evo
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- Location
- My Island, WA
As a personal ‘side’ project I’m looking to document historical fires on the southern half of my island.
I can go on and on, but it seems that the last major historic droughts in the PNW were about 500 years ago. In the last little bit of old growth seems to be fairly even aged (the biggest oldest) at 470 years old. There are many old cedar snags that are literally like chimneys that you can walk inside.
Other areas have layers of charcoal just a few inches into the soils. It’s my understanding that there was a epic fire before white folks that leveled most of the island, and since then smaller patches of fire that have left very few areas untouched.
I’ve read descriptions which made the whole puget sound seem like moridor, thousands of micro saw mills with conveyors carrying slash and sawdust into giant burn pits 24/7/365.
Down the street in the valley there is a lake, it is a peat bog, which caught fire and burned for years. Finally the farmers (likely the ones who started it) ditched and redirected a creek to put the fire out. It worked and now is a lake.
So does anyone know where a private citizen can send samples for carbon dating?
@JD3000 @Ksmith
I can go on and on, but it seems that the last major historic droughts in the PNW were about 500 years ago. In the last little bit of old growth seems to be fairly even aged (the biggest oldest) at 470 years old. There are many old cedar snags that are literally like chimneys that you can walk inside.
Other areas have layers of charcoal just a few inches into the soils. It’s my understanding that there was a epic fire before white folks that leveled most of the island, and since then smaller patches of fire that have left very few areas untouched.
I’ve read descriptions which made the whole puget sound seem like moridor, thousands of micro saw mills with conveyors carrying slash and sawdust into giant burn pits 24/7/365.
Down the street in the valley there is a lake, it is a peat bog, which caught fire and burned for years. Finally the farmers (likely the ones who started it) ditched and redirected a creek to put the fire out. It worked and now is a lake.
So does anyone know where a private citizen can send samples for carbon dating?
@JD3000 @Ksmith