By Brighton West If you’ve walked, biked, or driven on SE Hawthorne this month, you’ve probably seen our Plant It Portland! banner overhead at SE 16th. It will be there a few more days before it moves to another part of Portland. The banner marks the start of the second year of our Plant It [...]
Tags: BES, PGE, Plant It Portland, street trees, yard trees
Friends of Trees volunteer Terry Brier, Portland district manager for the Davey Tree Expert Company, was featured in a recent issue of The Bulletin, a company magazine with a national circulation. Friends of Trees appreciates Terry’s expertise and his dedication as a crew leader and summer inspector. We also appreciate the Davey Tree Expert Company’s [...]
Tags: arborist, G2G, volunteering
By Logan Lauvray I had a fun afternoon on June 21 with Lara, Sarah, and youth from the Community Cycling Center Bike Camp along the northeast portion of the I-205 Multi-Use Path. The Community Cycling Center Bike Camp offers a great opportunity for youth to gain knowledge and confidence about safe bicycling. On June 21, [...]
Tags: Community Cycling Center, Green Space Initiative, I-205, Metro, ODOT
By Jessica Antoine The City of Vancouver is looking for an AmeriCorps member to serve as Neighborhood Tree Coordinator (NTC) from September 1, 2011 to July 31, 2012. The NTC will work with Vancouver Urban Forestry and its organizational partner Friends of Trees to expand outreach efforts in targeted neighborhoods, to coordinate tree-planting projects in [...]
Tags: street trees, Vancouver, volunteering, yard trees
