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In 1997 Nelson co-founded the Tree-House
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by David Stiles that was sent to him by a high school friend and shortly thereafter, he built his first adult treehouse in his back yard in
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Nelson runs Nelson
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to build a 1,300 square foot treehouse at Brown's Camp
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