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Each ring is one year. You can tell what the weather was like on any year of the trees life by the width of the ring.

Unfortunately the tree is usually cut down by the time you can see them.

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Yes. You can count the rings in the trunk, either after it is felled or by taking a core from the trunk while the tree is alive.

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