Refereed Articles, Proceedings Papers, and Book Chapters:

Madany, M. H., T. W. Swetnam, and N. West
1982.  Comparison of two approaches for determining fire dates from tree scars.  Forest Science 28(4):856-861. pdf file 98K

Swetnam, T. W.
1983.  Gila fire history suggests restoration may require planned ignitions.  Restoration and Management Notes 1(4):286.

Swetnam, T. W.
1984.  Peeled ponderosa pine trees: A record of inner bark utilization by Native Americans.  Journal of Ethnobiology 4(2):177-190. pdf file 327K

Dieterich, J. H., and T. W. Swetnam
1984.  Dendrochronology of a fire scarred ponderosa pine.  Forest Science 30(1):238-247. pdf file 357K

Swetnam, T. W., and J. H. Dieterich 
1985.  Fire history of ponderosa pine forests in the Gila Wilderness, New Mexico.  In: J. E. Lotan, B. M. Kilgore, W. C. Fischer, and R. W. Mutch, Tech. Coords., Proceedings-Symposium and Workshop on Wilderness Fire, November 15-18, 1983, Missoula, Montana.  USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report INT-182:390-397. pdf file 748K

Swetnam, T. W., M. A. Thompson, and E. K. Sutherland 
1985.  Using dendrochronology to measure radial growth of defoliated trees.  USDA Forest Service, Agriculture Handbook 639.  39 p. PDF File 2,683K

Swetnam, T. W. 
1987.  Western spruce budworm outbreaks in northern New Mexico: occurrence  and radial growth impacts from 1700 to 1983.  In: G. C. Jacoby and J. W. Hornbeck, Compilers, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ecological Aspects of Tree-Ring Analysis, August 17-21, 1986, Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York, U. S. DOE CONF-8608144, pp. 130-141. pdf file 684K

Swetnam, T. W.
1987.  Western spruce budworm outbreaks in Northern New Mexico: A dendroecology case study.  In: A. A. Lucier, ed., Tree Rings and Forest Mensuration: How Can They Document Trends in Forest Health?, Proceedings of a workshop, April 9-11, 1987, Tucson, Arizona. National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement, Technical Bulletin 523.

Biondi, F., and T. W. Swetnam
1988.  Box-Jenkins models of forest interior tree-ring chronologies.  Tree-Ring Bulletin 47:71-96. pdf file 1.6M

Fritts, H. C., and T. W. Swetnam
1989.  Dendroecology: A tool for evaluating variations in past and present forest environments.  Advances in Ecological Research Vol. 19:111-189.

Swetnam, T. W., A. M. Lynch
1989. A Tree-Ring reconstruction of western spruce budworm outbreaks in the Southern Rocky Mountains.  Forest Science 35(4):962-986. pdf file 358K

Baisan, C. H., and T. W. Swetnam
1990.  Fire history on a desert mountain range: Rincon Mountain Wilderness, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 20:1559-1569.

Hughes, M. K., B. Richards, T. W. Swetnam, and C. H. Baisan
1990.  Can a climate record be extracted from giant sequoia tree rings?  In J. L. Betancourt and A. M. MacKay, eds., Proceedings of the Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop, Asilomar, California, March 5-8, 1989: California Department of Water Resources, Interagency Ecological Studies Program Technical Report 32:111-114.

Savage, M., and T. W. Swetnam
1990.  Early and persistent fire decline in a Navajo ponderosa pine forest.  Ecology 70(6):2374-2378. pdf file 1.1M

Swetnam, T. W. 
1990. Fire History and climate in the Southwestern United States in J. S. Krammes, Tech. Coord, Proceedings of Symposium on Effects of Fire in Management of Southwestern U. S. Natural Resources, November 15-17, 1988, Tucson, Arizona. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report. RM-191:6-17. pdf file 1,038K

Swetnam, T. W., and J. L. Betancourt
1990.  Fire-Southern Oscillation relations in the Southwestern United States. Science 249:1017-1020.  pdf file 379K

Swetnam, T. W., and J. L. Betancourt 
1990. ENSO variability and forest fires in the Southwestern United States. In J. L. Betancourt and A. M. MacKay, eds.,Proceedings of the Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop, Asilomar, California, March 5-8, 1989: California department of Water Resources, Interagency Ecological Studies Program Technical Report 32:129-134. pdf file 589K

Van Pelt, N. S., and T. W. Swetnam
1990. Conservation and stewardship of tree-ring study resources: Subfossil wood and living trees.  Natural Areas Journal 10(1):19-27.

