KRQE Blogs

Sculptor creating wood carving out of dead tree trunk in Rio Rancho

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – There’s wood carving, and then there’s serious wood-carving. The Rio Rancho Observer reports the city is paying wood sculptor Mark Chavez $5,000 to turn a dead tree trunk at ...
The Spokesman-Review

Tree carving creates art that mixes old, new

When last winter’s wind storms whipped the tall ponderosa pines in Bert and Betty Wolfrum’s backyard, they thought the trees might blow down. The tops of the three trees were already split and the ...
Palo Alto Weekly

Carving life from a dead tree

Last fall, Palo Alto resident Michele Gibson was biking down Arastradero Road when she passed by S.P. McClenahan tree service’s offices. She stopped and went in to inquire about a black acacia tree in ...
Quad-City Times

Gunter's cabin: Davenport resident commissions wood carving to honor late husband, fallen tree

Before carving in, Gleich knew from Mahler that there was a cable somewhere in the tree. Cabling trees keeps their branches from splaying out too much, lowering the risk of breakage. However, there ...
OnMilwaukee

Woodcarver will cut city holiday tree into chainsaw art to fund street trees

When Milwaukee residents Mike Connell and Katie Major donated their 30-foot evergreen tree to the City of Milwaukee for its Christmas tree last fall, they likely didn't imagine the route the tree ...