BELVIDERE, N.J. — In 1850, Charles Dickens published “A Christmas Tree.” The short story opens with a description of the tree “lighted by a multitude of tapers” and decorated with ornamental guns, ...

Whether you’re walking along a city sidewalk or hiking deep in the forest, you might occasionally notice paint marks on tree trunks (or even a metal band once in a while). Those paint marks are codes ...

Several maple trees with white trunks - By Eve Livesey/Getty Images You may be lucky enough to live in or visit an area that has a variety of trees. What's perhaps even more surprising are the ...

CANASTOTA, N.Y. -- Dewey Romagnoli first painted red, white and blue Christmas trees in 2017 for his farm's "Trees for Troops" program. Now, a variety of jewel-toned trees appear at Romagnoli's ...

I was recently asked, "Why did people paint trees?" Maybe you remember painted trees, or have seen photos. People would "paint" tree trunks white, generally from the ground up to as far as a child ...