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Hagmann, R.K., P.F. Hessburg, S.J. Prichard, N.A. Povak, P.M. Brown, P.Z. Fule, R.E. Keane, E.E. Knapp, J.M. Lydersen, K.L. Metlen, M.J. Reilly, A.J. Sanchez Meador, S.L. Stephens, J.T. Stevens, A.H. Taylor, L.L. Yocom, M.A. Battaglia, D.J. Churchill, L.D. Daniels, D.A. Falk, P. Henson, J.D. Johnston, M.A. Krawchuk, C.R. Levine, G.W. Meigs, A.G. Merschel, M.P. North, H.D. Safford, T.W. Swetnam, and A.E.M. Waltz. 2021. Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests. Ecological Applications 31(8):e02431. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2431
Morino, K., R.L. Minor, G.A. Barron-Gafford, P.M. Brown, and M.K. Hughes. 2021. Bimodal cambial activity and false-ring formation in conifers under a monsoon climate. Tree Physiology 41(10):1893-1905. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpab045
Six, D.L., A. Trowbridge, M. Howe M, D. Perkins, E. Berglund E, P.M. Brown, J.A. Hicke, and G. Balasubramanian. 2021. Growth, chemistry, and genetic profiles of whitebark pine forests affected by climate-driven mountain pine beetle outbreaks. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4:671510. http://10.3389/ffgc.2021.671510
Brown, S.R., A. Baysinger, P.M. Brown, J.L. Cheek, J.M. Diez, C.M. Gentry, T.A. Grant III, J.-M. St. Jacques, D.A. Jordan, M.L. Leef, M.K. Rourke, J.H. Speer, C.E. Spradlin, J.T. Stevens, J.R. Stone, B. Van Winkle, and N.E. Zeibig-Kichas. 2020. Fire history across forest types in the southern Beartooth Mountains, Wyoming. Tree-Ring Research 76(1):27-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3959/TRR2018-11

Meunier, J., N.S. Holoubek, P.M. Brown, and M. Sebasky. 2019. Re-evaluating pattern and process to understand resilience in transitional mixed conifer forests. Ecology. 100(11):e02839 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2839

Brown, P.M., C. Gentry, and Q. Yao. 2019. Historical and current fire regimes in Zion National Park, Utah: restoration of pattern and process after a century of fire exclusion. Forest Ecology and Management 424:191–204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.04.058

Brown, P.M., B. Gannon, M.A. Battaglia, P.J. Fornwalt, L.S. Huckaby, A.S. Cheng, and L.S. Baggett. 2019. Identifying old trees to inform ecological restoration in montane forests of the central Rocky Mountains, USA. Tree-Ring Research. 75(1):34-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3959/1536-1098-75.1.34

Cannon, J.B., K.J. Barrett, B.M. Gannon, R.N. Addington, M.A. Battaglia, P.J. Fornwalt, G.H. Aplet, A.S. Cheng, J.L. Underhill, J.S. Briggs, and P.M. Brown. 2018. Collaborative restoration effects on forest structure in ponderosa pine-dominated forests of Colorado. Forest Ecology and Management 424:191–204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.04.026

Battaglia, M.A., B. Gannon, P.M. Brown, P.J. Fornwalt, A.S. Cheng, and L.S. Huckaby. 2018. Changes in forest structure since 1860 in montane ponderosa pine dominated forests of the Colorado Front Range, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 422:147-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.04.010

Harley, G.L, C.H. Baisan, P.M. Brown, H.D. Grissino-Mayer, D.A. Falk, W.T. Flatley, A. Hessl, E.K. Heyerdahl, M.W. Kaye, C.W. Lafon, E.Q. Margolis, R.S. Maxwell, A.T. Naito, W.J. Platt, M.T. Rother, T. Saladyga, R.L. Sherriff, L.A. Stachowiak, M.C. Stambaugh, E. Kennedy Sutherland, and A.H. Taylor. 2018. Advancing dendrochronological studies of fire in the United States. Fire 1, 11; http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire1010011

Addington, R.N., G.H. Aplet, M.A. Battaglia, J.S. Briggs, P.M. Brown, A.S. Cheng, Y. Dickinson, J.A. Feinstein, K.A. Pelz, C.M. Regan, J. Thinnes, R. Truex. P.J. Fornwalt, B. Gannon, C.W. Julian, J.L. Underhill, and B. Wolk. 2018. Principles and practices for restoration of ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forests of the Colorado Front Range. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, General Technical Report GTR-373.

