The morning sunlight peers through trees, casting dramatic shadows and highlighting some of the foliage Friday at South Mountain Big Rock Park in Salisbury Township. The morning sunlight peers through ...
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Exploding trees? A closer look at frost cracking

Frost cracks appear as vertical splits in the trunk of a tree and are the result of plant tissue expansion and contraction.
When firefighters from the Ridgeville Township Volunteer Firefighter Department arrived on the scene to extinguish a burning tree Tuesday morning, they were met with a particularly challenging job.