Fire Scars (IMAGE)

Southern Methodist University

Fire Scars

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A tree ring shows the pattern of fire scars from 1700 to 1979. As is typical of tree rings, fire scars stop around 1900 due to a century of fire suppression.

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Roos, Swetnam

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