Multi‐scale controls of historical forest‐fire regimes: new insights from fire‐scar networks

Anticipating future forest‐fire regimes under changing climate requires that scientists and natural resource managers understand the factors that control fire across space and time. Fire scars – proxy records of fires, formed in the growth rings of long‐lived trees – provide an annually accurate window into past low‐severity fire regimes. In western North America, networks of the fire‐scar records spanning centuries to millennia now include...