Collins, B.M., J.T. Stevens, J.D. Miller, S.L. Stephens, P.M. Brown, and M.P. North. 2017. Alternative characterization of forest fire regimes: incorporating spatial patterns. Landscape Ecology 32:1543–1552. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-017-0528-5
Yao, Q., P. M. Brown, S. Liu, M. E. Rocca, V. Trouet, B. Zheng, H. Chen, Y. Li, D. Liu, and X. Wang. 2017. Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on wildfires in north-east China (1774 to 2010). Geophyscial Research Letters 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071821
Yocom Kent, L.L., P.Z. Fulé, P.M. Brown, J. Cerano, E. Cornejo-Oviedo, C. Cortés Montaño, S.A. Drury, D.A. Falk, J. Meunier, H.M. Poulos, C.N. Skinner, S. Stephens, and J. Villanueva-Díaz. 2017. Climate drives fire synchrony but local factors control fire regime change in northern Mexico. Ecosphere. 8(3):e01709. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1709
Hessl, A. E., P. Brown, O. Byambasuren, S. Cockrell, C. Leland, E. Cook, B. Nachin, N. Pederson, T. Saladyga, and B. Suran. 2016. Fire and climate in Mongolia (1532–2010 Common Era). Geophysical Research Letters, 43:6519–6527. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069059
Fornwalt, P.J., L.S. Huckaby, S.K. Alton, M.R. Kaufmann, P.M. Brown, and A.S. Cheng. 2016. Did the Hayman Fire, Colorado, burn with uncharacteristic severity? Fire Ecology 12:117-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.4996/fireecology.1203117
Keyser, T.L., and P.M. Brown. 2016. Drought response of upland oak (Quercus L.) species in Appalachian hardwood forests of the southeastern USA. Annals of Forest Science 73:971-986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13595-016-0575-0
Hessburg, P.F., T.A. Spies, D.A. Perry, C.N. Skinner, A.H. Taylor, P.M. Brown, S.L. Stephens, A.J. Larson, D.J. Churchill, N.A. Povak, P.H. Singleton, B. McComb, W.J. Zielinski, B.M. Collins, R.B. Salter, J.J. Keane, J.F. Franklin, and G. Riegel. 2016. Tamm Review: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California. Forest Ecology and Management 366:221-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.01.034
Stevens, J.T., H.D. Safford, M.P. North, J.S. Fried, A.N. Gray, P.M. Brown, C.R. Dolanc, S.Z. Dobrowski, D.A. Falk, C.A. Farris, J.F. Franklin, P.Z. Fulé, R.K. Hagmann, E.E. Knapp, J.D. Miller, D.F. Smith, T.W. Swetnam, and A.H. Taylor. 2016. Average stand age from forest inventory plots does not describe historical fire regimes in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of western North America. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0147688. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147688
Brown, P.M., M.A. Battaglia, B. Gannon, P. Fornwalt, L. Huckaby, C. Julian, and A.S. Cheng. 2015. Historical forest structure and fire history in lower elevation ponderosa pine forests of Boulder County, northern Front Range, Colorado. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 45:1462–1473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2014-0387
Keyser, T.L., and P.M. Brown. 2014. Climate-growth relationships for yellow-poplar across structural and site quality gradients in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Forest Ecology and Management 329:158-165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.06.015
Aplet, G., P.M. Brown, J. Briggs, S. Mayben, D. Edwards, T. Cheng. 2014. Collaborative Implementation of Forest Landscape Restoration in the Colorado Front Range. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, Colorado State University, Technical Brief CFRI-TB-1403, Fort Collins, CO. 9p.
