WELCOME!
Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research
is a nonprofit research organization founded in 1997 by Peter
Brown. We provide expertise in tree-ring
collection, dating, and analysis to answer
a variety of basic and applied questions in fire
and forest history, paleoclimatology,
and forest ecology and management. Our
Projects page has more information about current and
recent studies, and recent publications can be found
here.
Our
Basics Pages are constantly
being updated with some practical information on sampling, sample preparation, and
how to keep your increment borers clean and sharp.
Please browse our
Image
Gallery of tree-ring and other photos related
to forest ecology (added to sporadically). Click on these or any of the other images on the site
for larger versions. Feel free to use any of these
images in non-commercial applications (although I would like
to know where they are used), but contact me before any
commercial use.
Several additions
have been made to
OLDLIST,
the database of maximum tree ages.
Also have a look at the
Eastern OLDLIST focused on old trees in the eastern US, maintained by
Dr. Neil Pederson at Eastern Kentucky University.
For further
information:
Dr. Peter M. Brown, Director
Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research
2901 Moore Lane,
Ft. Collins, CO 80526 USA
Phone/Fax: 970.229.9557
E-mail: pmb [at] rmtrr [dot] org |
A fire-scarred ponderosa pine from Mount Rushmore National
Memorial, Black Hills, South Dakota
(click for a larger version)
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