Spotsylvania Tree Stump, May 1864: This shattered, bullet-riddled stump was all that remained of an oak tree felled by rifle fire. (Photo courtesy of Hugh Talman, Smithsonian National Museum of ...

Tree stumps are a blank canvas for chain saw artist Glen Sievert, who spent Tuesday transforming a fallen oak tree in San Carlos into a humpback whale. The oak tree on Cedar Street was growing on ...

A massive tree stump now sits at Valencia and 18th streets. Around it, a flow of pedestrians and bicycles stream through the intersection, hardly noticing the felled former silk oak. But the stump is ...