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 ...

The Bay of Plenty arborist has won her second consecutive International Tree Climbing Championships world title. This time, ...

The top tree climber in Ohio is an arborist for a Hilliard company. Justin McVey of Ahlum & Arbor Tree Preservation won the 2010 Ohio Chapter International Society of Arboriculture Tree Climbing ...

Don’t be alarmed if you saw large bands of mysterious tree climbers clustering in Esther Short Park on Monday. Arborists from the International Society of Arboriculture are in town for their annual ...

— Typically, professionals wearing smart suits gather for their annual conferences in hotel ballrooms, where they attend seminars and mingle over lunch. Professional tree trimmers wearing T-shirts and ...

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 ...

While athletes are vying for gold in London, Malvern’s Peter Fixler is also competing on the international stage. The prize – a chainsaw. That’s one of the prizes in the International Tree Climbing ...

TORRINGTON -- The finer details of tree work usually get lost in chainsaw and hedge-trimmer translation. But on Saturday, all of that changed. The annual Connecticut Tree Climbing Competition pitted ...

Rachel Brudzinski of New York City gets paid to climbs trees. She works at The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, which spans about 250 acres of Bronx Park, but she came to Burlington off-hours ...

It's a big weekend for tree enthusiasts with a national conference and national tree climbing competition coming to Hawke's Bay. About 350 arborists, consultants, tree researcher and experts, tree ...

John Ruddock, an engineer with the Billings Fire Department, remembers rescuing a bleeding, unconscious man from a tree several years ago. "We put our aerial ladder out in the street for this ...