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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: bike, development
