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Tree climbing combines work, play for arborist

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Lyon Arboretum arborist Jamilee Kempton practices her climbing on an 80-foot-tall Chinese banyan tree.
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Jamilee Kempton claimed the women’s division of the 2013 International Society of Arboriculture Western Chapter Tree Climbing Championship. She conducts occasional tree-climbing workshops for women at the University of Hawaii’s Lyon Arboretum. “I love to see other women give it a shot because I know it can be nerve-racking in the beginning,”?the arborist says.