Tree girdling almost always spells doom for a tree if not caught early and corrected. This common, yet easily overlooked problem happens when something wraps so tightly around a tree (like a girdle), ...

An arborist has captured attention online by sharing video of the before and after of tree girdling. In a TikTok, Bobby Solar (@bobby.solar) showed a tree surrounded by a "massive" mountain (sometimes ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its ...

Authorities are looking for the vandals who deliberately stripped bark from several trees in Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan in an apparent attempt to kill them. The group Minnesota Off-Road ...

Pulling into my drive, I noticed the honeycrisp apple tree we love didn’t look quite right. From a small distance away, wilt was evident around its branches and a sinking feeling settled in my stomach ...