Dead trees also provide shelter for birds, such as six types of woodpeckers, owls, chickadees, bluebirds, wrens, nuthatches ...

If you're a homeowner in the Twin Cities, there's a chance that you have an ugly stump in front of your house. Thanks to the emerald ash borer infestation, St. Paul and Minneapolis have had to cut ...

My grandmother used to collect the fallen branches and dead limbs of trees from her yard every other day or so. She put them in a collection bin. If we helped, we sometimes earned a little bit of ...

Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) saw trees as examples of living prayers. “Silence my soul these trees are prayers. I asked the Tree: Tell me about God -- then it blossomed,” wrote the ...

As Kara James turns the group of dead trees in a public park near Foster Avenue Beach into art, pretty much everyone who walks by has something to say, she says. “It’s just a community. It’s totally ...