Hundreds of years ago, Trail Marker Trees were prevalent throughout the North Shore." However, in Winnetka, the last ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Dennis Downes of Antioch talks about his bronze sculpture called “Trail Marker Tree” in his home in 2014. Sun-Times file Share When Dennis Downes was 12 ...

It, like numerous others across the country known as Indian marker trees or trail trees, was bent in its youth by American Indians to indicate such things as a trail or a low-water creek crossing.

While Missoula Parks and Recreation replaced older signs on the North Hills in 2024, this year's effort renewed each of the ...

Is this a native American "trail tree" or "trail marker tree"? — Eric Wells Probably not, Eric. In large part because the tree you mention does not appear to be big enough and old enough ...

As long ago as 1939, historian Al Barnes mentioned Indian trail marker trees in Traverse City. One of them is near the old courthouse on the corner of Boardman Avenue and Washington Street.

Downes’ signature project was seeking, researching and sculpting a series of Trail Marker Trees, recreations of actual trees used by native North Americans as a navigational system ...

Steve Houser is a North Texas arborist and has documented about 100 likely trail marker trees, made by bending a sapling with a strap tied down with stones. "I feel an obligation to do it for ...

Botanist Paul O'Hara is studying ancient trees that were once used to mark the trails of First Nations peoples in Southern Ontario. If you think you know the location of one of these trail marker ...