Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Removing the dead and injured bark from around the wound with a sharp knife ...

We are in the midst of the pruning season. This is when I remind people not to treat pruning wounds with any type of wound dressing, tree paint or tar. Since we put antiseptic and band-aids on our ...

QUESTION: Some of my oak trees have wounds that ooze sap at different times of the year. One company said this is wetwood; another called it a slime. It has been suggested to add some pipes to the ...

Don't stress if you have a tree that's not looking its best in the bark department. You can save a tree with damaged bark by first assessing the type of damage. Once you know the severity, you have a ...

I received an urgent call last week. A tractor had knocked a big chunk of bark off of an oak tree and the owner wanted to know what to do about the wound.This kind of incident is all too common, ...

Last week’s severe weather flooded fields and basements, and damaged trees and structures across Minnesota. Many trees snapped in the wind and some were completely uprooted due to the saturated soils.

DURHAM— This spring, as many throughout the region are pruning their trees after winter storms, few will realize that a now deceased local man was one of the driving forces behind the techniques that ...