OUR FOCUS
Since the 1980s, a primary focus of research at CTRS has been fire history. Using dendrochronological methods to date fire scars (wounds) on trees, we can determine the exact year, and often the season, of past fire events. Our fire history reconstructions typically can span 300 to 600+ years and describe the occurrence of fire at a particular location on the landscape. These records inform fire management of landscapes and, through modeling, fire regime variability across the North American continent.
