Rocky Mountain Treering Research is a nonprofit research organization founded in 1997 by Peter Brown. The organization specializes in treering collection, dating analysis, and various research topics related to fire, forest history, climatology, ecosystem ecology, restoration management, and more.
The website provides publications on treering basics, trip reports from different expeditions, useful links related to treerings, and information about the OldList database. The OldList database contains records of the known maximum ages of individual trees from various species around the world.
The website also highlights Eastern OldList focused on trees found in Eastern regions and is maintained by Neil Pederson at Harvard Forest colleagues Virginia Tech Tree Program. Additionally, there are photographs and descriptions of trips taken for both work and leisure purposes.
In summary, Rocky Mountain Treering Research is dedicated to providing expertise in treering analysis to answer fundamental and applied questions regarding fire dynamics, forest history, climatology patterns as well as ecosystem ecology for restoration management purposes.
