THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber by ...

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 ...

TRAVERSE CITY — A familiar sight along the Boardman River is getting a second life this month, thanks to the work of a local artist. The cottonwood tree at the river’s mouth died earlier this year and ...

If you happen to be driving along La. 25 between Covington and Folsom, you might do a double take at the sight of a 15-foot wooden alligator tipped on its tail alongside the road, or a gigantic carved ...

ELKHART LAKE - When visitors go to state and national parks across the United States, they may have the chance to see wildlife, like bears, bison and moose. But what visitors to America’s “national ...

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 ...

Dustin Wolf is working hard to preserve a piece of Niwot’s history — and his father’s legacy. Wolf is currently restoring three tree sculptures that were carved by his dad, Eddie Running Wolf. The ...

Wooden carvings of historic figures, which have become a common sight around Buffalo, were supposed to raise funds to replant trees after the October 2006 storm. Yet, after 1 1/2 years, Carvings for a ...

Wednesday’s high winds from the remnants of Hurricane Zeta felled two cedar trees in the Tinglewood section of Montevallo’s Orr Park - home to the unique carvings of artist Tim Tingle. But don’t worry ...