Burke, C.; Swanson, F. 2016. Archival records of fire history, 1910-1977, central western Cascades, Oregon Long-Term Ecological Research Andrews Forest LTER Site. [Database]. Available: https://andrewsforest-stage.forestry.oregonstate.edu/data/fsdb-data-catalog/DF001 Accessed 2026-05-10.

Historical wild fire records for the central western Cascades of Oregon are summarized here for the period from 1910 to 1977. Data records are obtained and summarized from historical statistical reports that were generated by the U.S. Forest Service and exist in various forms including fire maps, summary tables, and individual fire reports. The location, cause of the fire, its size class, and the source of information regarding each fire are included.

Temporal coverage: 1979-01-01 to 1979-12-31

Geographic coverage: N/A

Bounds: W N/A, E N/A, N N/A, S N/A

• To determine the location, cause, and date of historic fires in the central Western Cascades of Oregon.

Title: Long-Term Ecological Research

• Frederick J. Swanson
  Role: Principal Investigator
  USDA Forest Service;Pacific NW Research Station;3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
  Phone: (541) 750-7355
  Email: fred.swanson@oregonstate.edu
• Hazel E. Hammond
  Role: Abstractor
  Pilot - Region 6;USDA Forest Service;;
  Phone: 541-504-7257
  Email: hhammond@fs.fed.us
• Constance J. Burke
  Role: Creator
• Frederick J. Swanson
  Role: Creator
  USDA Forest Service;Pacific NW Research Station;3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
  Phone: (541) 750-7355
  Email: fred.swanson@oregonstate.edu

• Information Manager
  Andrews Forest LTER Program, US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR, 97331
  Email: hjaweb@fsl.orst.edu
  URL: http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/
• Frederick J. Swanson
  USDA Forest Service;Pacific NW Research Station;3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
  Phone: (541) 750-7355
  Email: fred.swanson@oregonstate.edu

• Andrews Forest LTER Site
  Role: Publisher
  Forest Ecosystems and Society Department in Forestry, Oregon State University, 201K Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331-5752
  Phone: (541) 737-8480
  Email: lterweb@fsl.orst.edu
  URL: http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/

Historical wild fire records for the central western Cascades of Oregon are summarized here for the period from 1910 to 1977. Data records are obtained and summarized from historical statistical reports that were generated by the U.S. Forest Service and exist in various forms including fire maps, summary tables, and individual fire reports. The location, cause of the fire, its size class, and the source of information regarding each fire are included. To determine the location, cause, and date of historic fires in the central Western Cascades of Oregon. Field Methods - DF001

Purpose: To determine the location, cause, and date of historic fires in the central Western Cascades of Oregon.

Method Steps

Sampling

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• LTER controlled vocabulary: fires (theme), disturbance (theme)
• Andrews Experimental Forest site thesaurus: Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) (theme)
• LTER core research areas: disturbance (theme)

No taxonomic hierarchy listed in this EML file.

No related dataset codes found in the EML text fields.

• Burke, Constance J. 1979. Historic fires in the central western Cascades, Oregon. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University. 130 p. M.S. thesis.

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General acknowledgement: Data were provided by the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest research program, funded by the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research Program (DEB 2025755), US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, and Oregon State University.

License: N/A

Maintenance update frequency: notPlanned

Description

• An update history is logged and maintained with each new version of every dataset.

Change History

• Version1 (1990-11-15)
  Original metadata creation.
• Version2 (2002-03-18)
  Metadata restructured and moved into SQLServer metadata database LTERMETA. Data moved into SQLServer database FSDBDATA.
• Version7 (2013-07-10)
  Metadata is revised to accommodate EML best practices and change in delimiter from (\n to \r\n). A unique identifier was added, codes were corrected and updated, and an "endyear" attribute was created.
• Version8 (2016-06-16)
  Entity 1 is modified with some minor editing, addition of a true date field, attribute name changes, and cosmetic changes.