DB Code:
DF007
Abstract:
Fire history is documented for an 11,000 hectare (27,110 acre) area in the western Oregon Cascades , including H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest. Fire scar and tree origin data were collected mainly from stumps at 359 sites. Thirty-five fire events are mapped from 1482 to 1952. Mean fire return intervals are derived from data at individual sites, about 5 hectares in size, rather than from the corrected master fire chronology.
Study date:
January 10, 1984 to August 31, 1987
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Researchers:
Donald L. Henshaw, Frederick J. Swanson, Peter D. Adrian Teensma, Peter J. Weisberg
Purpose:
To describe the historical fire regime of the study area. To compare fire frequencies over different historical periods. To test whether fire regimes vary spatially according to landscape or topographic controls.