosa,stump,697745,5221742 BUT41,1,4,0,Pinus ponderosa,log,697752,5221755 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.