Each arborist had a story about what got them into the trade. Some just always had a love of tree climbing. Locke got a taste for it on a monthlong job with the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... EATON — Luke Glines is in his woody gym, scurrying through the tangled limbs of a silver poplar. “I’m always varying it up to try new angles, you know,” he ...

From left, Eric Massie, Ryan Rastok, Erin Massie and Chris Johnson suspend themselves in a Scotch pine tree in northwest Lawrence on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. The four arborists enjoy spending some of ...

KENT, Ohio — 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 ...

Admit it: The job title of “arborist” doesn’t exactly sound hair-raising. But in fact, the job can take tree scientists to literal heights as they suss out the health of individual trees. And this ...

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM Lyon Arboretum arborist Jamilee Kempton practices her climbing on an 80-foot-tall Chinese banyan tree. CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Arborists from across the region gathered ...