Fire History References for the Colorado Plateau
This bibliography lists works that describe research on the fire history of particular places or vegetation types on the southern Colorado Plateau. Journal articles, book chapters, theses, and conference proceedings are included, but technical reports and other grey literature are not. The listed literature generally used tree-ring records, the spatial structure of particular forests, and charcoal records in lake sediment to reconstruct fire regimes and to analyze climate-fire interactions. Many of the studies also provide recommendations for fire management.
Allen, C. D., R. Touchan, and T. W. Swetnam. 1995. Landscape-scale fire history studies support fire management action at Bandelier. Park Science 15:18-19.
Allen, C. D. 2001. Fire and vegetation history of the Jemez Mountains. Pages 29-33 in P. S. Johnson, editor. Water, Watersheads, and Land Use in New Mexico: Impacts of Population Growth on Natural Resources, Santa Fe Region 2001. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM.
Allen, C. D., M. Savage, D. A. Falk, K. F. Suckling, T. W. Swetnam, T. Schulke, P. B. Stacey, P. Morgan, M. Hoffman, and J. T. Klingel. 2002. Ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems: a broad perspective. Ecological Applications 12:1418-1433.
Allen, C. D., R. S. Anderson, R. B. Jass, J. L. Toney, and C. H. Baisan. 2008. Paired charcoal and tree-ring records of high-frequency Holocene fire from two New Mexico bog sites. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17:115-130.
Bair, A. N. 2005. A 15,000 year vegetation and fire history record, southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico. MS Thesis. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
Baisan, C. H., and T. W. Swetnam. 1996. Historical fire regimes patterns in the southwestern United States since AD 1700. Pages 153-156 in J. K. Brown, R. W. Mutch, C. W. Spoon, and R. H. Wakimoto, editors. Symposium on Fire in Wilderness and Park Management, March 30-April 1, 1993. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT-320, Missoula, MT.
Baker, W. L., and D. J. Shinneman. 2004. Fire and restoration of piñon-juniper woodlands in the western United States: a review. Forest Ecology and Management 189:1-21.
Baker, W. L. 2006. Fire and restoration of sagebrush ecosystems. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:177-185.
Brown, P. M., and R. Wu. 2005. Climate and disturbance forcing of episodic tree recruitment in a southwestern ponderosa pine landscape. Ecology 86:3030-3038.
Floyd, M. L., W. H. Romme, and D. D. Hanna. 2000. Fire history and vegetation pattern in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA. Ecological Applications 10:1666-1680.
Floyd, M. L., D. D. Hanna, and W. H. Romme. 2004. Historical and recent fire regimes in pinyon-juniper woodlands on Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 198:269-289.
Floyd, M. L., W. H. Romme, D. D. Hanna, M. Winterowd, D. Hanna, and J. Spence. 2008. Fire history of piñon-juniper woodlands on Navajo Point, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Natural Areas Journal 28:26-36.
Fulé, P. Z., W. W. Covington, M. M. Moore, T. A. Heinlein, and A. E. M. Waltz. 2002. Natural variability in forests of the Grand Canyon, USA. Journal of Biogeography 29:31-47.
Fulé, P. Z., J. E. Crouse, T. A. Heinlein, M. M. Moore, W. W. Covington, and G. Verkamp. 2003. Mixed-severity fire regimes in a high-elevation forest of Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. Landscape Ecology 18:465-486.
Fulé, P. Z., T. A. Heinlein, W. W. Covington, and M. M. Moore. 2003. Assessing fire regimes on Grand Canyon landscapes with fire-scar and fire-record data. International Journal of Wildland Fire 12:129-145.
Fulé, P. Z., J. E. Korb, and R. Wu. 2009. Changes in forest structure of a mixed conifer forest, southwestern Colorado, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 258:1200-1210.
Grissino-Mayer, H. D. 1995. Tree-ring reconstructions of climate and fire history at El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico. PhD Dissertation. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Grissino-Mayer, H. D., and T. W. Swetnam. 1996. Effects of habitat diversity on fire regimes in El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico. Pages 195-200 in J. K. Brown, R. W. Mutch, C. W. Spoon, and R. H. Wakimoto, editors. Symposium on Fire in Wilderness and Park Management, March 30-April 1, 1993. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT-320, Missoula, MT.
