Season and interval of burning and cattle exclusion in the southern Blue Mountains, Oregon: Overstory tree height, diameter and growth

These data document overstory tree height, diameter and growth for a prescribed burning study with unburned controls on the Malheur National Forest in the southern Blue Mountains of Oregon. The original prescribed fires were conducted in the fall of 1997 and spring of 1998 and were repeated at two intervals, five and fifteen years. Five year interval reburns have been repeated three times (four burns total) and the fifteen year interval a single time (two burns total). These data document tree conditions prior to and following the last reburns with reference data for tree growth from 1998. Tree diameter data are available on 10 meter radius plots and diameter, height and growth data are available on 0.2 hectare plots.Overstory tree data were collected to examine the impact of: 1) season of burn (fall, spring and no burning) at two intervals (5 and 15 years), and 2) season of burn (fall, spring and control), 5-year interval reburning and cattle grazing.Original metadata date was 08/28/2017. On 05/04/2021 minor metadata updates were made to keywords.