Tree rings function as interpretable historical records on the landscape.
Evidence
The tree rings shown in the accompanying photograph are another of such signs in the woods, for they show how the climate has changed through the years in the Cross section of tree, showing rings that tell us stories about the years of the tree’s life and its age. — Vinson Brown, Reading the Woods, 116
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Dated trash, tree rings, and aerial photos can establish when contamination began. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action , 1729; Ring width records year-to-year moisture and reveals cyclic drought patterns. — Vinson Brown, Reading the Woods: Seeing More in…, 119; Field observation can date land abandonment from tree growth records — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 207 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Field observation can date land abandonment from tree growth records
#corroborates(0.95) — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 207 - A reasoned whole picture transforms scattered facts into landscape meaning
#expands(0.85) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 123 - Landscape reading answers some histories while opening further questions
#complicates(0.80) — Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics, 28 - Provenance connecting ancestors to specific land constituted proof enough for her
#complicates(0.80) — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 551 - Aerial landscape reading reveals clear-cut forests as fragmented mosaic scraps expressing social indecision.
#expands(0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 563