Friends of Trees will hold a memorial service for Neighborhood Trees Specialist David Odom at the World Forestry Center’s Miller Hall, 4033 SW Canyon Road, on Monday, January 30. The service is at 1:00 p.m. and will be followed by a memorial tree planting at 4:30 pm at Woodlawn Park, in the neighborhood where David [...]
The Willamette River and Portland Harbor play a critical role in our environmental, economic, cultural, and recreational lives. Add your voice by taking a survey, and donate money to Friends of Trees! Planting trees makes our rivers cleaner. Portland Harbor Partnership is working to raise awareness about the Portland Harbor Superfund Site on the Willamette [...]
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Oregon Tilth, in partnership with Clackamas Community College, is offering a five-day training from January 23 to 27 on organic land care accreditation for landscape professionals. The training includes a keynote presentation by Jeff Lownfels, an international leader in the soil food web movement and author of “Teaming with Microbes, A Gardener’s Guide to The [...]
We often talk about the good things that grow on trees, but what about trees’ native intelligence? The excerpt below is from an NPR story, which you can listen to or read on NPR’s web site. Hurricanes topple plenty of trees, but when you think about it, the more amazing thing is that many trees can [...]
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