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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		'They're living history': Why these arborists search for Washington's tallest trees
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:08:59
	Publish Date:		2019-09-07 13:00:00
	Description:		This story originally aired Dec. 31, 2016. Tacoma arborist Mik Miazio loves trees. He has loved them since he was a kid growing up in New Jersey. "I remember climbing my first tree when I was a kid. As soon as I was able to, I would jump right in there and disappear. I’m in my own world right there," Miazio said. It was this love that led Miazio to discover the tallest tree in Tacoma's Point Defiance Park. He noticed the giant Douglas Fir poking out of the canopy when he moved to Tacoma three years ago. “I was just sort of curious about how tall these trees are. One day, I went on Google Earth and I took a virtual flight in between the canopy. I went to what I thought was the tallest tree and I took GPS coordinates. I bushwhacked my way there and then I took some measurements and eventually confirmed the tree is 217 feet tall," recalled Miazio. When he first found the tree he'd been searching for on the internet, Miazio fell to his knees in admiration. Then he hooked up some ropes and
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