Dendrohydrology, the study of past hydroclimate using tree rings, has been largely motivated by water resources management. The field traces back to Hardman and Reil (1936), who recognized that instrumental records were too short to understand drought trends and demonstrated that better understanding could be gained from exploring the links between tree rings and streamflow. Their work was motivated by contemporary droughts in California that affected irrigation. At the same time, Hawley (1937) found strong correlations between tree rings and streamflow in Tennessee, USA, and was probably the first to show the lagged relationship of streamflow to tree rings. Also to understand droughts, Schulman (1945) established a tree ring chronology for the Colorado River Basin, this time motivated by the war effort-to examine Hoover Dam's hydropower production reliability to meet wartime demand. While these early works stopped at studying tree ring indices, dendrohydrology took a big step when Stockton (1971), leveraging advanced multivariate techniques (Fritts et al., 1971), showed that reconstructing streamflow record back in time was feasible-long term surface water availability could now be quantified directly. Soon, multiple streamflow reconstructions were developed across the Colorado River Basin (Stockton & Jacoby, 1976), revealing the