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 ...

Natalie Beneviat Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025 5:00 a.m. | Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025 5:00 a.m. Saying that a recent tree-climbing school was hands-on is a bit of an understatement. As an arboreal activity that ...

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 ...

Climbers Brian French and Will Koomjian ascend the Brummit fir in Coos County Oregon. It is the National Champion Douglas fir and stands 335 feet tall. Freesolo Photography / Sean O'Connor “Watch out!

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 ...

When I was a child I climbed trees. From my perch I looked out on the woods. I wasn’t above the tree cover, but rather in it, the leaves rustling around me like the layers of a petticoat. This must be ...