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Use these resources to continue learning about timber dating, tree-rings and dendrochronology. Ask your local library for additional reading recommendations.

Online

Build a Tree-Ring Timeline
Would you make a great dendrochronologist? Test your skill with an interactive activity from the PBS science program NOVA. Just put the tree-ring samples in correct sequence, and build a 180-year record of time.
It's not as easy as it sounds...click here

Laboratory of Tree-ring Research

Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pages

Bristlecone Pines & Dendrochronology

NOVA: Methuselah Tree

In Print

An Introduction to Tree Ring Dating, Marvin A. Stokes and Terah L. Smiley, University of Arizona Press, 1996.

Conifers of California, Ronald M. Lanner, Cachuma Press, 1999.

A Garden of Bristlecones: Tales of Change in the Great Basin, Michael P. Cohen, University of Nevada Press, 1998.