This is one of my favorite features, this flyover where you're eight feet off the surface of the High Line, running through a canopy of trees.

by the elevated canopy

by the elevated canopy

And the elevated canopy

And the elevated canopy

He saw nests in the canopy at one of our Canopy Confluences in the Pacific Northwest, and created this beautiful sculpture.

We consult to the media about canopy questions we have a canopy newsletter we have an email LISTSERV.

These canopy communities are fragile.

By the Canopy Raised High

By the Canopy Raised High

I was interested, and my canopy researcher colleagues have been interested in the dynamics of the canopy plants that live in the forest.

Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy

And so we're trying to disseminate information about the importance of the canopy, the beauty of the canopy, the necessity of intact canopies, to people outside of academia.

4,000 of those ants live exclusively in the forest canopy.

The most mysterious part of forests is the upper tree canopy.

We've had dance people up in the canopy.

I'd like to take you all on a journey up to the forest canopy, and share with you what canopy researchers are asking and also how they're communicating with other people outside of science.

And I brought a little segment to give you of Duke Brady's Canopy Rap.

I found two trees but not any kind of trees, trees with character and then a very long rope.

That is, you ask any generic question about this how many trees of a given size, how many branches of a given size does a tree have, how many leaves, what is the energy flowing through each branch, what is the size of the canopy, what is its growth, what is its mortality?

And olive trees and palm trees

And olive trees and palm trees

What I do is I bring together scientists and artists of all kinds, and we spend a week in the forest on these little platforms and we look at nature, we look at trees, we look at the canopy, and we communicate, and exchange, and express what we see together.

And some of equipment went with them, on the top of the canopy, to save it.

But then you enter the Redwood canopy, and it's like coming through a layer of clouds.

And Dr. Terry Erwin, in 1983, called the canopy, the last biotic frontier.

He's not collecting plants, he's going to save our equipment on the canopy.

We basically did a striptease, architectural striptease, where we're framing with this kind of canopy the underside of three levels of expansion of Juilliard, about 45,000 square feet cutting it to the angle of Broadway, and then exposing, using that canopy to frame Tully Hall.

And I'd like to just tell you one of our projects, which is the generation of Canopy Confluences.

full of various trees.

full of various trees.

Exploring with them the forest canopy has been one of the most lovely things of my existence on Earth.

He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

He smote their vines also and their fig trees and brake the trees of their coasts.

He smote their vines also and their fig trees and brake the trees of their coasts.

The trees, mangrove trees, are filled with fireflies communicating with light.

Saving the Trees of Life

So then you look around, you're under a canopy and you say, This is good.

We brought musicians to the canopy, and they made their music and it's fantastic music.

On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.

On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.

We were flying at 100 meters above the top of the canopy to measure this molecule incredibly dangerous stuff.

a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates a land of olive trees and honey

a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates a land of olive trees and honey