Perhaps you’ve wandered through a forest or strolled into a neighborhood park and found tree trunks — and wondered if counting the rings on a trunk is truly a way to know the tree's age. "Most of us ...

Horizontal cross sections cut through a trunk of a tree can tell us a little about the history of a tree in its own time ...

Perhaps you’ve wandered through a forest or strolled into a neighborhood park and found tree trunks — and wondered if counting the rings on a trunk is truly a way to know the tree’s age. “Most of us ...

Most people are familiar with the notion that "tree rings" — the concentric bands visible on a cross-section of a tree's trunk — serve as an indicator of a tree's age. Researchers at the University of ...

Frank's rings reveal clues about past climate conditions — whether periods were cold or dry as the tree developed.

A processed cross-section of Longleaf pine shows the dark bands of the late-season wood. (Image courtesy of Justin Maxwell) The rings within a tree's trunk can tell a story filled to the brim with ...

My landscape company was just working on my garden and finished edging all the beds and tree rings. Should I be concerned about the soil piled up against the base of my trees? — Jacob Anderson, ...