Fire Ecology

Table 2 Location, area, sample size, and fire events for the four Washington study sites. Fire events were included if they scarred four or more trees during the period of analysis, 1700–1850.

From: Spatially Heterogeneous Estimates of Fire Frequency in Ponderosa Pine Forests of Washington, USA

Site	Latitude (N)	Longitude (W)	Area (ha)	Trees	Scars	Fire events
Entiat	47° 48′	120° 20′	15 708	469	1 988	45
Nile	46° 52′	121° 05′	4 033	232	1 446	44
South Deep	48° 45′	117° 40′	10 809	151	296	16
Swauk	47° 15′	120° 38′	12 644	665	4 128	82
Total			43 194	1 517	7 858	187

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