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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: May 12, 2018
Caption: A Story of Fires... to be continued Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (lower left) Pollen in bog sediment layers show that plant communities have not change in Trail Creek in 4,000 years. The forest is dominated by lodgepole pine. ONE TREE'S STORY Each ring represents a year in the life of this lodgepole pine. It was a mature tree when it was cut down in 2000 and is estimated to have grown for 132 years. It was a seedling in 1868. A fire burned one side in 1885. The fire scar healed until it was just a slender crease in the tree's trunk. This blue stain is from fungus introduced by a beetle.
Submitted: September 24, 2018, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p446513
File Size: 3.648 Megabytes

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