From technicianonline.com:
Learning the Ropes
Specialists in forest canopy research and in tree climbing came together to pass on climbing tips.Meg Lowman, a scientist with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, first started her work in rain forest canopies in 1979 with a will to explore the heights of forest ecology and a harness she fashioned with a sewing machine. Lowman brought her decades of experience to N.C. State to instruct a climbing workshop on what has been her passion and livelihood.
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