Miller, I.M., J.S. Pigati, R.S. Anderson, K.R. Johnson, S.A. Mahan, T.A. Ager, R.G. Baker, M. Blaauw, J. Bright, P.M. Brown, B. Bryant, Z.T. Calamari, P.E. Carrara, M.D. Cherney, J.R. Demboski, S.A. Elias, D.C. Fisher, H.J. Gray, D.R. Haskett, J.S. Honke, S.T. Jackson, G. Jiménez-Moreno, D. Kline, E.M. Leonard, N.A. Lifton, C. Lucking, H.G. McDonald, D.M. Miller, D.R. Muhs, S.E. Nash, C. Newton, J.B. Paces, L. Petrie, M.A. Plummer, D.F. Porinchu, A.N. Rountrey, E. Scott, J.J.W. Sertich, S.E. Sharpe, G.L. Skipp, L.E. Strickland, R.K. Stucky, R.S. Thompson, and J. Wilson. 2014. A high-elevation, multi-proxy biotic and environmental record of MIS 6-4 from the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA. Quaternary Research 82:618-634. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2014.07.004
Rocca, M.E., P.M. Brown, L.H. MacDonald, and C.M. Carrico. 2014. Climate change impacts on fire regimes and key ecosystem services in Rocky Mountain forests. Forest Ecology and Management 327:290-305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.04.005
Meunier, J., W.H. Romme, and P.M. Brown. 2014. Climate and land-use effects on wildfire in northern Mexico, 1650-2010. Forest Ecology and Management 325:49-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.03.048
Brown, P.M., S.E. Nash, and D. Kline. 2014. Identification and dendrochronology of wood found at the Ziegler Reservoir Fossil Site, Colorado. Quaternary Research 82:575-579. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2014.02.006
Yocom, L.L, P.Z. Fulé, C. García-Domínguez, D.A. Falk, E. Cornejo-Oviedo, P.M. Brown, J. Villanueva-Díaz, J. Cerano, and C. Cortés Montaño. 2014. Fine-scale factors influence fire regimes on three mountain tops in Mexico. International Journal of Wildland Fire 23:959-968. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF13214
Meunier, J., P.M. Brown and W.H. Romme. 2014. Tree recruitment in relation to climate and fire in northern Mexico. Ecology 95:197-209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/13-0032.1
Brown, P.M. 2013. Dendrochronology: Fire regimes. In: W.J. Rink and J. Thompson (editors), Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods. Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6326-5_76-4
Fulé, P.Z., T.W. Swetnam, P.M. Brown, D.A. Falk, D.L. Peterson, and C.D. Allen, G.H. Aplet, M.A. Battaglia, D. Binkley, C. Farris, R.E. Keane, E.Q. Margolis, H.D. Grissino-Mayer, C. Miller, C.Hull Sieg, C. Skinner, S. L. Stephens, and A. Taylor. 2013. Unsupported inferences of high-severity fire in historical western United States dry forests: Response to Williams and Baker. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23:825-830. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12136
Anderson , R.S., A. Ejarque, P.M. Brown, and D. Hallett. 2013. Holocene and historical vegetation change and fire history on the north-central coast of California. The Holocene 23:1797-1810. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683613505344
Keyser, T.L., and P.M. Brown. 2013. Long-term response of yellow-poplar to thinning in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Forest Ecology and Management 312:148-153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.10.010
Pederson, N., C. Leland, B. Nachin, A. E. Hessl, A. R. Bell, D. Martin-Benito, T. Saladyga, B. Suran, P.M. Brown and N. Davi. 2013. Three centuries of shifting hydroclimatic regimes across the Mongolian breadbasket. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 178-179:10-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.07.003
Hessl, A.E., P.M. Brown, U. Ariya, O. Byambasuren, B. Suran, T. Green, G. Jacoby, E. Sutherland, B. Nachin, R. Maxwell, N. Pederson, L. De Grandpré, T. Saladyga, and J. Tardif. 2011. Reconstructing fire history in central Mongolia from tree-rings. International Journal of Wildland Fire 21:86-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF10108
Clement, J., and P. M. Brown. 2011. Front Range Roundtable, Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project 2011: Ecological, Social, and Economic Monitoring Plan. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute.
