This New York Times story describes the remarkable life of 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, who passed away yesterday, leaving a legacy of peace and women’s empowerment through her tree-planting movement in Kenya. Several Friends of Trees staff members attended Dr. Maathai’s World Affairs Council of Oregon speech in Portland in 2006. The [...]
Friends of Trees was thrilled to receive five handsome trees as a donation from J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co. on September 16. The trees spent the day at 815 SW 2nd Avenue as part of MIG, Inc.’s 2011 PARK(ing) Day “park.” Many thanks to Dave Walters, Senior Landscape Architect of MIG, Inc., and to [...]
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By Andy Meeks Welcome to the first day of autumn and the season when trees change into their glorious colors. You can help foster that change by planting the next generation of trees with Friends of Trees as a trained volunteer Crew Leader! Crew Leaders are crucial to our planting programs because they know how [...]
Many tree planters know what a Hoedad is. Or do we? This engaging story in Oregon Quarterly (excerpted below) tells the story of Lane County tree planters whose enterprising co-op lasted 24 years and had 250 members at its peak. Read Robert Leo Heilman’s entire story, “With a Human Face: When Hoedads Walked the Earth,” [...]
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