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BOB OWEN/rowen@express-news.netRichard Casteel, a graduate student from the University of Texas at Austin, searches for a nearly 6-century-old baldcypress tree along the Blanco River near Wimberley on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010.- Watch the video: Old Tree Study
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BOB OWEN/rowen@express-news.netBaldcypress tress tower towards the sky along the Blanco River. The tree at the lower right is 579 years old.- Watch the video: Old Tree Study
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BOB OWEN/rowen@express-news.netTodd Votteler of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) uses a GPS device to locate the old tree his team had discovered on a previous trip.- Watch the video: Old Tree Study
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BOB OWEN/rowen@express-news.netCasteel surveys baldcypress tress along the Blanco River in Wimberly. A team of scientists from UT is drilling holes in the oldest trees to help the GBRA better understand droughts in Texas.- Watch the video: Old Tree Study
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BOB OWEN/rowen@express-news.netCasteel uses a drill to take a core sample from the nearly 6-century-old baldcypress along the Blanco River near Wimberley. Researchers took several 2-millimeter-thick core samples from the tree.- Watch the video: Old Tree Study
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BOB OWEN/rowen@express-news.netCasteel uses a drill to take a core sample from the nearly 6-century-old baldcypress along the Blanco River near Wimberley. The samples are taken by drilling perpendicular to the trunk and aiming for the center.- Watch the video: Old Tree Study
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BOB OWEN/rowen@express-news.netWater streams from a hole drilled into the baldcypress to obtain a core sample from the tree. The water tasted and smelled of decaying wood. That's a common occurrence with the old trees, which often have rotten cores that become mini water towers. Sometimes, the water pressure is so great that the trees actually eject the core samples at the researchers.- Watch the video: Old Tree Study
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BOB OWEN/rowen@express-news.netCasteel removes the core sample taken from the nearly 6-century-old baldcypress. The dowel will be placed in a plastic tube and shipped to the lab.- Watch the video: Old Tree Study
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BOB OWEN/rowen@express-news.netGBRA's Votteler (left) and Casteel inspect the core sample taken from the nearly 6-century-old baldcypress. Narrow rings correlate to dry years; wide rings mean wet years.- Watch the video: Old Tree Study
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