Stephenson, N. L., D. J. Parsons, and T. W. Swetnam 
1991. Restoring natural fire to the sequoia-mixed conifer forest: Should intense fire play a role? pages 321-337 In Proceedings of 17th Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference, Tallahassee Florida, May 18-21, 1989.  pdf file 189

Swetnam, T. W., R. Touchan, C. H. Baisan, A. C. Caprio, P. M. Brown
1991  Giant sequoia fire history in the Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park. pages 249-255 In: Yosemite Centennial Symposium: Prospects for the Future, October 13-20, 1990. National Parks Service, Denver Service Center,NPS D-374. pdf file 99K

Swetnam, T. W. and 9 other authors (all listed alphabetically)
1991.  Biosphere-Climate Interactions during the past 18,000 years: Towards a Global Model of the Terrestrial Biosphere.  pages 25-42, In: R. S. Bradley, ed., Global Changes of the Past, Papers arising from the 1989 OIES Global Change Institute, Snowmass, Colorado, 24 July - 4 August, 1989.  UCAR/Office for Interdisciplinary Earth Studies.

Brown, P. M., M. K. Hughes, C. H. Baisan, T. W. Swetnam, and A.C. Caprio
1992. Giant sequoia ring-width chronologies from the central Sierra Nevada, California. Tree-Ring Bulletin 52:1-14. pdf file 810K

Lynch, A. M., and T. W. Swetnam
1992. Old-growth mixed conifer and western spruce budworm in the Southern Rocky Mountains. In: M. R. Kauffman, W. H. Moir, and R. L. Bassett, tech. coords., Old Growth Forests in the Southwest an Rocky Mountain Regions, Proceedings of a Workshop, March 9-13, 1992, Portal, Arizona. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-213:66-80.

Swetnam, T. W., C. H. Baisan, A. C. Caprio, and P. M. Brown 
1992. Fire history in a Mexican oak-pine woodland and adjacent montane conifer gallery forest in southeastern Arizona. In: P. F. Ffolliott, G. J. Gottfried, D. A. Bennett, V. M. Hernandez, A. Ortega-Rubio, and R. H. Hamre, tech. coords., Ecology and Management of Oak and Associated Woodlands: Perspectives in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico, April 27-30, 1992, Sierra Vista, Arizona. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-218:165-173. pdf file 617K

Swetnam, T. W., and J. L. Betancourt
1992.  Temporal patterns of El Niño/Southern Oscillation - wildfire patterns in the southwestern United States. pages 259-270 In Diaz H. F. and V. M. Markgraf, eds., El Niño: Historical and Paleoclimatic Aspects of the Southern Oscillation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Swetnam, T. W., and P. M. Brown 
1992. Oldest known conifers in the Southwestern United States: Temporal and spatial patterns of maximum age. In: M. R. Kauffman, W. H. Moir, and R. L. Bassett, tech. coords., Old Growth Forests in the Southwest an Rocky Mountain
Regions, Proceedings of a Workshop, March 9-13, 1992, Portal, Arizona. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-213:24-38. pdf file 1,073K

Huante, P., E. Rincon, and T. W. Swetnam
1993. Dendrochronology of Abies religiosa in Michoacan, Mexico.  Tree-Ring Bulletin 50:15-28. pdf file 507K

Swetnam, T. W.
1993.  Fire history and climate change in giant sequoia groves. Science. 262:885-889. pdf file 446K

Swetnam, T. W., and A. M. Lynch
1993.   Multi-century, regional-scale patterns of western spruce budworm history. Ecological Monographs 63(4):399-424). pdf file 4M

Brown, P. M., and T. W. Swetnam
1994.  A crossdated fire history in a coast redwood forest near Redwood National Park, California. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 24:21-31.

Goldammer, J. G. and T. W. Swetnam (listed alphabetically with 26 other authors)
1994.  Fire in the boreal ecosystems of Eurasia: First results of the Bor Forest Island Fire Experiment, Fire Research Campaign Asia-North (FIRESCAN).  World Resources Review 6(4):499-523.

Perkins, D. L., and T. W. Swetnam
1994. Long-term dynamics of whitebark pine: tree-ring studies in central Idaho. Pages 25 to 29 In: K.C. Kendall, B. Coen, B. Keane, B. Donner, and K. Brewer, tech. coords. Workshop Proceedings: Research and Management in Whitebark Pine Ecosystems, Glacier National Park, Montana,  National Biological Survey and USDA Forest Service Intermountain Research Station.

