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Back to the Trees
circletimessquare writes "This story should excite the nerd in anyone. Build a luxury treehouse! The New York Times reports on an entire subculture devoted to an idea which sounds funny at first... but really, why not? Much serious discussion in the article about the technical considerations involved in treehouse construction. Also mention of 'treesorts' at the bottom of the article (one being called 'Lothlorien Woods Hide-a-way' lol). I hunted down some links to two of the big players mentioned in the article, TreeHouse Workshop Inc. and the World Treehouse Conference. No mention as to whether or not they support Banyan VINES (sorry, I couldn't resist)."
There's also the issue of earthquakes out here in California. For all you easterners out there: trees tend to shake and swing during earthquakes. I've read acounts of the 1964 Alaska quake (magnitude 9.2) where the trees whipped the ground. Sorry, but I'm not going to live in a house that doubles as a trebuchet.