This year, love each other and the Earth by giving Friends of Trees Gift Trees for Valentine’s Day.
For a donation of just $35, Friends of Trees will plant a young native tree in honor of a loved one and send a gift acknowledgement card in their name. It’s a great cause and [...]
Tags: Audubon, Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees, I-205, Metro
The East Burn restaurant at the 1800 block of Southeast Burnside has a delightfully juicy pork sandwich that is garnished with a potato pancake, onions, sour cream and apple chutney.
They also have a street tree outside that is going to die.
“If this was an intentional prune, it was done without adequate understanding of proper pruning [...]
Tags: Dr. Tree
**Special Alert: Friends of Trees needs your backbone and green initiative this Saturday**
Tree planting volunteers are needed Saturday Jan. 30 at the Centennial, Hazelwood and Mill Park neighborhood planting.
Similar to the slide show from last month’s Neighborhood Trees planting in Southeast Portland, sturdy boots and mostly a willingness to get dirty in your community is [...]
Tags: planting, volunteering
Day 15 on the Hebrew calendar, Jan. 30 this year, is Tu B’shvat, the Jewish New Year for Trees.
From Chabad.org:
This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle.
We mark the day of Tu B’Shvat by eating fruit, particularly from [...]
Tags: fruit trees, planting, Tu B'shvat
The Center, Kerns, Laurelhurst and Sunnyside planting Saturday is becoming known as the Plant by Bike event of the year in Portland.
Of the 125 large stock trees that were planted, 36 were planted via three bike crews (see planting photos on Flickr).
There are two more Plant by Bike events this season, Feb. 20 in Piedmont [...]
By Jesse Batty
On Tuesday, Vancouver Urban Forestry held another TreeTalk workshop, this time on ‘Hazard Tree Risk Assessment.’
Native trees here in the Pacific Northwest, like Bigleaf Maple, Douglas-fir, Western Redcedar and Oregon White Oak, among others, are designed to withstand wind.
Trees that fail and fall are those that have shown some signs [...]
Tags: cedar, Douglas-fir, oak, Vancouver
By Andy Meeks
Our Neighborhood Trees program relies upon volunteer neighborhood coordinators (NCs) who canvass their neighborhoods to convince their fellow homeowners to plant trees in their planting strips.
We have amazing NCs—passionate, dedicated, and persuasive–but it’s not often that a neighborhood planting exceeds our sales expectations.
Case in point: This weekend’s planting event in the East [...]
Tags: planting
What used to be an old auto shop that also sold lawn mowers outside (see Google map) is now gone, leaving only a miniature earth moving machine and some trees in peril.
As the picture captured last week indicates, several of the trees have already been damaged on North Williams Ave., just north of Pix Patisserie.
The [...]
Tags: bike, development
There is a Hometree, a Tree of Souls, and even a Tree of Life.
Who knew the most popular, highest grossing film of all time would be about trees?
Friends of Trees is proud to endorse Avatar as its tree movie of the year.
Any idea what type of species that Hometree is?
–Toshio Suzuki
Tags: art
This new video created by long-time volunteer and former staffer Chris Runyard depicts the importance of keeping plastics out of waterways.
As Runyard will tell you, Friends of Trees and its Green Space Initiative (GSI) program plant trees and shrubs in restoration areas, responsibly using plastic tubes and tape to increase plant survivability.
This planting season GSI [...]
A group of investors is planning to build a green oasis in a desert this year and are naming it the Sahara Forest Project, according to National Geographic.
The project is meant to create not only a green oasis in the desert, but also a completely sustainable living model that provides its own energy and food.
Trees [...]
Last Thursday in the Lovejoy Room at city hall, the Urban Forestry Commission was briefed on almost $250,000 in proposed tree-related budget cuts facing the Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R).
As stated in a letter written by parks director Zari Santner that outlines all of the cuts, PP&R is prepared to cut four percent of its [...]
Over two years in the making, Portland’s Citywide Tree Project (CTP) is still moving towards completion, according to the city’s project team that reported the most recent status at yesterday’s Urban Forestry Commission meeting at City Hall.
Managed by the Bureau of Planning & Sustainability, the CTP is in stage three of four, which on their [...]
Planting by bike is no small chore.
It’s an impressive feat to transport 12-foot tall street trees and all the tools necessary to plant them using only pedal power.
This is what Friends of Trees volunteers mean when they say ‘Plant by Bike.’
While volunteers are encouraged to bike to all Friends of Trees plantings, this Saturday’s Neighborhood [...]
Tags: bike, street trees, video
Thanks to its two programs (Neighborhood Trees and Green Space Initiative), Friends of Trees has already planted 5,440 trees and shrubs this planting season. The same planting season that started Sept. 26.
With 32 plantings left, there is still plenty of time to roll up the sleeves and contribute to cleaning our communal air and water, [...]