Wickman, B. E., R. R. Mason, and T. W. Swetnam
1994. pages 251-261.  Searching for long-term patterns of forest insect outbreaks. In: S. R. Leather, K. F. A. Walters, N. J. Mills, and A. D. Watt, eds., Individuals, Populations and Patterns in Ecology, Intercept Press, Andover, United Kingdom.

Baisan, C. H., and T. W. Swetnam 
1995. Historical fire occurrence patterns in remote mountains of Southwestern New Mexico and northern Mexico. In: J. K. Brown, R. W. Mutch, C. W. Spoon, and R. H. Wakimoto, tech. coords., Proceedings: Symposium on Fire in Wilderness and Park Management, Missoula, MT, March 30-April 1, 1993,. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT-320:153-156. pdf file 317K

Caprio, A. C., and T. W. Swetnam 
1995. Historic fire regimes along an elevational gradient on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, California. In: J. K. Brown, R. W. Mutch, C. W. Spoon, and R. H. Wakimoto, tech. coords., Proceedings: Symposium on Fire in Wilderness and Park Management, Missoula, MT, March 30-April 1, 1993,. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT-320:173-179. PDF File 386K

Gottfried, G. J., T. W. Swetnam, C. D. Allen, J. L. Betancourt, and A. L. Chung-McCoubrey 
1995.  Chapter 6, Pinyon-juniper woodlands, pages 95 to 132, In D. M. Finch and J. A. Tainter, tech. eds., Ecology, Diversity, and Sustainability of the Middle Rio Grande Basin. General Technical Report RM-GTR-268. U. S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station.  186 p. (See note above under Swetnam et al. 1995 paper.) pdf file 2,620K

Grissino-Mayer, H. D., C. H. Baisan, and T. W. Swetnam 
1995. Fire history in the Pinaleno Mountains of Southeastern Arizona: Effects of human-related disturbances. In L. Debano et al. tech. coords., Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands of Southwestern United States and Northwestern New Mexico, September 19-23, 1994, Tucson, Arizona, USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-264:399-407. pdf file

Grissino-Mayer, H. D., and T. W. Swetnam 
1995. Effects of habitat diversity on fire regimes in El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico. In: J. K. Brown, R. W. Mutch, C. W. Spoon, and R. H. Wakimoto, tech. coords., Proceedings: Symposium on Fire in Wilderness and Park Management, Missoula, MT, March 30-April 1, 1993,. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT-320:195-200. pdf file 567K

Mutch, L., and T. W. Swetnam 
1995. Effects of fire severity and climate on ring-width growth of giant sequoia after burning. In: J. K. Brown, R. W. Mutch, C. W. Spoon, and R. H. Wakimoto, tech. coords., Proceedings: Symposium on Fire in Wilderness and Park Management, Missoula, MT, March 30-April 1, 1993,. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT-320:241-246. PDF file 115K

Ortloff, W., J. G. Goldammer, F. H. Schweingruber, and T. W. Swetnam
1995.  Fire history study in a stand of Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex LAWS. in the Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, U.S.A., by means of tree-ring analysis.  Forstarchiv 66:206-214. [in German]

Swetnam, T. W., B. E. Wickman, H. G. Paul, and C. H. Baisan
1995.  Historical patterns of western spruce budworm and Douglas-fir tussock moth outbreaks in the Northern Blue Mountains, Oregon since A.D. 1700.  Research Paper PNW-RP-484.  Portland, OR: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 27 p.

Touchan, R., T. W. Swetnam, and H. D. Grissino-Mayer 
1995. Effects of livestock grazing on pre-settlement fire regimes in New Mexico. In: J. K. Brown, R. W. Mutch, C. W. Spoon, and R. H. Wakimoto, tech. coords., Proceedings: Symposium on Fire in Wilderness and Park Management, Missoula, MT, March 30-April 1, 1993,. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT-320:268-272. pdf file 605K

Allen, C. D., R. Touchan, and T. W. Swetnam
1996. Overview of fire history in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico.  pp.35-36, in The Jemez Mountains Region : New Mexico Geological Society, Forty-seventh Annual Field Conference, September 25-28, eds. Fraser Goff, B. S. Kues, M. A. Rogers, L. D. McFadden, and J. N. Gardner.  Albuquerque, N.M

Danzer, S. R., C. H., and T. W. Swetnam 
1996. The influence of fire and land use history on stand dynamics in the Huachuca Mountains of Southeastern Arizona. In P. F. Ffolliott et al. tech. coords., Effects of fire on Madrean Province Ecosystems, A symposium proceedings, USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-289:265-270.  PDF File 500K

