The Rio Rancho Observer reports the city is paying wood sculptor Mark Chavez $5,000 to turn a dead tree trunk at Haynes Park in Rio Rancho into a patriotic masterpiece.

Someone suggested she have the remains made into a carving, and so she hired Besco, a Louisburg chainsaw carver, to turn the dead tree trunk into the symbol of the school the Shirks loved.

Davenport resident Mari Mahler holds a hobbit house carving her husband made. She asked local carver Thom Gleich to create a carving in the trunk of her fallen maple tree to honor his carving.

MCKINNEY, Texas — Instead of removing a dead tree from one of its parks, the city of McKinney is carving its history into the trunk.

The carving also grew out of the large tree trunk in his yard. Electric crews cut the tree back to the trunk a few years ago. Rotting, the limbs were hanging dangerously over power lines.

The carving, which depicted a human hand coming out of a tree trunk and reaching towards the sky, deeply moved him and inspired him to create his own tree art.

Wood carving tools were used to create stunning statues in Swindon that showed-off how beginners can get involved in the craft hobby.

A tree set for removal outside an East Falls Church home has instead been turned into a castle. The home, at the intersection of N. Underwood Street and 26th Street N. is near Bishop O'Connell ...

When Brandywine Elementary School was built in 1971, six pin oak trees were planted along the fence line in the playground area.

Master carver Huaman Mallqui, 40, is carving a 10-foot-tall sculpture called 'Nest of Dreams' from the trunk of a damaged maple tree on property owned by the Sisters of Saint Joseph Neighborhood ...

To carve an aspen tree — to take a blade to the trunk for the sake of your initials, for example — is to do harm. Harm to a being with a life expectancy much like our own: 100 years, if we ...