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Life can be pretty tough on a tree! Drought, excessive rain, fire, insect plagues and disease epidemics, injuries, thinning, air pollution, all leave their mark on a tree’s annual growth rings.
Trees are top-notch biological indicators. Their annual rings reveal the events that have occurred in our environment.
Would you like to know more about annual rings?