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Tree-Ring Data Collected in 2017 and 2018 From Cottonwood Trees Along the Wind River in Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming

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Friedman, J.M., and Thaxton, R.D., 2020, Tree-Ring Data Collected in 2017 and 2018 From Cottonwood Trees Along the Wind River in Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9S1UIAL.

Summary

This dataset contains tree-ring data from plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides subsp. monilifera), narrowleaf cottonwood (Populus angustifolia) and their hybrids collected from floodplains within the Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming in 2017 and 2018. Samples were collected from trees at three sites: the Wind River upstream of Boysen Reservoir (latitude 43.127 N, longitude -108.232 W), the Wind River downstream of Diversion Dam (latitude 43.219 N, longitude -108.940 W) and Owl Creek near Arapaho Ranch, latitude 43.725 N, longitude -108.570 W. There are 3 files. Cottonwood_Wind_Tree_Data.csv contains descriptive information about each of the sampled trees, Cottonwood_Wind_Ring_Widths contains the tree-ring widths in Tucson format, [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Jonathan M Friedman
Originator :
Jonathan M Friedman, Richard D Thaxton
Metadata Contact :
Jonathan M Friedman
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Fort Collins Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Cottonwood_Wind_READ_ME.txt 2.66 KB text/plain
Cottonwood_Wind_Ring_Widths 231.68 KB text/plain
Cottonwood_Wind_Tree_Data.csv 8.13 KB text/csv

Purpose

The data were collected to learn how annual cottonwood growth relates to flow, precipitation and temperature. Because ring width at the Boysen Site is strongly correlated with flow, the ring width data can be used to reconstruct flow in the Wind River before the beginning of the instrumental record. Ring width data can be compared to recollections of Tribal Members to better understand the history of drought on the Wind River Reservation and to develop response plans for future droughts.

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