The City of Sedalia has successfully completed a Tree Resource Improvement and Maintenance (TRIM) Grant awarded by the Missouri Department of Conservation.
If you think you've had a difficult day, you should see a tree that a Missouri man found in the woods that was viciously shredded by someone or something.
This is potentially very bad news for trees in Missouri. Suddenly, there are hundreds of reports in Missouri of an invasive pest that is responsible for the deaths of millions of trees every single year.
I am deathly afraid of spiders which means I'm also not a big fan of webs. Soon, you'll start to see gobs of webs begin to appear in Missouri trees and many fear what they contain.
One of the benefits of living in Missouri is the ability to not have to walk far before you see trees. Sometimes you'll see cryptic markings on the trunk of a tree that means something. If you happen upon a tree that has black paint, that's a sure sign that someone's in trouble.
As I was walking through our Missouri neighborhood the other day enjoying the mild weather, I noticed several things about the trees. Number one is many are already budding. Number two is there are big balls of leaves everywhere. In case you didn't know, those aren't for birds.
The Missouri Department of Transportation would like to rid the state of Callery pear trees. If you cut one down, they'll give you a new native tree for free.
There are certain warning signs of Spring that you might have trouble. One is to see a tree in Missouri that is oozing sap. That could be a sign that a vicious invasive insect is present and causing issues for the ecosystem that could have bad consequences for much more than just the trees in your neighborhood.
If you want get away from it all, you can go camping. If you want to get away from it all, but do it in a glamourous way, you can go glamping. But, there's now a Missouri place that will let you go 'hamping' and it's the best way to defy gravity in the trees.