The tree in the libary.

The biggest tree cookie in town.

  There is a tree cookie in our library.  Ron Richter was the one that brought it here.  He found the tree cookie in Montana.  He thinks it’s a Ponderosa Pine from the west fork of the Bitter Root Valley.   The tree started to grow in 1512 and the tree died in 1992. The Ponderosa Pine was 480 years old. It has a paper on it that tells when it was born and when it died. There’s a lot of history on it. The paper was written when Ron Richter was helping build the school.

The tree has rings that tell how old it is. Dendrochronology is how to tell time by a tree.  I want to be a Dendrochronology person when I get older and grow up.