Tree Rings (IMAGE)

University of Missouri-Columbia

Tree Rings

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Past fire years are detected on trees as injuries that can be dated to the exact year using tree-ring dating methods. Shown here are fire years recorded by a single tree in central Pennsylvania.

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Michael Stambaugh, MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources

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