By TCIA Staff

When a woman calling herself GoldenLarch logged into the TreeBuzz arborist forum in late 2020, she wasn’t looking for applause – she was looking for honesty. At 28, after leaving a customer-service career and earning a horticulture certificate, she’d fallen hard for trees and the art of climbing them. “The allure of climbing is so strong for me,” she wrote, though she worried whether her body – and perhaps the industry – would hold up for her.

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