True masters of stealth, cougars are so well-camouflaged and silent that you could be just a few feet away and never know one was there. Resting 30 feet up in a tree, however, you might assume you’re ...

Vertical Voyages takes students upward to sleep in the trees at John Burroughs School. This story first appeared in the Outdoors newsletter. Click here to learn more and sign up. Sometimes, Jon ...

Source: mariya_m / Pixabay The most profound reading experience I've had was the book Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say that three times fast). It was taught in a Brown University psychology intro ...

On Halloween 2010, West Jefferson resident Duane Hook, 49, had a job to do. He received a call about a cat stuck in a tree, and for the first time, he would use his amateur climbing skills to help. He ...

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 ...

In the world of tree climbing, snakes adopt a surprisingly cautious approach. The study published in Biology Letters reveals that these limbless reptiles exert up to three times the force necessary to ...