BOULDER, Colo. — Arborist, Eric Jaskuta, hucked a bean bag towards a branch in a Locust at University of Colorado Boulder. A string trailed the weighted sack that Jaskuta uses to pull his climbing rope into the tree.
It was late October, and Jaskuta, alongside fellow arborists Vince Aquino and Claude Masson, planned to cut a series of dead branches that dangled over the Broadway bike path.
Arborists’ first priority is hazard mitigation, said Jaskuta…