Keywords: WildFireAreaNHorken1006-NHrkF3-PISY.jpg Prepared wood sample from Wild fire area N Hörken Ljusnarsberg Sweden Growth rings from 1914-2009 and the very beginning of 2010 years early wood The pine was cored from bark to bark with a Haglöf's 5 mm 400 mm increment borer The pine was damaged by the fire in high summer midsummer or early July 2006 One side died but the other one is still alive In the dead side the sap wood is affected by blue stain The heavily increasing growth rate already from late summer 2004 late wood but not early wood that year indicates that the trees around were cut at least two years before the fire The examination of the exact time needs a further dendrochronological investigation of the sounding stumps not yet done The growth rate in the healthy side of the tree seem not being very much affected by the fire event The image resolution is 2400 dpi The pith was missed with about 10 mm or 1-4 rings A diagram showing the ring widths are available File WildFireAreaNHorken1006-NHrkF3-PISY png The tree itself File WildFireAreaNHorken1006-coredPine-living side JPG File WildFireAreaNHorken1006-coredPine-deadSide JPG File WildFireAreaNHorken1006-coredPine-crown JPG Own 2010-06-07 date of sampling Taxelson 60 2 30 N 14 54 37 E Dendrochronological measurements <pre> NHrkF3 1 Wild Fire area at N Hörken PISY NHrkF3 2 Sweden Pinus sylvestris 260m 6002N1455E 1914 2009 NHrkF3 3 T Axelson NHrkF3 Heavily increased growth rate from latewood 2004 Wild fire killed the b-side summer 2006 but did not affect the growth rate for the unburnt side very much if anything NHrkF3a 1914 417 307 267 288 234 190 NHrkF3a 1920 188 205 203 178 183 175 154 155 144 154 NHrkF3a 1930 116 105 102 94 113 135 151 151 156 136 NHrkF3a 1940 85 113 100 115 90 106 140 148 165 170 NHrkF3a 1950 161 149 130 114 92 137 140 163 123 128 NHrkF3a 1960 86 82 90 75 84 92 86 99 92 88 NHrkF3a 1970 88 83 182 162 111 110 110 91 87 86 NHrkF3a 1980 99 75 77 101 101 100 138 111 101 84 NHrkF3a 1990 102 153 152 92 89 106 88 110 86 73 NHrkF3a 2000 91 58 43 65 124 251 277 329 291 168 NHrkF3a 2010 999 NHrkF3a +a very little early wood NHrkF3b 1914 321 311 293 297 243 194 NHrkF3b 1920 218 302 259 219 181 166 133 169 148 149 NHrkF3b 1930 133 100 111 105 104 99 107 141 151 168 NHrkF3b 1940 100 172 155 148 137 162 168 179 153 205 NHrkF3b 1950 194 171 137 146 113 145 124 135 98 107 NHrkF3b 1960 88 96 87 90 109 109 74 69 74 75 NHrkF3b 1970 67 74 142 134 112 116 130 84 77 103 NHrkF3b 1980 116 97 110 119 134 110 162 110 112 97 NHrkF3b 1990 107 149 128 109 120 87 66 96 65 67 NHrkF3b 2000 61 55 49 52 143 291 999 NHrkF3b +early wood </pre> Images_by_T Axelson Growth rings Dendrochronological data Wild fire area at lake Norra Hörken Pinus sylvestris wood |