One of the costliest losses in the landscape is when an animal destroys or disfigures a new tree. A new tree can easily cost $100 these days for even a small one, and they’re particularly vulnerable ...

With trees, as with elephants and in swimming, trunks are important. They’re part of trees’ beauty, strength, majesty, and mystique. We have things to discuss. Like people, trunks come in all shapes ...

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The moment the temperatures drop and the first frost settles, rodents across your yard seem to hold an annual strategy meeting about which of your tree trunks they’re going to gnaw on next. It’s ...

Whatever allure trees might hold, they also have scads of data stored within their trunks. Daniel Griffin, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota, recently published “This ...

A reader asked the following questions about trees. No. 1: When hiking, I often see what appear to be several trees growing from a central trunk. What causes this? No. 2: At a local park an oak tree ...

Q: Mushrooms suddenly appeared on my tree’s trunk. How can I treat them to protect the tree? A: Unfortunately, you can’t treat mushrooms growing out of wood, and the fungal growth that produced them ...

Most people are familiar with the notion that "tree rings" — the concentric bands visible on a cross-section of a tree's trunk — serve as an indicator of a tree's age. Researchers at the University of ...

If you’ve driven or walked down a street and spotted tree trunks wrapped with sheet metal, you may have been stumped. These reflective metal cuffs can be seen everywhere from Charlotte to Los Angeles ...

Perhaps you’ve wandered through a forest or strolled into a neighborhood park and found tree trunks — and wondered if counting the rings on a trunk is truly a way to know the tree's age. "Most of us ...