Hi everyone,
Sterling Rope has an awesome new podcast called 'Freedom to Focus' hosted by (famous rock climber) Kevin Jorgeson. The second and most recent episode talks about the tree climbing accident and recovery of Rachel Brudzinski; some of you may remember hearing about her accident at the...
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Figured since this forum is here I should go ahead and use it to shamelessly promote myself ;) Since the beginning of the new year things have been a bit slow, and I am keen to work with new people and diversify my list of clients for the coming year.
My name is Will, and I'm a...
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As many of you probably remember, back in 2014 there was a large uproar in Portland, Oregon about a massive Juglans hinsii X regia that was slated to be cut down to make way for condos. After an Earth Day protest where a large group of arborists climbed the tree, the developer bowed to...
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I've got a bit of an odd one on my plate here and am wondering if I could throw it to the buzz for help. I'm looking for a few partially decayed coast redwood nurse logs which I could acquire for a project in the bay area. Needs to be legit, so verifiably sourced from somebody's...
Hey all, thought you might like to hear a follow up to the story of the Paradox walnut in Portland that resulted in a bunch of arborists having a 'climb-in' on earth day 2014.
Due to this and other community pressure, the developer altered the plan, removing 2 units from the development to...
Hey guys,
Thought you might appreciate this little teaser of a project I'm working on at the moment:
Brian is the dude in the green shirt; I'm the other one.
The whole thing will be finished sometime in 2015, and I'll definitely post it up here when I can.
Cheers
Hey all,
Thought you might find the clip below pretty interesting. This is an ad shoot that myself and some other notable Portland arbs worked on over the summer. Funny how much work went into that less than 10 seconds of tree climbing footage. I do like the double fishermans bit though.
Hi all,
I've just recently finished all my necessary steps to become a legitimate corporate entity in the state of Oregon, and so I've launched a website: www.emergenttreeworks.com
Generally speaking, I'm not trying to go the retail arboriculture route. I'll have some clients but mostly I...
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A few weeks back I traveled up to BC to join in the effort to climb and measure Big Lonely Doug, the second largest known douglas fir in Canada. This tree gets its name due to the fact that it sits alone in the middle of a clearcut as of late 2012.
We traveled out to the site near...
This is a vid I made from a couple jobs last month. They were a couple of my favorite jobs from shortly after my return to the PNW after a long absence, and also represent pretty typical jobs for the region: confined takedown of a second growth doug fir, and pruning a senescent bigleaf maple...
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This August, in the days before the ITCC, Ascending the Giants and the PNW ISA are hosting a Forest Canopy Ecology Tour in a remarkable patch of old growth Douglas Fir minutes from downtown Portland.
You can read a bunch about the program at http://pnwtreeclimb2012.eventbrite.com/ ...
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Last thursday, Oregon Public Broadcasting (our local PBS) affiliate showed a segment documenting the making of the Treeverse film. It was on the season premiere of the excellent show Oregon Field Guide. The segment is really cool in that it shows the work that went in to getting some...
Hi all,
I have a question for those on the buzz that are planning (or even considering) coming to the 2012 ISA conference in Portland, OR.
We're planning an 'Old Growth Ecology Tour', which will be a half day tour of an amazing old-growth douglas fir forest at the Audubon Society property in...
A month after completing the Treeverse, on Saturday I finally saw some footage of the climb. It was worth the wait.
http://vimeo.com/22858880
Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the post-production party on Saturday, it was extremely memorable in spite of the huge amounts of booze we...
We received word in mid-March that the National Champion Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum) in Jewell, Oregon had finally succumbed to gravity. Because we heard about this just before the Treeverse, it's taken until now to visit the fallen giant and update our website with recent photos...