Local families from Sarasota-Manatee VillageLearners enjoyed a guided walk to the Canopy Walkway at Myakka River State Park led by Dr. Margaret “CanopyMeg” Lowman, Executive Director of TREE Foundation. The children and their families learned about the history and importance of canopy walkways, similar projects around the
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VINS (Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences) opened a new canopy walkway, serving New England and beyond. This 800-plus foot structure includes a tower, spider web, and eagle’s nest artwork. Located in Quechee, Vermont. Don’t miss it!! Read more about VINS new canopy walkway in this article
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From OnlyInYourState.com: Florida’s wilderness areas are so gorgeous that they deserve to be explored, and sometimes getting up close and personal on foot is the best way to do it. What are you waiting for? Lace up those hiking boots and check out these eight trails in
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Anna Santos de Dios traveled to Samoa to visit the Canopy Walk at the western end of Savai’i after being inspired by Canopy Meg’s presentation at the NatGeo Nights and her enthusiasm for the canopy environment. Read more about designing this walkway in the book, It’s a
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Article from www.nature.com: Ecologists are working with the nation’s Tewahedo churches to preserve these pockets of lush, wild habitat. If you see a forest in Ethiopia, you know there is very likely to be a church in the middle, says Alemayehu Wassie. Wassie, a forest ecologist, has
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Meet TREE’s newest Research Associate, Dr. Jen Sanger from Tasmania! Jen and her partner, Steve, are global tall-tree-climbers, plus they study epiphytes and take awesome photos of the world’s tallest trees. Here are a few images of their recent project in Taiwan, with a quick description written
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Dr. Meg Lowman and JASON Argonauts will bring you live events, real time Q&A, photos, videos and more direct from the rainforest of Malaysia. Here are a few ways you can follow the action.
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Meet our TREE Foundation scholar-student, Sky Lan, who is finishing her PhD in canopy science at Oregon State University. She has partnered with CanopyMeg‘s colleagues, Jen Sanger and Steve Pearce, who are Down Under colleagues working as part of the Malaysia biodiversity team. This video shows their
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Enjoy this cool critter, in the family Scutelleridae. Via Josh Martin: We nick-named this one “Punisher Beetle”, but 1) that’s not it’s name, and 2) it’s not a beetle, it’s a Hemipteran. I think it’s in the Scutelleridae (shield-backed bugs) family. Punisher Beetle by Tanner Boucher on
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Tanglewood Nature Center in Elmira/Lowman NY hosted 16 middle school girls for the “Meg Lowman Treetops Camp in July 2016”. In partnership with Cornell University’s Tree Climbing Institute and CanopyMeg, the girls learned to access the canopy!
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