Beaver Backers paint trees to protect furry friends FARGO-Michelle Peterson dips her paintbrush into a mixture of eco-friendly paint and sand and slathers it on a tree in Trefoil Park in north Fargo.

The sun shone warmly on the Seeds Blacksburg Nature Center, where community members gathered to paint tree branches blue. Birds chirped, people chatted, and laughter grew louder as wind spattered ...

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 ...

Q: My dad helped me plant a couple of young apple trees in my backyard last weekend and so far, so good. After we finished I said the only thing I had left to do was paint the trunks white. He looked ...