Congratulations to this year’s Friends of Trees Leadership Award Winners: REI, ODOT Region 1, and former Portland Mayor Sam Adams! The awards were presented at Friends of Trees’ annual leadership luncheon at the Multnomah Athletic Club on May 16, 2013. The largest consumer co-op in the nation, REI received the 2013 Business Leadership Award. Founded [...]
By Erica Timm Friends of Trees appreciates all of you who have taken the time to write letters and emails to the Mayor and City Commissioners expressing your support for Friends of Trees, and those of you who have put on your tree team shirts and joined us at the last two Portland community budget [...]
By Whitney Dorer This past Saturday was the first in a series of three “Sharrows to Sparrows” bike rides put on by Mike Houck, Director of the Urban Greenspaces Institute, and Greg Raisman, of Portland Bureau of Transportation. Instead of my normal Saturday morning routine of gearing up for tree planting in one corner of [...]
By Andy Meeks We have many favorite times of the year here at Friends of Trees, but celebrating the end of planting season is among the best. We make the first order of business giving special thanks to the hundreds of key volunteers who are absolutely crucial components of the organization. We literally would not [...]
