Ned Sodja, a 20-year veteran tree inspector with Portland Urban Forestry, talks us through a tree removal inspection in Eastmoreland during a Friends of Trees ride-along yesterday.
Check back with the blog on Monday for an in-depth feature on the ride-along that will include the ‘hows’ and ‘whys’ of residential tree removal in Portland.
–Toshio Suzuki
There are 14 Friends of Trees plantings remaining this season, from this Saturday through April 10.
As of Feb. 26, thanks to volunteers, donors, partners and sponsors, Friends of Trees has planted 11,310 trees and shrubs in the Portland Metropolitan area. That equates to over 386,000 trees and shrubs in 20 years!
A staggering tree tally that [...]
The New York Daily News offered this update yesterday on the MillionTreesNYC project, including space to relay the benefits street trees provide:
Since October of 2007, MillionTreesNYC has planted over 300,000 trees of which 165,000 have been located in New York City’s forests – the result of a partnership with Natural Resources Group. NRG is the [...]
Tags: street trees
About 23 Schnitzer Steel employees enjoyed the fine weather last weekend and helped green the I-205 Multi-Use Path in Lents.
Friends of Trees and its Green Space Initiative program, in partnership with ODOT and Metro, are planting thousands of trees along the transportation corridor over the next three years.
Exactly 600 large trees have already been planted [...]
The Citywide Tree Project (CTP) continues its public vetting process, with two open-houses and one hearing scheduled for next month.
Last week, the urban forestry commission received individual copies of the 755-page document that is described as a “regulatory improvement project” by Project Manager Roberta Jortner of the Bureau of Planning & Sustainability (BPS).
Last night, Jortner [...]
Several Disney music, television and film stars planted trees at a Celebrating Family Volunteers event earlier this month at Disney World.
Joe Jonas and Demi Lovato, among other Disney troupe members, planted while wearing aprons and implementing yellow hand shovels that normally could be used making sand castles or cleaning an incredibly large kitty litter box.
While [...]
By Teri Ruch
This morning’s OPB story by Rob Manning features a video that OPB Oregon Field Guide producer Vince Patton made of illegal trail creation in north Forest Park.
Here is a portion of the caught-on-video confrontation in text:
Vince Patton: “Are you putting in a legal trail? Do you have permission to be here?”
Man: “Oh, I’m [...]
The iPhone application for street tree lovers finally exists. Of course, presently, it only exists for New York City street tree lovers.
Trees Near You chronicles all of the 500,000 street trees in New York City, providing species type, size and the estimated environmental and economic benefits provided.
As shown on the application’s Web site, users can [...]
Tags: carbon, runoff, street trees
For the first time since 1980, the City of Portland is rewriting its codes and policies, including urban forestry.
Eric Engstrom of the Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability (BPS)—the bureau spearheading the all-encompassing Portland Plan—presented to the Urban Forestry Commission last Thursday on their specific topic and the overall status of the project.
Calling it the [...]
Tags: BPS, carbon, development, policy
Two large trees on Multnomah County right-of-way were removed last week at the corner of Southwest Stark Street and Naito Parkway.
“They were in decline but the main reason they were coming out was the sidewalk damage,” said Jim Field, the inspector for Portland’s Urban Forestry. “It came time to get them out of there.”
Naito Parkway, [...]
By Elizabeth Craig
Planting trees and shrubs along the I-205 Multi-Use Path on a cold and windy Saturday morning, 19-year-old Antonio Askew thinks about the future.
“Like if I have kids, I can tell them, ‘Hey, I helped with that,’” said Askew as he pointed to freshly planted trees along the path.
Askew is a graduate of Portland [...]
Soccer hooligans? How about community-minded tree planters.
Thanks to long-time volunteer Irek Wielgosz, who initially posted an invite on an online forum, the Timbers Army annually volunteers at a Friends of Trees planting.
This year on Valentine’s weekend, about a dozen members affiliated with the Portland professional soccer fan club helped plant 178 trees in the Boise, [...]
Seven new fruit trees were planted Saturday at the Sabin Neighborhood’s new community orchard.
Mayor Sam Adams, along with Commissioner Amanda Fritz, joined the Portland Fruit Tree Project and other volunteers to plant the fruit trees: pear; asian pear; apple; persimmon; fig; plum; and cherry.
Supported by a grant from the city of Portland’s Neighborhood Small Grants [...]
Tags: apple, cherry, fig, fruit trees, Mayor Adams, pear, persimmon, planting, plum
Her goal was to plant 46 trees—one for every year her son lived.
At her first Gift Trees planting in December, OraLee Olson planted 21 trees in memory of her son, Barry Cooper Olson, whom she lost last year to depression and alcoholism.
As of today, Olson’s friends and family have ordered nearly 75 trees to be [...]
Tags: Audubon, Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees, planting
What do you get when you cross an American Sycamore with an Oriental Sycamore?
The answer is not ‘Mixed-race Sycamore.’
According to The Los Angeles Times, the result is “probably the most planted urban street tree in the world.”
This big tree, found in London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles, tolerates polluted air, compacted soil and hard [...]