lurking women, care to introduce yourselves?

Hello All.

I am in Ontario, Canada, and new to Arboriculture (although I have been working in "traditional" forestry and environmental management for years). I am NOT a climber, but I am responsible for managing crews that include climbers, so listening and learning from you all is invaluable to me.

I am a bug geek, tree geek, plant geek ... OK, so maybe I'm just a geek.

Looking forward to getting to know everyone, and learning lots!
 
Gorgeous avatar, Katz!

Ontario has many great tree folk. Welcome! Hoping that non-climber status is not permanent--even if it's not part of the job, climbing gives a mind-manifesting perspective on trees and plants and bugs.
 
Welcome, Katz. I love that avatar, too.

A close friend of mine does forestry work in Canada as well. He says it can't be beat. Beautiful country you have there. I'd like to run the full length of the Trans-Canada someday and see for myself.
 
Hello to you all! I have been lurking on tree buzz for a few years now, mainly over my husbands shoulder.. I finally decided to post. I have officially been doing tree work for about 10 years. Although I did take time off to have 2 beautiful babies. I mainly do line clearance but started off in the private industry.

I would love to go to a women's clinic or conference but New England is a good distance. Is there anything available in the North West?

I will be traveling to my first tree climbing comp. in
Sept.

Thanks for all you. Michelle
 
I'm excited to stumble upon this thread. I'm not an arborist, but work in marketing and sales assistance for a TCIA-accredited firm. We're led by a husband and wife team. The wife is our CFO but got her start doing PHC for Bartlett.

I've noticed over the last year how few women there are in this industry (obviously). But more than that, I've noticed the women who I have met are much lower profile than their contribution to the industry really is. For example, our company stands apart because of customer service, and it's the women's touch of our processes that really adds the professionalism and polish that no one else does here locally.

Can we have a WOTT interest group lunch at TCIA Expo next year?

Great to meet you all.

Lydia
 
I'm not a woman, but every trade show or similar event I attend, I feel there are more and more women attending as well.

For the last five years of my career I have worked with two different women, one of whom was my foreperson for a time. And having a female presence in the workplace is invaluable to me. My close friend Kate(ladybird) just quit a few months ago, leaving me with a bunch of dudes. I am quite depressed about it. She brought a lot to the table just by having a different brain pattern (or however you want to classify the fundamental difference between guys and gals), and also worked harder than any two of the remaining fellas put together.

Welcome to the buzz, glad to have ya
 
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OK, Here Goes,I'm Michelle and I've been reading post for a bit and thought I would introduce myself. I learned to climb a number of yrs ago when I lived and went to school on the East cost. Then moved to West cost and to a small island in the sound just out side Seattle. I have worked for myself for yrs but now also work for another company over-town (the main land)part-time. I never realized how many bad habits (unsafe) I have picked up working by myself until I started working with a safety conscious crew. I am safe compared to many on island but Wow.

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Which island are you on?
 
Hi All! My name is Anita, and I live in Portland, Oregon. I grew up climbing trees, and then last summer got a job with a local tree care company. I'm getting proficient at climbing with ropes and loving every minute of it. So excited to be starting a career as an arborist!
 
Hola Chicas,

I'm Elena. Well, where to begin? I live in beautiful Portland, Oregon. I'll be 30 next month and I have worked for Honl Tree Care just shy a year as ground crew, and started climbing in August. I'm the only girl on the crew of 8 now I think, and I'm totally cool with that. I'm a bro's bro kinda girl anyway. Peeing in the back of the chipper truck gets annoying sometimes though. Ha! I grew up playing in the woods and snow in Anchorage, Alaska, I'm the daughter of a drunken sailor, studied Sociology and Spanish in Portland while waiting tables, lived in the jungle in Oaxaca, Mexico (mostly in a tent, then in a super adobe dome I built) the last two years prior, so yeah, I'm a tough cookie with a wicked dirty sense of humor.

I'll be honest, we lost one of our hardest working employees recently, and we've all had to step it up a notch. I'm climbing more and more now, and this week really kicked my ass. I messed up my shoulder somehow. I go to the bouldering gym a lot too so It could have been anything, but I realize I need to work smarter and cough up the coin for better gear so that I may punish my body less. I love working hard and outside in whatever the weather may bring, but it won't last if I don't take better care of myself.

I plan on taking horticulture classes in the fall and becoming ISA certified soon. Everyone always asks when I'll start competing, but I've never been much of a competitive sport person. We'll see I suppose. I've got a ton to learn, and it sometimes feels daunting, but I have an amazing, supportive crew and wonderful kind boss, not to mention tons of fellow tree people in town to reach out to. I spent my Saturday planting with Friends of Trees, getting kids and neighbors out in the rain to meet and plant street trees. Just creating a little job security. ;) Or maybe it helps clear my conscience of all the removals we do. Anyways, I love trees.

All the boys use this site, and with my little injury it occurred to me that I need to work smarter, so here I am. Teach me oh wise arborists! I'm an enthusiastic student.
 
Bienvenidos! I'm 44 and a company owner, and have experienced all of the little messages about my body wearing out. Being hyper aware of every move is hard, but it's what saves you. Things like jumping down from a truck bed are now things I think about before doing. Kinda sad! Anyway, welcome to the buzz! Hope to see more posts of your work with trees!

Tom
 
Welcome Elena. There are lots of great threads on here to learn from and the fellow buzzers are great guys and gals. I have learned so much from them. I am a 51 year young rec climber.
 
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