Gardening columnist Don Kinzler recommends wrapping the trunks of young trees each fall to prevent winter injury and animal damage.

Young trees and thin-barked trees such as soft maple and crabapple are susceptible to temperature changes in winter and need tree wrap to help them out. By wrapping your trees, you can protect ...

Tree wrap can protect trees against pests, frost damage and sunscald, which happens when days are warm, but nights drop below the freezing point.

Start wrapping the tree at the base, overlapping one-third with each turn, which will enable the wrap to shed water and keep the trunk dry.

Tree wrap can protect trees against pests, frost damage and sunscald, which happens when days are warm, but nights drop below the freezing point.

Young trees and thin-barked trees such as soft maple and crabapple are susceptible to temperature changes in winter and need tree wrap to help them out. By wrapping your trees, you can protect ...

Young trees and thin-barked trees such as soft maple and crabapple are susceptible to temperature changes in winter and need tree wrap to help them out. By wrapping your trees, you can protect ...

Wrap the tree completely from top to bottom with burlap, securing the burlap to itself with pins or staples to keep it from falling off. Be careful not to pin or staple the burlap to the tree.

Denver Post file Protect young trees during the winter by wrapping them with tree wrap. Carol O'Meara / CSU Cooperative Extension Show Caption of Expand By Carol O'Meara | CSU Cooperative ...

Services such as tree wrapping and shaking are offered at no extra cost. Port Sanilac Christmas Tree Farm also has a teepee and log house in the back of the property.