Welcome to the Owner / Designer / Builder page of Entreepreneur Michael Garnier

Michael E. Garnier was born in Gary Indiana in 1948 and is one of eight siblings. He attended Michigan State where he studied engineering but dropped out after he was unable to continue wrestling. He was then drafted and became a Special Forces medic with the Green Berets where he served until 1972.

Michael moved to Oregon in 1973 to be a Physician’s Assistant and helped open the Takilma Free Clinic. In 1975 he bought his property and eventually stopped working in medicine and started wood working.

Over the years he built pole furniture and Dr.Birch’s Yankee Doodle Picture Propellers until he built his first treehouse in 1990.

Over the last 25 years he has been a pioneer in the treehouse world, innovating and designing the Garnier Limb which has enabled him (and countless others) to build treehouses all over the world. His latest endeavor, The Treehouse Guys, began in 2013 and continues today.

– Treehouse pioneer, started building treehouses professionally in 1990. it took 8 years to get a building permit for this treehouse. the first known building permit in the country. has more treehouse building permits than any other builder. Click here to view the stress analysis report.

– One of the Original Treehouse Guys, One of The Treehouse Masters Masters. started the World Treehouse Conference in 1998 with Pete Nelson. Click here to view the conferences workshops page.

– 25 year battle with the county to make treehouses legal at his treesort.activated the Tree Musketeers to fight a tear down order (a treevesty) by the josephine county building department Click here to view the historical account legalitrees.

– Did street theater for years doing a Medicine Show as Doctor Rocky Birch MDGQ (a Mighty Damn Good Quack)
inventor of Dr birches Yankee doodle Picture Propeller

– Did the first treehouse reality show pilot for the discovery channel with ITV Granada out of the United kingdom in 2003 it was a confrontational show and did not go to series.