It seems that
this particular stand of trees could be up to 4000 years old.
My personal opinion not worth much and based upon nothing other than I have grown a few things, is that tree - ring proxies are indicative of little other than hoe felicitous the local conditions were to the welfare of
that particular stand of trees.
Not exact matches
I do not suggest that the rights
of a
particular tree or mountain, field or stream will always prevail, any more than the wants
of a
particular person can always be honored when they
stand against the needs
of a larger society.
Following fire, managers sometimes thin recovering forests, which can encourage growth
of large
trees and can even decrease the susceptibility
of particular stands to beetle attacks.
A new ring grows on a
tree every cycle
of the seasons, meaning each ring
stands for a
particular year.
While the relatively small region
of Crocodile Isle's Gloomy Gulch features mist - filled groves,
trees with frightening faces, Kloaks haunting your every turn, and an eerie atmosphere with excellently fitting music all around, one part in
particular stands out to me: the Haunted Hall.
Each series (a site chronology) consists
of multiple
trees from a single site (a collection
of stands,
trees from individual plots) which give a history for a
particular area, usually a few km square.