Virtual Museum of Canada
Jardin botanique de Montréal 
Centre for Forest Research

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Photo of the taking of an increment core from a tree

© Caroline Tanguay
The increment borer enters a tree trunk.

You push in the borer, just about to the centre of the tree.

Then you push in a core extractor tray, you break the core by giving it a half-turn.

You take out the tray, and the core comes with it.


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