Spatiotemporal variability of fire regimes in adjacent Native American and public forests, New Mexico, USA.

noaa-fire-26071 Azpeleta Tarancón fire data from Potato Patch NM, south central New Mexico - IMPD USPP-002 Azpeleta Tarancón, A.; Fule, P.; Sánchez Meador, A.J.; Kim, Y.-S.; Padilla, T. Azpeleta Tarancón fire data from Potato Patch NM, south central New Mexico - IMPD USPP-002 2019-02-04 NCDC-Paleoclimatology ONLINE Files Pending https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/26071 Investigator A. Azpeleta Tarancón Investigator P. Fule Investigator A.J. Sánchez Meador Investigator Y.-S. Kim Investigator T. Padilla earth science paleoclimate fire history fire scar dates geoscientificInformation PIPO Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex C. Lawson ponderosa pine western yellow pine PIST Pinus strobus L. eastern white pine Weymouth pine PSME Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco Douglas-fir 1679 AD 2015 AD 271 cal yr BP -65 cal yr BP Complete 33.043863 33.043863 -105.724789 -105.724789 2564 2564 Continent North America United States Of America New Mexico Potato Patch NM>LATITUDE 33.043863>LONGITUDE -105.724789 None Please cite original publication, online resource, dataset and publication DOIs (where available), and date accessed when using downloaded data. If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, title, online resource, and date accessed. The appearance of external links associated with a dataset does not constitute endorsement by the Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of external Web sites or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities, the Department of Commerce/NOAA does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this Department of Commerce/NOAA Web site. English DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data DATA Center Contact Bruce Bauer bruce.a.bauer@noaa.gov paleo@noaa.gov 303-497-6280 303-497-6513

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Boulder CO 80305-3328 USA online ASCII Azpeleta Tarancon, A., Fulé, P.Z., Sanchez Meador, A.J., Azpeleta, A., Yeon-Su, K., Padilla, T 2018 Spatiotemporal variability of fire regimes in adjacent Native American and public forests, New Mexico, USA. Proquest Azpeleta Tarancon, A., Fulé, P.Z., Sanchez Meador, A.J., Azpeleta, A., Yeon-Su, K., Padilla, T 2018 Spatiotemporal variability of fire regimes in adjacent Native American and public forests, New Mexico, USA Ecosphere 9 11 9(11):e02492.10.1002/ecs2.2492

Statistical descriptions of reconstructed fire regimes are often extrapolated from a composite of small forest stands to represent extensive geographical areas. However, statistical properties of fire regimes are scale-dependent, thus causing some extrapolations from fine scale to coarse scale and comparisons between fire-scar-based reconstructions to be inappropriate. We assessed landscape fire regimes of the Sacramento Mountains, in southern New Mexico, using dendrochronological methods and a variety of fire statistics and analysis filters. We reconstructed historical and recent fire regimes for the Mescalero Apache Tribal Lands (MATL) at tree and site scale (25 ha). We then estimated the Sacramento Mountains historical and recent fire regimes by combining paleo fire data from this study with published data from the adjacent Lincoln National Forest (LNF). We applied filters to provide fire statistics that are relatively unbiased to the different spatial measurement extent of the studies. This is the first study to assess fire regime in the MATL over multiple spatial and temporal scales. The results show that frequent surface fires occurred at all scales in the Sacramento Mountains until fire was excluded from the landscape in the early 1900s. Historical fires were found to be synchronous with drought years, typically La Nina events, and often preceded by wet years. We did not find evidence supporting differences in fire regimes between the MATL and the LNF, suggesting that fire cessation following intensive Euro-American settlement was widespread. The interruption of frequent surface fires, together with other changes in forest structure and climate, pose a significant threat to sustainability of forest ecosystems on Native American tribal lands. STUDY NOTES: This site was sampled to assess the spatiotemporal variability of fire regimes on Mescalero Apache lands and lands adjacent.

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