When preparing to remove a diseased or dead tree, you may need to climb into the tree to remove some limbs before cutting the trunk. You can use a pair of tree-climbing spikes to help you move up the ...

Recreational tree climbing is booming in the South – and no wonder. Its origins are generally recognized to have begun in 1983 when Peter Jenkins, a rock climber who became a tree surgeon, established ...

Tree climbing is typically regarded as a happy childhood activity. However, one company is helping people of all ages discover, or rediscover, one of life’s simple pleasures. Expert tree climber Tim ...

Which tree climbing spike is best? Whether you climb trees for a living or do backyard maintenance, tree climbing spikes will keep you safe, steady and firm-footed in all your arborist pursuits. Good ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) - Bart Howard shimmies up a white oak tree moving carefully and deliberately. The Muscatine Journal (https://bit.ly/1SSbx14 ) reports that Howard, 26, owner of Howard Forest & ...

Sydney Hudzinski climbs in the 2023 Minnesota Society of Arboriculture's Tree Climbing Championship. She won in 2024 and is returning to compete in 2025. NINA MOINI: There's a kid in your life who ...

Maybe you climbed trees as a kid in your backyard. But have you ever wondered what it would be like to climb a 300-foot-tall Douglas fir? At Silver Falls State Park, you now have the opportunity to ...

Do trees grow from seeds that goats eat and later expel? That is a question that has long bedeviled ecologists. Let's say it's a small seed. The goat will swallow it, poop it out and a tree could ...

Although Mel Hamilton is completely at ease when she works high in the branches of a tree, she said her mother was anxious while watching her compete in the Illinois Arborist Association Annual Tree ...