Those metal bands, also known as baffles, strapped around trees are not holding the tree together, but they do have a purpose ...

A squirrel peeks out of a hole in a tree. Squirrels can damage trees through extensive stripping of the bark. Squirrels are generally good neighbors that occasionally become a nuisance by stripping ...

If you’ve driven or walked down a street and spotted tree trunks wrapped with sheet metal, you may have been stumped. These reflective, metal cuffs can be seen everywhere from Charlotte to Los Angeles ...

If you have ever seen aluminum bands, hardware cloth or some other type of metal wrapping the trunk of a tree, you might have wondered about its purpose. It’s not to help the trunk grow straight, nor ...