ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST >> If trees could talk about the weather, Dave Meko would be out of a job. Meko, a professor from the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, has made a career ...
How do you determine the age of a tree? Just count the rings, of course! One ring equals one year of growth. If you’ve ever stumbled upon a tree stump you may have even done it yourself. But if you’re ...
Turns out tree rings can do more than just tell you how old a tree is. Researchers have found they can also help track Pacific storms over centuries. That could help out water managers and climate ...
In a recently published paper, PhD student Ellen Waddle and her coauthors provide some clarity on a decades-old problem When researching what drives the growth of small populations, ecologists ...
This cross section of a sequoia in Yosemite National Park in California has markers identifying the dates of tree rings. Jared Farmer What and where are the oldest known trees on the planet? If you ...
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Mike Cooperstein and Jason Konigsberg maneuvered a 6-foot long cross-cut saw with menacing teeth into position Tuesday on a hulking spruce trunk that was ripped out of the ground ...
ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST >> If trees could talk about the weather, Dave Meko would be out of a job. Meko, a professor from the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, has made a career ...