TY - JOUR
T1 - Historical dendroarchaeology of two log structures in the Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico, USA
AU - de Graauw, Kristen K.
AU - Towner, Ronald H.
AU - Grissino-Mayer, Henri D.
AU - Kessler, Nicholas V.
AU - Knighton-Wisor, Jonathan
AU - Steffen, Anastasia
AU - Doerner, James P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported by the North American Dendroecological Fieldweek through National Science Foundation grant number 1061501 . We thank the fieldweek coordinator, James H. Speer, for his dedication to NADEF and the advancement of future dendrochronologists. We thank the Valles Caldera National Preserve and Science and Education Center for granting us access to the structures and being gracious hosts to our field crew. We would also like to thank R. Touchan, C.A. Woodhouse, D.M. Meko, and C. Allen for contributing their chronology (NM587) to the ITRDB for future scientific uses such as ours. We thank three anonymous reviewers who provided constructive critiques that improved our paper. Lastly, thanks to Amy Hessl, John Burkhart, Shawn Cockrell, Alex Dye, and Joseph James for their comments and technical support.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier GmbH.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We used dendroarchaeological techniques to determine the year of construction of two historic structures in the Valles Caldera National Preserve of New Mexico, USA Historical documents date some structures in the headquarters area of the Preserve, but the Commissary Cabin and Salt Barn were lacking conclusive construction dates Both structures were originally thought to have been built by the Otero family who bought the property in 1899 We found that the structures were built from two tree species, white fir (Abies concolor (Gordon) Lindl ex Hildebr.) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco), surprising given that ponderosa pines are also found in great numbers in the adjacent forest Tree rings from 20 logs were confidently crossdated both graphically and statistically and provided cutting dates of trees in both structures of 1940 and 1941 when compared against the Fenton Lake reference chronology (Commissary Cabin: r= 0.69, t= 15.54, p< 0.0001, n= 263 years; Salt Barn: r= 0.77, t= 11.7, p< 0.0001,
AB - We used dendroarchaeological techniques to determine the year of construction of two historic structures in the Valles Caldera National Preserve of New Mexico, USA Historical documents date some structures in the headquarters area of the Preserve, but the Commissary Cabin and Salt Barn were lacking conclusive construction dates Both structures were originally thought to have been built by the Otero family who bought the property in 1899 We found that the structures were built from two tree species, white fir (Abies concolor (Gordon) Lindl ex Hildebr.) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco), surprising given that ponderosa pines are also found in great numbers in the adjacent forest Tree rings from 20 logs were confidently crossdated both graphically and statistically and provided cutting dates of trees in both structures of 1940 and 1941 when compared against the Fenton Lake reference chronology (Commissary Cabin: r= 0.69, t= 15.54, p< 0.0001, n= 263 years; Salt Barn: r= 0.77, t= 11.7, p< 0.0001,
KW - Baca Ranch
KW - Douglas-fir
KW - Historical dendroarchaeology
KW - New Mexico
KW - Partido system
KW - White fir
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U2 - 10.1016/j.dendro.2014.08.001
DO - 10.1016/j.dendro.2014.08.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84926040955
SN - 1125-7865
VL - 32
SP - 336
EP - 342
JO - Dendrochronologia
JF - Dendrochronologia
IS - 4
ER -