Friends of Trees is only a few weeks into its I-205 multi-use path partnership with Metro and ODOT, and already there is an uproar.
News posts on the bike forum BikePortland.org announcing the plantings and later a follow-up have garnered over 60 comments so far, some of the confrontational sort. More comments from the bike community [...]
This New York Times Op-ed decompresses Copenhagen and talks tree benefits and forest preservation.
In case you didn’t know why English Ivy and English Holly are enemies to the Pacific Northwest, the AP reminds us.
How a Florida mayor plants 10,000 trees: Be there for the last one.
Also from the New York Times, courtesy of their blog [...]
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This classic story comes to video courtesy of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Merry Christmas and thanks for reading Growth Rings!
–Toshio Suzuki
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Friends of Trees and its Green Space Initiative (GSI) program officially started planting along the I-205 multi-use path Saturday.
Thirty volunteers arrived at SE 94th and Yamhill to plant 100 trees the week before Christmas, successfully kicking off this three-year partnership between Friends of Trees, Metro and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT). The larger plantings [...]
A biking geophysicist at Western Washington University is studying the effect street trees have on reducing the amount of harmful particles in the air, reports The Olympian.
In an interview with Friends of Trees, Bernard Housen described how he has found urban street trees to be good monitors of airborne pollutants, because of their ability to [...]
Tags: carbon, I-205, Metro, ODOT, street trees
By Andy Meeks
Last Saturday, for the first time in over three years, Friends of Trees postponed a planting.
While the dangerous road conditions never fully materialized, all the purchased trees designated for holes in Portland, Beaverton and Tigard were never planted.
Almost immediately, the work began at the Friends of Trees office to get things back on [...]
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It has been four months since Metro unanimously approved the largest capital grant in its history to plant more than 2,000 trees along the I-205 multi-use path.
Now the planting sites are secure.
This three-year partnership, which involves Friends of Trees, Metro and ODOT, is worth over $400,000 and stems from the 2006 voter-approved measure 26-80, also [...]
—Treehoo!, not to be confused with other ‘-hoo!’-suffixed Internet search engines, is calling itself the world’s first green search engine, using 50 percent of its net profit to plant trees worldwide.
—The Friends of Trees R&D staff is looking into the 250-foot floating Christmas tree in Brazil, taking suggestions for a suitable ‘planting’ site in Portland.
—One [...]
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Can you name those sturdy, good looking Friends of Trees volunteers in the video?
Hint: Green Space Initiative program.
–Toshio Suzuki
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Due to the inclement weather expected, all Friends of Trees planting events scheduled for tomorrow – Saturday, December 12th – have been POSTPONED.
This is the first time in three years that a Friends of Trees planting has been postponed, but concern for the safety of our volunteers must take priority. We apologize for any [...]
A possibly irreplaceable tree valued at over $10,000 was cut down this week in Seattle from Washington Park Arboretum, reports the Seattle Times.
An excerpt from the story:
The 7-foot conifer was one of the park’s rarest specimens, an imperiled species collected from the mountainous Yunnan province in China.
“It makes me want to cry,” said Randall Hitchin, [...]
The weather in the morning dipped below 32 degrees Saturday, Dec. 5, but the vibrant volunteers and home owners from the Buckman, Hosford-Abernethy and Richmond neighborhoods were not deterred.
For more photos of the planting, which warmed up later in the day, visit the Friends of Trees Flickr page.
The next Neighborhood Trees plantings are Saturday, Dec. [...]
Willamette Week gives a bottle of wine, we give an original piece of art from a ‘trees’ series by Arch Diack.
For the first 70 donors, that is.
Only those who give $500 or more to Friends of Trees via Willamette Week’s Give!Guide are eligible for an ink on paper print, ranging from post card to calendar [...]
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For the first time Sunday, Friends of Trees planted at Collins Sanctuary in Forest Park.
In a celebratory, invite-only planting, volunteers who gave or received Gift Trees came together on a crisp and beautiful December morning to plant trees in honor and memory.
While one goal of the day was to restore the structure and overarching tree [...]
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–Portland’s future can look a number of different ways, including a tree canopy of over 30 percent. Just as they tried once before, the mayor’s office and The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability are holding community workshops to discuss the Portland Plan, reports The Oregonian.
–Did you miss the 2009 Partners in Community Forestry National Conference [...]
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Corvallis residents and partner groups worked together to plant 61 trees last weekend. The native trees were 1.5-2” caliper, generally 7-9 feet tall, and donated by the local Sierra Club.
“We are focusing more effort next year on Native Trees to School Yards,” said David Eckert of Willamette Watershed.
“We are working with the local public school [...]
Just as there are many species of trees, there are countless ways to give.
If anybody understands that, Friends of Trees does. This is how we break down our giving options:
1) Cash: most want it; some have it; we need it. Whether one dollar or $1,000, individual giving allows us to act out our mission statement.
2) [...]
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