By Andy Meeks In hindsight, it seems pretty obvious that if the Trees + Bikes movement had to start somewhere, it would be in Portland. With the popularity of our first two Plant By Bike! events in December and January and the increasing demand for more of these events, we’re offering two more opportunities at [...]
Tags: bike, street trees, yard trees
Both Friends of Trees’ Neighborhood Trees and Green Space Initiative programs set new records this month. The Green Space Initiative program hosted an unprecedented five plantings in less than a week, between January 17 and 23. And last weekend the Neighborhood Trees program planted more street and yard trees in one day than ever before—500! [...]
The public is invited to testify before Portland City Council at 6 p.m. on February 2 on the Citywide Tree Policy Review and Regulatory Improvement Project. The project’s proposed reforms will make Portland’s tree policies more equitable, comprehensive, and simpler to understand and enforce. Friends of Trees urges support for these long-overdue reforms. “Currently the [...]
Tags: development, education, policy
Oregon is home to the world’s tallest pine tree, according to a story in today’s Mail Tribune. The following is an excerpt from the story about two men who discovered the tallest pine (268.35 feet) in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest: Unless you are an eagle soaring above the conifer forest or a big-tree hunter [...]
Tags: pine