Grissino-Mayer, H. D., and T. W. Swetnam. 2000. Century-scale climate forcing of fire regimes in the American Southwest. The Holocene 10:213-220.
Grissino-Mayer, H. D., W. H. Romme, M. L. Floyd, and D. Hanna. 2004. Climatic and human influences on fire regimes of the southern San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA. Ecology 85:1708-1724.
Heinlein, T. A. 1996. Fire regimes and forest structure in lower mixed conifer forests: San Francisco Peaks, Arizona. MS Thesis. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
Herring, E. M. 2009. The fire history and paleoecology of Prater Canyon in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. MS Thesis. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
Huffman, D. W., P. Z. Fulé, K. M. Pearson, and J. E. Crouse. 2008. Fire history of pinyon-juniper woodlands at upper ecotones with ponderosa pine forests in Arizona and New Mexico. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38:2097-2108.
Keane, R. E., J. K. Agee, P. Z. Fulé, J. E. Keeley, C. Key, S. G. Kitchen, R. Miller, and L. A. Schulte. 2008. Ecological effects of large fires of US landscapes: benefit or catastrophe? International Journal of Wildland Fire 17:696-712.
Lewis, D. B. 2003. Fire regimes of kipuka forests in El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico. MS Thesis. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
Margolis, E. Q., T. W. Swetnam, and C. D. Allen. 2007. A stand-replacing fire history in upper montane forests of the southern Rocky Mountains. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37:2227-2241.
Margolis, E. Q., and J. Balmat. 2009. Fire history and fire-climate relationships along a fire regime gradient in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed, NM, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 258:2416-2430.
Romme, W. H., C. D. Allen, J. D. Bailey, W. L. Baker, B. T. Bestelmeyer, P. M. Brown, K. S. Eisenhart, M. L. Floyd, D. W. Huffman, B. F. Jacobs, R. F. Miller, E. H. Muldavin, T. W. Swetnam, R. J. Tausch, and P. J. Weisberg. 2009. Historical and modern disturbance regimes, stand structures, and landscape dynamics in piñon-juniper vegetation of the western United States. Rangeland Ecology and Management 62:203-222.
Roos, C. I. 2009. Fire, climate, and social-ecological systems in the ancient Southwest: alluvial geoarchaeology and applied historical ecology. PhD Dissertation. University of Arizona, Tucscon, AZ.
Savage, M., and T. W. Swetnam. 1990. Early 19th-century fire decline following sheep pasturing in a Navajo ponderosa pine forest. Ecology 71:2374-2378.
Shinneman, D. J., and W. L. Baker. 2009. Historical fire and multidecadal drought as context for pinon-juniper woodland restoration in western Colorado. Ecological Applications 19:1231-1245.
Swetnam, T. W., and J. L. Betancourt. 1990. Fire-Southern Oscillation relations in the southwestern United States. Science 249:1017-1020.
Swetnam, T. W., and J. L. Betancourt. 1998. Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climatic variability in the American Southwest. Journal of Climate 11:3128-3147.
Swetnam, T. W., C. D. Allen, and J. L. Betancourt. 1999. Applied historical ecology: using the past to manage for the future. Ecological Applications 9:1189-1206.
Toney, J. L., and R. S. Anderson. 2006. A postglacial palaeoecological record from the San Juan Mountains of Colorado USA: fire, climate and vegetation history. The Holocene 16:505-517.
Touchan, R., T. W. Swetnam, and H. D. Grissino-Mayer. 1996. Effects of livestock grazing on pre-settlement fire regimes in New Mexico. Pages 268-272 in J. K. Brown, R. W. Mutch, C. W. Spoon, and R. H. Wakimoto, editors. Symposium on Fire in Wilderness and Park Management, March 30-April 1, 1993. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT-320, Missoula, MT.
Trouet, V., A. H. Taylor, E. R. Wahl, C. N. Skinner, and S. L. Stephens. 2010. Fire-climate interactions in the American West since 1400 CE. Geophysical Research Letters 37:L04702.
Weng, C., and S. T. Jackson. 1999. Late glacial and Holocene vegetation history and paleoclimate of the Kaibab Plateau, Arizona. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 153:179-201.
Wolf, J. J., and J. N. Mast. 1998. Fire history of mixed-conifer forests on the North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Physical Geography 19:1-14.
Wu, R. 1999. Fire history and structure in the mixed conifer forests of southwestern Colorado. MS Thesis. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
