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PNW-ISA News Releases
ISA Offers Press Releases on a Variety of Tree Care Topics
The International Society of Arboriculture maintains a website with a wide range of tree care information in the form of press releases. Click HERE for the "Trees Are Good" website.
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Announcing the 2007 Municipal Foresters Institute
Sun Feb 18, 2007 - Fri Feb 23, 2007
Lake Arrowhead, CA
Municipal & Community Foresters and Arborists: Be a part of an elite training event. Learn leadership and management tools of administration, coalition building, planning, policy, public relations, and risk management...all in a comprehensive week-long intensive professional educational growth opportunity.
See SMA website for more details and registration information:
For more information: Contact: Jerri LaHaie, SMA Executive Director, Phone: (706) 769-7412, Email: urbanforestry@prodigy.net
Posted 11/1/2006
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Pacific Northwest ISA
Presents
SPARTREE: The Film
Silverton, OR - The Pacific Northwest ISA is pleased to announce the availability of SPARTREE, a film documenting the skill, incredible stamina, and good head for heights required of “highriggers” or tree climber/loggers from days past.
The Pacific Northwest is a rugged landscape adorned with huge trees. Prior to the advent of mobile spars, loggers hung steel wires on tall individual trees, called spartrees, to extract logs from the forest to a central loading area. Using nothing more than a simple flip line, waist belt, and spurs, highriggers climbed the spartree, clearing lower branches and cutting off the tree top for rigging equipment.
Rigging spartrees is almost a lost art now. In 1977, Canadian film maker Phillip Borsos made the documentary film SPARTREE as a testament to the physical effort involved. The film garnered numerous awards and achieved “cult” status among foresters and people who worked in the woods.
Today, tree climbing uses skills and techniques adopted from mountaineering and caving expertise. The approach to fixing a line and climbing a tree is quite different from years past. Spurs, like those seen in the film, create wounds in a tree and are only used on trees being taken down. Nonetheless, arborists still use a flip line and the skill of tree climbing in this manner is not entirely lost.
SPARTREE epitomizes an important aspect of the Pacific Northwest region and portrays tree climbing on a grand scale in an era of limited equipment.
PRICE REDUCTION - Videos are now just $10 US/CDN plus shipping. To get your VHS copy, contact the PNW Chapter office at 503-874-8263 or info@pnwisa.org. SPARTREE is sold for private home use only and may not be used for public performance in any manner. Enjoy the show!
Disclaimer: Tree climbing is dangerous and can lead to serious injury or fatality. Tree climbing requires considerable skill and knowledge of the correct equipment to be used. The Pacific Northwest ISA does not endorse the equipment depicted in the video. The film is distributed as an example of how practices were in the past, not how they are today. People wishing to learn how to climb trees should contact the International Society of Arboriculture for information about training courses available.
Posted 10/15/06
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