Trees Can Help Your Company

Trees Can Help Your Company

If you’re thinking of rewarding or incentivizing employees, recognizing those retiring, trying to lure top prospects or otherwise acknowledging workers, think about the impact of trees. That’s right, trees.

Studies have shown that walking in trees lowers pulse rates, cortisol levels and blood pressure. Other research indicates that even spending a minimal time in forests benefits the immune system, and being around trees relaxes humans. It reduces stress and tends to impart a sense of well-being. Amazingly, hospital patients who enjoy a view of trees through their windows tend to recover faster than people without such a view.

So let’s see…what could you, as an employer do for your employees that would relieve stress and make them happier? We have the perfect answer—a 2- to 3-day corporate retreat in Yosemite National Park, led by a private guide who knows the trees.

Most everyone has heard of Yosemite’s magnificent stands of sequoia, most notably in Mariposa Grove. The park is also home to 34 other species of trees within its 1125 square miles. Due to the rise of 12 or 13 thousand feet in elevation within Yosemite, it boasts a range of climates that support a diversity of trees. The forests include a variety of oak, pine, fir, cottonwood, California buckeye, mountain laurel and mountain mahogany, not to mention willow, fragrant cedar, quaking aspen and many more species.

We provide all the camping and cooking equipment as well as the expertise to lead your corporate retreat through the trees to magnificent sights and experiences. The outdoor experience, customized to your needs, can include visits to park landmarks such as Bridalveil Fall, Glacier Point, El Capitan and Mirror Lake, and/or travel the backcountry trails through some of the most beautiful trees on earth.

Poet Joyce Kilmer was right when he said, “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”