section-line land-survey fire reconstruction (Animalia)

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Method synopsis

Uses historical government land survey records from 1876-1892 to reconstruct fire locations and calculate fire rotation based on burned area and observation period.

Synthesized from method descriptions across 1 paper using this protocol.

Procedure from a recent peer-reviewed implementation

Steps below were extracted from the most recent peer-reviewed implementation of this protocol in the corpus — Scaling Landscape Fire History: Wildfires Not Historically Frequent in the Main Population of Threatened Gunnison Sage-Grouse (2024), Fire. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.

1. Download and process land-survey data
   Downloaded section-line land-survey records from Bukowski and Baker study area (See Data Availability), covering 3640 line segments with 3305 km total length and mean segment length of 0.91 km. Reclassified vegetation descriptions into sagebrush, sagebrush with trees, other, and not recorded categories
   Quantities: 3640 line segments, 3305 km total length, 0.91 km mean segment lengthDuration: Survey period 1876-1892 with median in 1880Conditions: Historical land survey data from 22-35 year observation period
   Equipment: ArcGIS Pro 3.2
2. Clip and calculate fire areas
   Clipped Bukowski and Baker fire reconstruction polygons with study area boundary, recalculated areas of fire polygons, and compiled dataset of fire size distribution attributes using statistical software
   Quantities: 60 fire reconstruction polygons analyzedDuration: Not specifiedConditions: GIS spatial analysis
   Equipment: ArcGIS Pro 3.2, Minitab 21.4.2

Typical Equipment

• ArcGIS Pro 3.2

Output Measurements

• fire locations
• fire sizes
• fire rotation

Papers Using This Protocol (1)

Species Studied With This Protocol