Lessons From the Tree Tops
Posted in Programs and Events on November 3 2010, by Plant Talk
There are many ways to get to the top: you can work long hours, ignore your family, sacrifice, lose sleep, and take classes. But few classes can guarantee as swift a path to the top as the Garden’s Recreational Tree Climbing Workshop. In this amazing class, along with the popular elective Chainsaws – Safety and Maintenance, students learn valuable skills all while getting the best view of the Garden possible.
The Tree Climbing Workshop returns to the Garden this Saturday and Sunday. The Chainsaw class will be offered Saturday, November 13. The classes will be taught by instructor David Fedczuk.
In the meantime, check out this interview with tree climbing expert and longtime instructor of the Garden’s tree climbing courses, A. Wayne Cahilly, manager of The New York Botanical Garden’s Lionel Goldfrank III Institutional Mapping Department. To see a tree climbing student in action, check out this video from Travel + Leisure where portions of this interview were originally published.
Raccoons, squirrels and bee's nests, oh my! Read the full interview below.