Heyerdahl, E.K., P.M. Brown, S.G. Kitchen, and M.H. Weber. 2011. Multicentury fire and forest histories across forest types in Utah and eastern Nevada. General Technical Report 261 WWW. Fort Collins, CO: USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
Wang X., P.M. Brown, Y. Zhang, and L. Song. 2011. Imprint of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on Tree-Ring Widths in Northeastern Asia since 1568. PLoS ONE 6(7):e22740. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022740
D.A. Falk, E.K. Heyerdahl, P.M. Brown, C. Farris, P.Z. Fulé, D. McKenzie, T.W. Swetnam, A.H. Taylor, and M.L. Van Horne. 2011. Multicentury spatial dynamics of western North American forest fires from fire-scar networks. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8(9):446-454. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/100052
Brown, P.M., A. Bhattacharyya and S.K. Shah. 2011. Potential for developing fire histories in chir pine (Pinus roxburghii) forests in the Himalayan foothills. Tree-Ring Research 67:57-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3959/2009-15.1
Swetnam, T.W, and P.M. Brown. 2010. Climatic inferences from dendroecological reconstructions. In M.K. Hughes, H.F. Diaz, and T.W. Swetnam (editors); Dendroclimatology: Progress and Prospects. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, Springer Verlag.
Falk , D.A., E.K. Heyerdahl, P.M. Brown, T.W. Swetnam , E.K. Sutherland , Z. Gedalof , L. Yocom, and T.J. Brown. 2010. Fire and climate variation in western North America from fire-scar and tree-ring networks. PAGES (Past Global Climate Changes) News 18(2):70-72.
Brown, P.M., M. Rocca, J. Clement, G. Hayward, C. Rhoades, B. Collins, and R. Skorkowsky. 2010. Some ecological considerations regarding the future range of variability of lodgepole pine ecosystems in Colorado and Wyoming. Colorado Forest Restoration Institute.
Yocom, L.L., P.Z. Fulé, P.M. Brown, J. Cerano, J. Villanueva-Díaz, D.A. Falk, and E. Cornejo-Oviedo. 2010. El Niño-Southern Oscillation effect on a fire regime in northeastern Mexico has changed over time. Ecology 91:1660-1671. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/09-0845.1
Brown, P.M. 2010. Wildfire risk and ecological restoration in mixed-severity fire regimes. In M. Stoffel, M. Bollschweiler, D.R. Butler and B.H. Luckman (editors), Tree-ring Reconstructions in Natural Hazards Research: A State-of-the-Art. Advances in Global Change Research Series, Springer (pages 361-3).