Goldammer, J. G. and T. W. Swetnam (listed alphabetically with 8 other authors)
1996. Fire in ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia: The Bor Island Fire Experiment Fire Research Campaign: Asia-North (FIRESCAN). Chapter 81, pages 848-873, In J. S. Levine, Biomass Burning and Global Change, Vol. 2. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Kaib, J. M., C. H. Baisan, H. D. Grissino-Mayer, and T. W. Swetnam 
1996. Fire history in the gallery pine-oak forests and adjacent grasslands of the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. In P. F. Ffolliott et al. tech. coords., Effects of fire on Madrean Province Ecosystems, A symposium proceedings, USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-289:253-264. pdf file 670K

Perkins, D., and T. W. Swetnam
1996. A Dendroecological Assessment of Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis) in the Sawtooth-Salmon River Region of Idaho. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26:2123-2133.

Seklecki, T. M., H. D. Grissino-Mayer, and T. W. Swetnam 
1996. Fire history and the possible role of Apache-set fires in the Chiricahua Mountains of Southeastern Arizona. In P. F. Ffolliott et al. tech. coords., Effects of fire on Madrean Province Ecosystems, A symposium proceedings, USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-289:238-246. pdf file 940K

Swetnam, T. W.
1996. Fire and climate history in the Central Yenisey Region, Siberia. pages 90-104, In J. G. Goldammer and V. V. Furyaev, eds., Fire in Ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia. Kluwer Academic Publishers, London.

Swetnam, T. W. and C. H. Baisan 
1996.  Historical fire regime patterns in the Southwestern United States since AD 1700.  In C. Allen, editor, Fire effects in Southwestern Forests, Proceedings of the Second La Mesa Fire Symposium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, March 29-31, 1994. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-286:11-32. PDF file 1,974K

Swetnam, T. W. and C. H. Baisan 
1996. Fire histories of montane forests in the Madrean Borderlands. In P. F. Ffolliott et al. tech. coords., Effects of fire on Madrean Province Ecosystems, A symposium proceedings, USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-289:15-36. pdf file 1,338K

Baisan, C. H., and T. W. Swetnam 
1997. Interactions of fire regimes and land use in the Central Rio Grande Valley. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Research Paper RM-RP-330, 20 p. PDF File 2,168K

Grissino-Mayer, H. D. and T. W. Swetnam
1997. Multi-century history of wildfire in the ponderosa pine forests of El Malpais National Monument. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 156:163-171. pdf file 685K

Grissino-Mayer, H. D., T. W. Swetnam, and R. K. Adams
1997. The rare, old-aged conifers of El Malpais – Their role in understanding climatic change in the American Southwest. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 156:155-161. pdf file 541K

Wickman, B. E. and T. W. Swetnam 
1997.  Interactions of fire and defoliating insects in western forests: some multi-century patterns. In Diverse forests, abundant opportunities, and evolving realities, Proceedings of the 1996 Society of American Foresters Convention, Albuquerque, NM November 9-13, 1996. Society of American Foresters, Bethesda, MD. P. 222-227. 

Swetnam, T. W., and J. L. Betancourt
1998.  Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climatic variability in the American Southwest. Journal of Climate 11:3128-3147.  pdf file 485K

Swetnam, T. W., C. D. Allen, and J. L. Betancourt
1999. Applied historical ecology: Using the past to manage for the future. Ecological Applications 9(4):1189-1206. pdf file 485K

Allen, C. D., J. L. Betancourt, and T. W. Swetnam. 
1999. Landscape Changes in the Southwestern United States: Techniques, Long-term Data Sets, and Trends. T. Sisk, editor, Perspectives on the Land Use History of North America: A Context for Understanding our Changing Environment. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR-1998-000x. Link to Online Version of this book chapter.

Kaye, M. W. and T. W. Swetnam
1999. An assessment of fire, climate, and Apache history in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA. Physical Geography 20(4):305-330. pdf file 413K

Grissino-Mayer, H. D., and T. W. Swetnam
2000. Century scale changes in fire regimes and climate in the Southwest. The Holocene 10(2):207-214. pdf file 503K

Kipfmueller, K.F. and T. W. Swetnam 
2000.  Fire-climate interactions in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area. In Cole, D. N., S. McCool, W. T. Borrie, and J. O'Laughlin, compilers. Wilderness science in a time of change conference -- Volume 5: Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management; 1999 May 23-27; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-0-VOL5. Ogden, UT: USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. PDF file 226K

Markgraf, V., and T. W. Swetnam (listed alphabetically with 7 other authors)
2000.  Paleoclimate reconstruction along the Pole-Equator-Pole transect of the Americas. Quaternary Sciences Reviews 19:125-140.

