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Ivy Academy Students Measure Tree Growth for Smithsonian

WUTC | By Mary Helen Miller
Published June 15, 2012 at 12:48 PM EDT
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Ivy Academy student Conner Phillips reads instructions for placing a dendrometer on a tree as Trent Walker looks on.

The Smithsonian Institution is collecting data from around the globe to see how climate change affects tree growth, and students at Ivy Academy in Soddy-Daisy are helping. 

They recently banded their first tree in the woods near the school grounds.

 

 

 
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Mary Helen Miller
Mary Helen Miller was a producer for Around and About from 2012 to 2013. She now works at the Chattanooga Times-Free Press.
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