Most Americans learn as kids that a tree trunk is made up of rings, one for every year of the tree’s life. While science agrees with this to a large degree, it does not provide a practical tree age calculator for live trees. Calculating tree age for a backyard tree is easy if you know when it was planted and the age at planting. Often, that information is unavailable. Counting its rings can be done with a tree bore, but this can damage the tree. If you want to know how to tell the age of a tree without damaging it, read on. Tree Rings Age Did you know that calculating tree age is a science called dendrochronology. It involves the dating and study of annual rings in trees. This long word is a mix of three different terms: Dendrochronologists can count the rings of a stump, but they often […]
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