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Tree Climbing: Learn the Lingo

What does it take to explore the forest's canopy? Here Young Explorer Kevin McLean shares five terms every tree climber knows.… more
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Tree Climbing: Learn the Lingo
Exploration & Adventure

Tree Climbing: Learn the Lingo

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What does it take to explore the forest's canopy? Here Young Explorer Kevin McLean shares five terms every tree climber knows. McLean received a Young Explorer grant to set up video camera traps to study and document little-known arboreal mammals in neotropical forest canopies in Panama.

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Tree Climbing: Learn the Lingo
Exploration & Adventure

Tree Climbing: Learn the Lingo

What does it take to explore the forest's canopy? Here Young Explorer Kevin McLean shares five terms every tree climber knows. McLean received a Young Explorer grant to set up video camera traps to study and document little-known arboreal mammals in neotropical forest canopies in Panama.

Learn more about Nat Geo Young Explorer grants
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