Carl Koehler

Carl Andrew Koehler, (also known as He-finds-trees) is a dendrologist and arborist, poet and author from rural upstate New York, who follows the Good Red Path of the Haudenosaunee. He travels throughout the east and mid-west with his hiking companion Elkhound-mix "Gyfa" exploring and studying natural, scenic, and historic areas. In a bygone, romantic era, with his great miscellany of natural science trivia, Carl would have been known as a "traveling naturalist." However, that leisurely gentleman's occupation no longer pays the bills in today's economy, so Carl obtained a conservation biology degree from SUNY Cortland. He has worked in forestry science for several prestigious research universities, for the National Science Foundation and the National Institute for Climate Change Research, and most recently as an arborist in private environmental consulting industry. He would like someday to become a "tree doctor" and manage forest health for sustainability and natural ecological balance (which is sometimes not managing it all). Carl once told his dendrology classmates that in twenty years, they would read about him "saving trees." It has not been twenty years, but, "Talking Trees & Spirit Trails" begins to fulfill that prediction he made to his class.

You may contact the author at:

tree.finder@yahoo.com

PO Box 404 Avoca, NY 14809