Swetnam, T.L., and P.M. Brown. 2010. Comparing selected Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) and LANDFIRE vegetation model results to tree-ring data. International Journal of Wildland Fire 19:1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF08001
Swetnam, T.W., C.H. Baisan, A.C. Caprio, P.M. Brown, R. Touchan, R.S. Anderson, and D.J. Hallett. 2009. Multi-millennial fire history from the Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California. Fire Ecology 5:120-150. http://dx.doi.org/10.4996/fireecology.0503120
Romme, W.L., 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. http://dx.doi.org/10.2111/08-188R1.1
Péwé, T.L., J.A. Westgate, S.J. Preece, P.M. Brown, and S.W. Leavitt. 2009. Late Pliocene Dawson Cut Forest Bed and new tephrochronological findings in the Gold Hill Loess, east-central Alaska. Geological Society of America Bulletin 121:294-320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/B26323.1
Brown, P.M., C.L. Wienk, and A.J. Symstad. 2008. Fire and forest history at Mount Rushmore. Ecological Applications 18:1984-1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/07-1337.1
Brown, P.M., and A.W. Schoettle. 2008. Fire and stand history in two limber pine (Pinus flexilis) and Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata) stands in Colorado. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17:339-347. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF06159
Brown, P.M., E.K. Heyerdahl, S.G. Kitchen, and M.H. Weber. 2008. Climate effects on historical fires (1630-1900) in Utah. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17:28-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF07023
Brown, P.M. 2007. What Was the Role of Fire in Coast Redwood Forests? In: Standiford, R.B., Giusti, G.A., Valachovic, Y., Zielinski, W.J., Furniss, M.J. (technical editors). Proceedings of the Redwood Region Forest Science Symposium: What Does the Future Hold? Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-194. Albany, CA: PSW Research Station, Forest Service; p. 215-218.
Brown, P.M. 2007. A modified increment borer handle for coring in locations with obstructions. Tree-Ring Research 63:61-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3959/1536-1098-63.1.61
Kitzberger, T., P.M. Brown, E.K. Heyerdahl, T.W. Swetnam, and T.T. Veblen. 2007. Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multi-century wildfire synchrony over western North America Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:543-548. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606078104
Brown, P.M. 2006. Climate effects on fire regimes and tree recruitment in Black Hills ponderosa pine forests. Ecology 87:2500-2510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2500:CEOFRA]2.0.CO;2
Binkley, D., M.M. Moore, W.H. Romme, and P.M. Brown. 2006. Was Aldo Leopold right about the Kaibab deer herd? Ecosystems 9:227-241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-005-0100-z
Brown, P.M., and B. Cook. 2006. Early settlement forest structure in Black Hills ponderosa pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 223:284-290. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2005.11.008
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/05-0034
Brown, P.M., and W.T. Baxter. 2003. Fire history in coast redwood forests of the Mendocino Coast. Northwest Science 77:147-158.
Woodhouse, C.A., J.J. Lukas, and P.M. Brown. 2002. Drought in the western Great Plains, 1845-1856: Impacts and implications. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 83(10):1485-1493. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-83-10-1485
Brown, P.M., and W.D. Shepperd. 2001. Fire history and fire climatology along a 5° gradient in latitude in Colorado and Wyoming, USA. Palaeobotanist 50:133-140.
Woodhouse, C.A., and P.M. Brown. 2001. Tree-ring evidence for Great Plains drought. Tree-Ring Research 57:89-103. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/262536
Brown, P.M., M.W. Kaye, L. Huckaby, and C. Baisan. 2001. Fire history along environmental gradients in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico: Influences of local patterns and regional processes. Écoscience 8:115-126.
Brown, P.M., D.R. D'Amico, A.T. Carpenter, and D.M. Andrews. 2001. Restoration of montane ponderosa pine forests in the Colorado Front Range: A Forest Ecosystem Management Plan for the City of Boulder. Ecological Restoration 19:19-26. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.3368/er.19.1.19
Brown, P.M., M.G. Ryan, and T.G. Andrews. 2000. Historical Fire Frequency in Ponderosa Pine Stands in Research Natural Areas, Central Rocky Mountains and Black Hills, US. Natural Areas Journal 20:133-139.
Kaufmann, M.R., Regan, C.M., and P.M. Brown. 2000. Heterogeneity in ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forests: Age and size structure in unlogged and logged landscapes of central Colorado. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30:698-711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x99-255
Brown, P.M, and C.H. Sieg. 1999. Historical variability in fire at the ponderosa pine - northern Great Plains prairie ecotone, southeastern Black Hills, South Dakota. Écoscience 6:539-547.
