The Visitor Centre in Radium Hot Spring is located at 7556 Main Street East with easy access from Highway 95.
We stopped by for tourist information and was greeted by a very friendly and helpful young lady that answered all you questions. We then proceeded upstairs to see the displays. It was a very pleasant surprise to see the animal displays, a timeline about the Ktunaxa Nation, and several displays about the impact of fires in the region. This tree ring is one of the displays.
There is information about the tree ring as follows
Four hundred year fire history are "written” on this western larch.
The fine circular lines on this tree section are "growth rings''. Each ring equals one year of growth. The curved "cauliflower" shapes on the bottom edge are "fire scars".
Fire scars result from periodic low-intensity surface fires that do not kill mature larch trees.