Seedling and growing environment measurements from a tree planting unit in the 2016 Cold Springs Fire, Colorado, USA

This data publication contains field measurements taken in a tree planting unit in the 2016 Cold Springs Fire near Nederland, Colorado, USA. The site was an upper montane mixed conifer forest prior to burning with predominately high severity. Seedlings of three coniferous tree species (ponderosa pine, limber pine, and Douglas-fir) were planted in spring 2018, and 300 of them (100 per species) were permanently marked. The 300 seedlings were assessed for survival at the end of one and three growing seasons after planting. Additionally, during and/or at the end of the fourth growing season after planting, a variety of the seedlings' characteristics were recorded, including survival, height, and height growth, as were a variety of characteristics of the seedlings' growing environment, including aspect, shade object presence, and microtopographic depression presence.
These data were collected to examine how some facets of the growing environment affect the survival and growth of tree seedlings planted after wildfire.
For more information about this study and these data, see Marshall et al. (2023). These data were published on 04/21/2023. On 04/28/23 the metadata was updated to include reference to newly published article.