Arborists armed with chainsaws and climbing gear are always busy cleaning up from the last storm or trying to prevent the next blackout. Recreational climbers can use the same skills and equipment.

Tree climbing is a thing. And Dave Katz is one of the world’s best at it. A founding member of the Cornell Tree Climbing Institute, he's climbed trees across the world and taught the technical skills ...

When you think of science and math, you probably don’t picture dangling from a rope 30 feet in the air. But at Davey Tree’s new SEED Campus, short for Science, Employee Education and Development, the ...

Consider this scenario: Dispatch receives a report from the FAA indicating that a small plane has crashed in your response area during stormy weather. The downed plane is somewhere south of the local ...

I had to climb 20 feet before I reached the lowest branches of the 100-year-old white oak. Suspended by a climbing rope hooked onto my arborist harness, I swung my feet onto a branch the width of a ...

BENTONVILLE -- Joey Cameron was 1 second too late. Cameron, who works for Integrity Tree Care of Fort Worth, had 5 minutes to rescue a dummy from a tree Saturday in the Natural State Tree Climbing ...

Tim Kovar climbed his first tree in his Nebraska backyard at the age of four. Now a master climbing instructor, he has scaled more than 5,000 trees worldwide, at sites ranging from South America to ...

Big and beautiful, “Her Majesty” spreads her arms wide. Hers is a memorable embrace. At 110 feet tall, the red oak at Volunteer Park is emerald with moss and pokes high into the sky. Her crown is gold ...