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The one overriding quality of the Older Ents was Patience and Caution.
Just in line behind that was consideration, reflection, and thought about the consequences of any action.
Given these two things, it is highly unlikely that Treebeard would even want the One Ring to come within Fangorn Forest.
As Fangorn (Treebeard) would realize that even if he had rejected the One Ring, there might be a younger, hastier Ent, or, even worse, a Huorn who might be willing to lay claim to the One Ring.
The Ents were also Children of Eru, so they too would be susceptible to the One Ring's corrupting influence.
But the Ents were also among the oldest enemies of The Enemy (Be that Morgoth or Sauron). And they were rather like Faramir in not wishing to resort to the devices of The Enemy. The Ents simply had too much respect for Life, in whatever form, even if they were "... not altogether on anyone's side..."
Recall that it was Fangorn who "cooled the heads" of the Ent and Huorn attack on Isenguard during their rage, and they got positively methodical about what to do.
So.... I imagine that Fangorn (Treebeard) would likely have put the One Ring somewhere deeply guarded (likely a hole in a rock, with a giant slab of rock laid over it, with a ring of impenetrable Thorn-Tree Ents surrounding it), while they searched for Gandalf to consult him over what to do with the One Ring.
And then we would be right back to where we began.
However. . .
Should the unthinkable have occurred, and an Ent taken up the One Ring, that would be a very dangerous situation indeed.
The Ents would set the ring to re-foresting the Planet, and likely the Trees would become very hostile to any life that did not appropriately appease them.
Life for Humanity, Elf, Dwarf, Hobbit, or even Orc would become nearly impossible (at least without the Entwives, as they would be needed for any Agricultural areas to survive).
The World would end as a giant, wild, untamed Forest and Jungle. And Fangorn, or whichever Ent took up the ring would become as the World Tree in Norse Myth.
MB
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