Rollins, M. and T. W. Swetnam, and P. Morgan 
2000. Twentieth century fire patterns in the Gila/Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex New Mexico and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area Idaho/Montana. In Cole, D. N., S. McCool, W. T. Borrie, and J. O'Laughlin, compilers. Wilderness science in a time of change conference -- Volume 5: Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management; 1999 May 23-27; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-0-VOL5. Ogden, UT: USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. PDF file 260K

Barton, A. M., T. W. Swetnam and C. H. Baisan
2001. Arizona pine (Pinus arizonica) stand dynamics: local and regional factors in a fire-prone madrean gallery forest of Southeast, Arizona, USA.  Landscape Ecology 16 (4): 351-369. pdf file 458K

Díaz, S. C., R. Touchan, and T. W. Swetnam
2001.  A tree-ring reconstruction of past precipitation in northwest Mexico. International Journal of Climatology (8): 1007-1019.  pdf file 790K

Kipfmueller, K. F. and T. W. Swetnam
2001.  Using dendrochronology to reconstruct the history of ecosystems. Chapter 8, pages 199-228,  In D. Egan and E. A. Howell eds., Techniques for Discovering Historic Ecosystems. Island Press, Washington.

Kitzberger, T., T. W. Swetnam, and T. T. Veblen
2001. Inter-hemispheric synchrony of forest fires and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 10 (3): 315-326. pdf file 685K

Morgan, P., C. Hardy, T. W. Swetnam, M. G. Rollins, and D. G. Long
2001. Mapping fire regimes across time and space: Understanding coarse and fine-scale patterns. International Journal of Wildland Fire 10 (3-4): 329-342. pdf file 4.7M

Rollins, M., T. W. Swetnam and P. Morgan
2001.  Evaluating a century of fire patterns in two Rocky Mountain wilderness areas using digital fire atlases.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31(12): 2107-2123. pdf file 2.5M

Speer, J. H., T. W. Swetnam, B. E. Wickman, and A. Youngblood
2001. Changes in pandora moth outbreak dynamics during the past 622 years. Ecology 82:679–697. pdf file 623

Swetnam, T. W., C. H. Baisan, and J. M. Kaib
2001. Forest fire histories in the sky islands of La Frontera. Chapter 7, pages 95-119, In G. L. Webster and C. J. Bahre eds., Changing Plant Life of La Frontera: Observations on Vegetation in the United States/Mexico Borderlands.  University of  New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.  pdf file of manuscript 1.5M

Allen, C. D.,  M.  Savage, D. A. Falk, K. F. Suckling, T. W. Swetnam, T.  Schulke, P. B. Stacey, P.  Morgan, M.  Hoffman, and J.  Klingel
2002. Ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems: a broad perspective.  Ecological Applications 12(5):1418-1433. pdf file 719K

Betancourt, J. L., H. D. Grissino-Mayer, M. W. Salzer, and T. W. Swetnam
2002. A test of "annual resolution" in stalagmites using tree rings. Quaternary Research 58:197-199. pdf file 124K

Rollins, M. G., P. Morgan, and T. W. Swetnam
2002. Landscape-scale controls over 20th century fire occurrence in two large Rocky Mountain Wilderness Areas. Landscape Ecology 17:539-557. pdf file 3.7M

Betancourt J. L, H. D. Grissino-Mayer, M. W. Salzer, and T. W. Swetnam. 2003. Reply to Baker and Genty's comments on "A test of annual resolution in stalagmite using tree rings”. Quaternary Research 59: 479-479.

Ryerson, D., T. W. Swetnam, and A. M. Lynch
2003. Tree-ring reconstruction of western spruce budworm outbreaks in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 33:1010-1028. pdf file 799K

Swetnam, T. W. and C. H. Baisan
2003. Tree-ring reconstructions of fire and climate history in the Sierra Nevada and Southwestern United States.  pages 158-195, In:  T. T. Veblen, W. Baker, G. Montenegro, and T. W. Swetnam, editors. Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas. Ecological Studies Vol. 160. Springer, New York. pdf file 649K

Westerling, A. L., and T. W. Swetnam
2003. Interannual to decadal drought and wildfire in the Western US. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 84(49):545-560. pdf file 283K

Milne, B. T., D. I. Moore, J. L. Betancourt, J. A. Parks, T. W. Swetnam, R. R. Parmenter, and W. T. Pockman
2003.  Multidecadal drought cycles in south-central New Mexico: Patterns and consequences.  In: Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Sites, Eds., D. Greenland, D. Goodin, and R. Smith. Oxford University Press, New York.

