Although Mel Hamilton is completely at ease when she works high in the branches of a tree, she said her mother was anxious while watching her compete in the Illinois Arborist Association Annual Tree ...

Professional arborists pressed pause on their work days Friday to determine the top tree climber of them all.  Forty-seven tree caretakers from across the state and beyond convened at Payson’s ...

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 / ...

Arborists from across the region gathered for a competitive tree climbing competition at Crestmoor Park on Saturday. “Rock climbing is more of a finesse,” admitted Teddy Hildebrand, President of Rocky ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Illinois Arborist Association is hosting the 2026 Illinois Tree Climbing Championship and Arbor Fair, taking place June 6 ...

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 ...