There are plenty of good reasons to mulch your garden and flower beds, including weed suppression and soil moisture retention. Wood bark has long been used as a mulch material to accomplish those ...

Bark’s attractive appearance soon made it a gardening favorite for suppressing weeds and conserving moisture in the soil. The irony, Chalker-Scott said, was that bark actually does these things poorly ...

When I'm called to look at one of these trees, what I want to see is new wood, or "wound wood," growing beneath, or against, the dead bark. Wound wood is what trees grow in areas of damage to try ...

ROLLING — A 95-year-old sawmill business in northeastern Wisconsin can now generate enough power from burning bark and wood chips that it has started selling excess electricity back to the grid.