Brown, P.M., M.R. Kaufmann, and W.D. Shepperd. 1999. Long-term, landscape patterns of past fire events in montane ponderosa pine forest of central Colorado. Landscape Ecology 14:513-532. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008137005355
Brown, P.M., M.W. Kaye, and D. Buckley. 1999. Fire history in Douglas-fir and coast redwood forests at Point Reyes National Seashore, California. Northwest Science 73:205-216.
Brown, P.M., W.D. Shepperd, S.A. Mata, and D.L. McClain. 1998. Longevity of windthrown logs in a subalpine forest of central Colorado. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28:932-936. http:/dx.doi.org/10.1139/x98-059
Péwé, T.L., G.W. Berger, J.A. Westgate, P.M. Brown, and S.W. Leavitt. 1997. Eva Interglaciation Forest Bed, Unglaciated East-Central Alaska: Global Warming 125,000 Years Ago. Geological Society of America Special Paper 319. 54 p.
Brown, P.M., and C.H. Sieg. 1996. Fire history in interior ponderosa pine forests of the Black Hills, South Dakota, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire 6:97-105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF9960097
Savage, M.A., P.M. Brown, and J. Feddema. 1996. The role of climate in a pine forest regeneration pulse in the southwestern United States. Écoscience 3:310-318.
Brown, P.M. 1996. OLDLIST: A database of maximum tree ages. In: J.S. Dean, D.M. Meko, and T.W. Swetnam, eds., Tree Rings, Environment, and Humanity: Proceedings of the International Conference, Tucson, Arizona, 17-21 May, 1994. Radiocarbon 1996:727-731.
Hughes, M.K., R. Touchan, and P.M. Brown. 1996. A multimillennial network of giant sequoia chronologies for dendroclimatology. In: J.S. Dean, D.M. Meko, and T.W. Swetnam, eds., Tree Rings, Environment, and Humanity: Proceedings of the International Conference, Tucson, Arizona, 17-21 May, 1994. Radiocarbon 1996:225-234.
Munro, M.A.R., P.M. Brown, M.K. Hughes, and E.M.R. Garcia. 1996. Image analysis of tracheid dimensions for dendrochronological use. In: J.S. Dean, D.M. Meko, and T.W. Swetnam, eds., Tree Rings, Environment, and Humanity: Proceedings of the International Conference, Tucson, Arizona, 17-21 May, 1994. Radiocarbon 1996:843-851.
Brown, P.M., and W.D. Shepperd. 1995. Engelmann spruce tree-ring chronologies from Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado: Potential for a long-term temperature reconstruction in the central Rocky Mountains. In: R.W. Tinus, ed., Interior West Global Change Workshop, April 25-27, 1995, Fort Collins, CO. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-262:23-26.
Brown, P.M., and P.J. Krusic. 1995. The Annual North American Dendroecological Fieldweek: A workweek in applied tree-ring research. In: R.W. Tinus, ed., Interior West Global Change Workshop, April 25-27, 1995, Fort Collins, CO. USDA Forest Service General Technical Rep. RM-GTR-262:75-77.
Brown, P.M., and T.W. Swetnam. 1994. A cross-dated fire history from a stand of coast redwood near Redwood National Park, California. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 24:21-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x94-004
Brown, P.M., M.K. Hughes, C.H. Baisan, T.W. Swetnam, and A.C. Caprio. 1992. Giant sequoia ring-width chronologies from the central Sierra Nevada, California. Tree-Ring Bulletin 52:1-14.
Hughes, M.K., and P.M. Brown. 1992. Drought frequency in central California since 101 BC recorded in giant sequoia tree rings. Climate Dynamics 6:161-167. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00193528
Swetnam, T.W., and P.M. Brown. 1992. Oldest known conifers in the southwestern United State: Temporal and spatial patterns of maximum age. In M.R. Kaufmann, W.H. Moir, and R.L. Bassett (tech. coor.), Old-Growth Forests in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Regions: the Status of Our Knowledge. Proceedings of a Workshop, Portal, Arizona, March 9-13, 1992. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-213:24-38.
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