Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) urges all of us to plant trees this fall. Learn more about his support for NeighborWoods Month and planting trees on the Alliance for Community Trees web site. Don’t forget. You can order trees for $35 to $75 from Friends of Trees, a cost that covers delivery, hole digging, planting assistance, and [...]
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Senator Ron Wyden introduced the small business tree-planting bill to the Senate today, one week after Friends of Trees Executive Director Scott Fogarty and countless other green infrastructure proponents lobbied in Washington D.C. Fogarty, in D.C. for the Alliance for Community Trees’ (ACT) 2010 Green Infrastructure Summit, joined Friends of Trees Board Member Nancy Buley [...]
Friends of Trees had a big week in Washington D.C., joining hundreds of other tree proponents to speak on behalf of green infrastructure and specifically the capitalization of trees. “We met with our Congressional delegates to discuss the ways green infrastructure help our communities economically, socially, environmentally and human-health wise,” said Friends of Trees Executive [...]
-Dec. 5, Sat. 10 a.m., is a Tree Planting with Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge -Rail Trail parking lot along Wintel Road- Planting coordinated by the Friends of the Willamette Valley National Wildlife Refuge Complex will contribute to restoring riparian woodlands on the refuge. Volunteers are invited to participate. For more information, contact Sheryl Brown at [...]
