Keep those fingers clean: Pick up a tortillon or a blending stump to blend, soften, and smudge your creative marks. Made of paper that is compacted and shaped into a pencil-like design, these handheld ...

When is a tree stump not a stump? When a majestic old poplar becomes a windswept butte upon which children act out great king-of-the-hill battles, or when lesser stumps might be tables for truce talks ...

Whether Mother Nature takes out a tree or you have one removed for poor performance, as a safety precaution, or to improve the view, part of it remains, the stump. Big or small, you have some ...

For Northwest settlers, stumps were both a challenge and a kind of regional status symbol. Settlers came to the Northwest and began lopping down the forests, then they had to deal with old-growth ...

When trees have to be cut down, for whatever reason, stumps have to be managed. Stumps can be left in place to be bases for sculptures or plants in containers, but the most practical removal approach, ...

Enormous stumps in the Pacific Northwest tell the tale of vanished old-growth forests and a logging industry once enriched by giant trees. Member station KUOW's Harriet Baskas visits some old stumps ...