Falk, D. A. and T. W. Swetnam. 2003. Scaling rules and probability models for surface fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests.  USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-29:301-318. pdf 1.3M

Hessburg, P. F., E. E. Kuhlman, and T. W. Swetnam
2005. Examining the recent climate through the lens of ecology: Inferences from temporal pattern analysis. Ecological Applications 15(2):440-457. pdf file 1,300k

Swetnam, T. W. 2005.  Fire histories from pine-dominant forests. In Proceedings of the Conference: Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago II: Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas, May 11-15, 2004, Tucson, AZ. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, RMRS-P-36:35-43. pdf 736K

Morehouse, B., G. Christopherson, M. Crimmins, B. Orr, J. Overpeck, T. Swetnam and S. Yool. 2006. Modeling Interactions Among Wildland Fire, Climate and Society in the Context of Climatic Variability and Change in the Southwest US. pages 58-78, In: Regional Climate Change and Variability, Impacts and Responses, M. Ruth, K. Donaghy, P. Kirshen.  Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. pdf 704K

Westerling, A. L., H. G. Hidalgo, D. R. Cayan, and T. W. Swetnam.

2006. Warming and earlier spring increase western U.S. wildfire activity. Science 313:940-943. pdf article 322K pdf supplementary material 2.5M

Wilkinson-Kaye, M., T. Swetnam, and C. Baisan. 2006.  Chapter 5. Borderlands Fire Regimes, In: Fish, P.R., S.K. Fish, and J.H.  Madsen, Perehistory and early history of the Malpais Borderlands: Archeological syntheses and recommendations. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-176, Fort Collins, CO: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 112p. pdf file 639K

Kitzberger, T., P. M. Brown, E. K. Heyerdahl, T. W. Swetnam, and T. T. Veblen.

2007. Contingent Pacific-Atlantic ocean influence on multi-century wildfire synchrony over western North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(2):543-548. pdf 2.5M

Edited Books:

Dean, J. S., D. M. Meko, and T. W. Swetnam, editors
1996. Tree Rings, Environment, and Humanity, Proceedings of the International Conference, Tucson, Arizona, 17-21 May, 1994. Radiocarbon, Tucson Arizona. 889 pp.

T. T. Veblen, W. Baker, G. Montenegro, and T. W. Swetnam. editors
2003. Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas. Ecological Studies Vol. 160. Springer, New York. 444 pp.

Published Technical Reports

Swetnam, T. W.
1984.  Radial growth analysis of western spruce budworm infested Douglas-fir trees on the Carson National Forest, New Mexico.  USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Region Forest Pest Management Report R-3 84-11:38-66.

Swetnam, T. W.
1986.  Radial growth losses in Douglas-fir and white fir caused by western spruce budworm in Northern New Mexico: 1700 to 1983.  USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Region Forest Pest Management Report R-3 86-2.  61 pp.

Swetnam, T. W., C. H. Baisan, P. M. Brown, and A. C. Caprio
1989.  Fire history of Rhyolite Canyon, Chiricahua National Monument.  USDI National Park Service, Cooperative Park Service Studies Unit Technical Report No. 32, University of Arizona, Tucson. 38 pp.

Other Publications

Swetnam, T. W., E. K. Sutherland, and M. A. Thompson
1983.  Comment on dating forest disturbances. Quaternary Research 19:400-401.

Swetnam, T. W.
1988.  Forest fire primeval. The World and I 3:236-241. pdf file 1.1M

Allen, C. D., R. Touchan, and T. W. Swetnam
1995.  A landscape-scale fire history study supports fire management actions at Bandelier National Monument. Park Science Summer 1995, pages 18-19. pdf file 1,080K

Parsons, D. J., T. W. Swetnam, and N. L. Christensen, Jr.
1999. Introduction to Invited Feature on Historical Variability Concepts in Managing Ecosystems. Ecological Applications 9(4):1177-1178.  pdf file 20K

Swetnam, T. W.
2002. Fire and climate history in the western Americas from tree rings. PAGES News, 10(1) April 2002. pdf file 1.7M

Barrett, S. W., T. W. Swetnam, and W. L. Baker.