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Project ID: 06-3-1-16

Year: 2006

Date Started: 07/07/2006

Date Completed: 05/11/2010

Title: Developing and Using Fire Scar Histories in the Southern and Eastern United States

Project Proposal Abstract: Fire scar evidence of fire regimes in eastern North America is sparse and complex but shows promise in defining the dynamics of these fire regimes and their influence on ecosystems. Much of the eastern and southern United States has no fire scar data or analysis. Fire scar chronologies, especially those that predate European settlement, are difficult to acquire in the eastern U.S. because of the rapid decay of wood, the lack of old trees available for sectioning, and the small amount of public land. We propose, based on our past experience in eastern forests, to identify and construct fire scar histories (250+ years in length), for at least 10 sites in the deciduous and subtropical forests of this region. We will identify and sample sites in Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, West Virginia, Florida, and South Carolina. We will use remnant wood and live trees of oak and southern pine species to develop precisely dated fire scar chronologies at each site. These data will be made available to the public via the International Multiproxy Paleofire Database administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Additionally, this project will incorporate these new fire scar chronologies with existing data to estimate and map pre-European settlement mean fire intervals for the eastern United States. Analyses will relate changes in fire frequency to climate, natural ignition frequency and human population density. Empirically derived regression models based on climate, population, and ignitions will be used to produce and map fire intervals.

Principal Investigator: Richard P. Guyette

Agency/Organization: University of Missouri-Columbia

Branch or Dept: Forestry

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Martin Spetich	Forest Service	SRS-Hot Springs AR Office
Collaborator/Contributor	Michael A. Jenkins	NPS-National Park Service	Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Collaborator/Contributor	Rex Mann	Forest Service	Daniel Boone National Forest
Federal Cooperator	Daniel C. Dey	Forest Service	NRS-Northern Research Station

Project Locations

Consortium

Alaska

Appalachian

California

Great Basin

Great Plains

Lake States

Oak Woodlands

Northern Rockies

Northwest

Pacific

South

Southern Rockies

Southwest

Tallgrass

There are no project locations identified for this project.

Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

	ID	Type	Title
	9142	Refereed Publication	Fire Scars Reveal Source of New England’s 1780 Dark Day
	9146	Invited Paper/Presentation	Perspectives and Comparisons of Smoke Emissions from Historic and Modern Fires: Taking the Elephant out of the Closet and Putting it into the Stadium
	9144	Invited Paper/Presentation	Fire History in the Huron Mountains Landscape
	9143	Invited Paper/Presentation	Future Continental and Global Climate Forcing of Fire Frequency
	9136	MS Thesis	Fire Effects and Litter Accumulation Dynamics in a Montane Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
	9147	Poster	Fire Scar Confirmation of a Long-Term Fire Regime in a Longleaf Pine-Bluestem Ecosystem
	9145	Poster	A Calibration of Temperature and Fire Frequency

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