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• The TREE SHADE SYSTEM

  

  A new tree climbing assessment chart

  Seven classes of difficulty The TREE SHADE SYSTEM is a new tree climbing assessment chart with seven classes of difficulty. Each one is divided into three subclasses. Altogether, there are twenty-one subclasses, from Ia (very easy) to VIIc (extremely difficult). Five indicators : The SHADE CODE The TREE SHADE SYSTEM is based on five indicators : Structure (tree shape), Height, Access (first footholds and handholds), special Difficulty and Extension (main interval between two (...)

• Professor Stephen C. Sillett - Humboldt State University

  

  Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology

  Professor Stephen C. Sillett, Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology at Humboldt State University, is recognized as the foremost expert on redwood trees. Sillett and his students changed the way scientists looked at redwood forests when they began climbing the trees and discovered crowns supporting a rich community of life. Sillett’s pioneering research and findings have been chronicled in scientific journals such as Nature, American Journal of Botany, Ecological Monographs, (...)

• Ascending the Giants - Champion trees conservation

  

  Tree climbing expeditions all around the world.

  The TEAM: Brian French Will Koomjian Jason Brown Chris French Sean O’Connor John Waller Bill Price Ascending the Giants is a progressive series of expeditions dedicated to climbing and documenting all aspects of champion trees. Ascending the Giants’ goal is to raise awareness of the importance of trees and the sensitive ecosystems that exist in and around them. Making updated accurate measurements and (...)

• THE WILD TREES - Richard Preston

  

  A Story of Passion and Daring (Book)

  In THE WILD TREES, Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett and Marie Antoine, who found a lost world above California, dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored. The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled hanging gardens of ferns, reefs of lichens, small animals, and all sorts of plants, including thickets of huckleberry bushes and small trees actually growing on the branches of giant redwoods. There are massive redwood limb systems fused into flying (...)