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Arts & Entertainment. This is what happens to trees when they're struck by lightning If lightning strikes deep into the trunk, the entire tree may blow apart, or all the bark will blow off.

I t's common to see leaves change color before falling away as autumn turns to winter in temperate regions, but if you find barren trees with branches chopped all the way to the trunk, this is ...

A tree that will grow to be more than 40 feet tall should have a single trunk well up into its canopy, but the trunk does not have to be arrow-straight.

In younger trees, codominant stems can be resolved by structural pruning to develop a single trunk. Developing a single trunk with one dominant leader starts by identifying the stem that will make ...

If one branch breaks, the others are more likely to fail. Cavities, large decay pockets, and other evidence of decay: If you find cavities or decay where branches meet or at the base of the trunk ...

Spencer Platt / Staff / Getty Images. All trees lose some branches during their lifetime and the wounds from these branch stubs usually heal. But when they heal too slowly or not at all, the tree ...

Where trees have a trunk diameter greater than 12 inches (at this height), it is likely that with selective pruning of the most damaged parts of the tree, full recovery can be expected.

Remember, if any part of the tree trunk is on both properties, the tree is owned 50/50 by both parties. Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen extensive tree damage to homes and businesses in our area.