Posted on June 19, 2013 at 7:46 am
This year’s Urban & Community Forestry Conference, sponsored by Oregon Community Trees and Oregon Department of Forestry, focused on “Urban Forestry Strategies: Linking People & Landscapes.” Each speaker’s presentation shed light on the connections between trees and human health. Keynote speaker Dr. Kathy Wolf, Research Social Scientist and Program Director at the USDA Forest Service, [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2013 at 8:12 am
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. (Photos below taken at the luncheon by Lucia DeLisa) The largest consumer co-op in the nation, [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2013 at 9:50 am
This May, voters in the Portland-Metropolitan region will have the opportunity to support natural-areas stewardship on their ballots. Measure 26-152 is a natural-areas levy that will do all these things: enhance and restore our region’s highest value natural areas; maintain cold, clean water in our streams and rivers; provide critical habitat for salmon, birds, and [...]
Filed under: Green Space Initiative, Tree City Oregon
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Posted on March 29, 2013 at 8:40 am
Congratulations to Friends of Trees Founder Richard Seidman, who celebrates his 60th birthday today! It would be difficult to measure the legacy that Richard has left already by founding the nonprofit Friends of Trees and directing us through our earlier years. Countless people have benefited from the nearly half a million trees that FOT volunteers [...]
Filed under: FOT Events, Tree City Oregon, Tree City USA
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