Senator Ron Wyden introduced the small business tree-planting bill to the Senate today, one week after Friends of Trees Executive Director Scott Fogarty and countless other green infrastructure proponents lobbied in Washington D.C. Fogarty, in D.C. for the Alliance for Community Trees’ (ACT) 2010 Green Infrastructure Summit, joined Friends of Trees Board Member Nancy Buley [...]
Some neighborhoods in Portland are luckier than others when it comes to tree canopy. Irvington, among those lucky neighborhoods, got a little luckier Saturday when Friends of Trees planted several dozen street trees in an end-of-year project. Every year at the end of the planting season, Friends of Trees plants additional trees in Portland as [...]
Tags: canopy, planting, street trees
Coming soon to a city near you, a Wiki-fied map of every urban street tree. The San Francisco urban canopy got a lot of national attention last week regarding urbanforestrymap.org, a public forum that allows citizens to contribute and edit detailed information about the trees in their community. Using Google Maps, the Web site provides [...]
Tags: canopy, street trees
There are no free haircuts and no cowboys eating their hats, just quality trees being sold at extraordinarily low prices. Friends of Trees planted over 17,000 trees and shrubs this season, and there are a few dozen leftovers. All trees are between six and 12-feet in height, and all are hand-selected from various Willamette Valley [...]
