Posted on November 11, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Partners in Community Forestry 2009 National Arbor Day Foundation Conference: Nov. 10 Speaking to the general session at the National Arbor Day Conference, Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) stressed the importance of urban forestry and implored the attendees to “take it up a notch” in fighting for carbon legislation. The lifelong Portlander and former city commissioner [...]
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Posted on November 10, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Partners in Community Forestry 2009 National Arbor Day Foundation Conference: Nov. 10 Brighton and Toshio of Friends of Trees made a video presentation during their session at the Partners in Community Forestry National Arbor Day Conference ’09. The ‘mockumentary’ highlighted how simple it is to create and produce short videos via the tools already available [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Partners in Community Forestry 2009 National Arbor Day Foundation Conference: Nov. 9 With an emphasis on combining both ‘grey’ and ‘green’ approaches to improving storm runoff control, the Bureau of Environmental Service’s Tabor to the River (T2R) program hopes to plant 3,500 trees by 2023. That is, of course, if the funding becomes more secure, [...]
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Tags: Arbor Day '09, BES, G2G, runoff, T2R
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Partners in Community Forestry 2009 National Arbor Day Foundation Conference: Nov. 9 Calling Portland “an island in a sea of federal land,” Metro Regional Council President David Bragdon opened the conference with his introduction of Intertwine and stressing partnerships like the one with Friends of Trees. “The public wants to enjoy the outdoors without regard [...]
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Tags: Arbor Day '09, I-205, Metro, ODOT
