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Book Review:  The Wild Trees
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   I just finished reading "The Wild Trees" by Richard Preston, author of
   the bestselling "The Hot Zone". It is a book about discovering and
   climbing the tallest and oldest trees in the world, the Redwoods in
   Northern California. It is a "spellbinding story of Steve Sillett,
   Marie Antoine, (Michael Taylor, and the tiny group of daring botanists
   and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California,
   dangerous, hauntingly beautiful and unexplored." [home_humboldt.jpg]

   Have you ever climbed a tall tree? I grew up with a big cherry tree in
   my back yard and I climbed that tree when I was six. Later, I free
   climbed deciduous trees as high as I could go and felt the wind move
   the tree and saw views that few in a two story neighborhood would ever
   see. This book feeds into that wonder, only with climbers that learned
   how to climb giant trees upwards of 360 feet tall. Preston writes so
   you care about the climbers, demonstrates how dangerous climbing can
   be, and fills you with wonder about these big trees and the
   biodiversity that exists in the canopy. I couldn't put the book down.

   Jim Spickler, who climbed with Steve Sillett and Marie Antoine,
   describes what it's like to climb the world's tallest tree: [EMBED]

   This second movie shows how to climb to the top of "Methuselah", the
   well-known coast redwood tree in San Mateo County, CA. (Part 1 and 2)
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