By Emma Gray Friends of Trees is going to grow a forest in three days! Sound crazy? Not if we have your help. Between May 31 and June 2, Friends of Trees is lucky to partner with Groupon and be the recipient of funds raised through this week’s Groupon campaign. During these three days, your [...]
Tags: Gift Trees, Green Space Initiative
Friends of Trees neighborhood coordinators and staff had a great time at the St. Johns Parade this month, where they featured the Plant It Portland! campaign. Friends of Trees even received an honorable mention for participating in the parade. “It was the first parade of the season and it rocked!” said Friends of Trees Neighborhood [...]
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By Kate Farrington Want to get more trees planted in your neighborhood, better maintain local trees, and grow our knowledge base about our urban forest? Then you should check out the neighborhood street tree inventories being conducted this summer in the Sellwood-Moreland, Eastmoreland, Kenton, Overlook, and St. Johns neighborhoods in Portland. Local community groups and interested neighborhood volunteers [...]
Tags: education, neighborhood involvement, research, tree care, tree identification, tree inventory, volunteering
The Oregon Department of Transportation and Friends of Trees are honored to accept the Women’s Transportation Seminar‘s 2011 Leadership in Diversity Award at tonight’s WTS annual awards event. The award is being presented for the three-year I-205 Multi-Use Path: A New Forest Grows project. The project is funded by a $410,000 Metro Nature in Neighborhoods [...]
Tags: Green Space Initiative, I-205, Metro, ODOT
