Rick Koval loops a measuring tape around a tree trunk and looks at the result. “Eleven feet, four inches,” he said while standing in a field owned by Robert Foose in Black Creek Township. “This is the ...

Trees are tall. Humans, relatively speaking, are not. And we're not the most agile climbers in the animal kingdom, either. But we are crafty, and we can out-think even the most wizened redwood. But ...