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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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