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In a few yards the dark line of dog tracks led around the bole of a great pine tree that grew on the very edge of the amphitheater.βπ Image Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025 In the 1990s, a forest ecologist created a mathematical formula for estimating a sequoiaβs age based on the volume of its bole, or the trunk below the crown.βπ Image Jared Farmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
