Boston area recreational tree climbers
We're called BARC, let's climb some trees!
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- Let us know about your tree climbing experience:
- Used to climb trees when I was a kid, I'm a beginning technical tree climber
- Anything else you'd like to say about tree climbing?
- My one Rhode Island tree climber class with Andrew "moss" Joslin was a delight. He has my vote for as a model teacher and example of patience, care and attention to doing life right for all beings....I hope for another class next fall.
My quest is climbing as meditation - soaking in trees and ecoclimes
My personal goals:
to learn and provide tree preservation as a give-back
to encourage more arboretum/park pruning for tree health beyond just
taking off dead branches
to be a catalyst for more chips/mulch around tree bases-- taking
away all leaves and branches does leave replacement nutrients
I had the pleasure of visiting a 900 year old oak tree in the middle of Stockholm. You should see how German tree pruning specialists had the large branches cut back with only 2-4 foot branch shoots from the ends---a method to allow an older tree to maintain health. My companion, a Boston psychic who can hear trees "speak", listened for 20 minutes at the base of the trunk and reported that the oak sounded like an old man, grumbling about people standing on his (enormous) roots--which he did not like. I think about this now when I see tree roots exposed. I think about all the trees that are never pruned to aid in their health.
I helped to found Starr Lane Community Park in JP (sorry no climbing trees). Enjoy the park as you eat your JP Lick's ice cream...
The park demonstrates how improved the soil is with successive applications of 4-6' of mulch or free bark chips. People walk the chips/mulch into dust and provide nutients to the soil, prevent soil
compaction, and add to moisture capability. I am working on getting the same chips around trees and on people paths in another local park with extreme erosion and compaction around trees.
In cases of need I have dug in perforated gallon milk jugs with the open tops at ground level around the drip line to aid in getting water to the tree.
The large leaf linden I planted as a stick 20 years ago is now 6 stories tall. Say hello when you walk down Starr Lane.
- How would you like to be involved with Boston area tree climbers?
- I'd like to attend tree climbing events, I'd like to hang out in trees with people from my community, I'd like to help run climbing events
- Do you have trees you'd like to climb on your property?
- No
- Are there trees in nearby public property or parks that you'd like to climb?
- Yes
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I was up there with my two children and we were wondering what those tweo magnificent trees were.
Sycamore maybe?? Joe Fraser