By Teri Ruch
Honor your mother and the earth by giving Friends of Trees Gift Trees for Mother’s Day. For a donation of $35, Friends of Trees will plant a young native tree in honor of your mother and send a gift acknowledgment card in her name.
Gift Trees are planted in the Collins Sanctuary adjacent to [...]
Tags: Audubon, Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees
The Coalition for a Livable Future will host a regional sustainability summit Thursday, including breakout sessions that feature Friends of Trees planting partners.
The 2010 Regional Livability Summit runs 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the third floor of the Smith Center Ballroom at Portland State University.
Shelli Romero from ODOT will present on “Transportation Equity and [...]
Congratulations to Metro Council President David Bragdon, who received the 2010 Excellence in Urban Forest Leadership Award from The Arbor Day Foundation. Bragdon received the award for his role in preserving and restoring forest and park land in the Portland-metro region.
Metro is a key partner in two Friends of Trees projects initiated this year–a three-year project with the Oregon [...]
Tags: Arbor Day '10, Audubon, Gift Trees, I-205, Metro, ODOT
Over 70 people participated in the second and final Friends of Trees Gift Trees planting of the season Sunday.
These special invite-only plantings are made available to those who gave or received a Gift Tree. Most often, these gifts are made in honor or memory of someone special.
At the first planting in December, 275 native [...]
Tags: Audubon, Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees, planting, slideshow, video
An overwhelming majority of testimony Tuesday night supported moving the Citywide Tree Project (CTP) forward to a vote by the Portland City Council.
About two dozen speakers—neighborhood association leaders, research scientists, concerned citizens, home builders and nonprofit leaders—testified in front of the Urban Forestry Commission and Planning Commission.
An analysis of all the public testimony, written and [...]
Clackamas County is having a public review tonight of its new tree ordinance and Portland’s Citywide Tree Project (CTP) has a similar unveiling tomorrow night.
Clackamas County residents and concerned citizens are encouraged to come tonight to the Development Services Building at 6:30 p.m., 150 Beavercreek Road, Oregon City, for an opportunity to speak and comment [...]
On March 22 a new tree ordinance for Clackamas County will have its public unveiling.
Residents and concerned citizens are encouraged to come to the Development Services Building, 150 Beavercreek Road, Oregon City, for an opportunity to speak and comment before the Clackamas County Planning Commission.
Each speaker will have three minutes of allotted time.
The entire ordinance [...]
An urban conservationist for the Audubon Society of Portland circulated a tree-related post from his travel blog that highlights a street tree planting in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Here is an excerpt from Jim Labbe’s post:
In October, when I arrived at my first rental place along Hatertseweg, city workers were tearing up the street a few blocks away. [...]
Tags: Audubon, planting, street trees
Nature Night next Tuesday at the Audubon Society will feature two tree climbers that have ascended some of the largest trees in the world.
Brian French and Will Koomjain of Ascending the Giants will speak at the free lecture from 7-8:30 p.m. on their non-confrontational approach to Old Growth conservation and advocacy.
They are tree climbers, filmmakers, [...]
Her goal was to plant 46 trees—one for every year her son lived.
At her first Gift Trees planting in December, OraLee Olson planted 21 trees in memory of her son, Barry Cooper Olson, whom she lost last year to depression and alcoholism.
As of today, Olson’s friends and family have ordered nearly 75 trees to be [...]
Tags: Audubon, Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees, planting
In its 20 year history, Friends of Trees has planted over 382,000 trees and shrubs in the Portland-metro area.
During our current planting season, which runs through April, this tally is going up every weekend.
It’s an impressive mechanism to watch: teams of volunteers lending each other a hand; and a dedicated staff working as long as [...]
Tags: Audubon, bike, Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees, planting, Tigard
Saturday morning, the Audubon Society of Portland hosted a sneak peak tour of Collins Sanctuary, a recent Metro purchase with voter-approved dollars.
As the elected officials in the video will tell you (Metro President David Bragdon; Metro Councilor Rex Burkholder; Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish), Metro is partnering with Friends of Trees’ Gift Trees program to [...]
Tags: Audubon, Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees, Metro, PP&R, video
The Audubon Society of Portland is hosting an adult education course on winter tree identification Sunday, Feb. 21.
The $25-35 course led by Steve Engel will start in a classroom then head out into the Audubon Sanctuary after a sack lunch. Pre-registration is required.
Friends of Trees and the Audubon Society of Portland partner on many area [...]
Tags: Audubon, education, Gift Trees
This year, love each other and the Earth by giving Friends of Trees Gift Trees for Valentine’s Day.
For a donation of just $35, Friends of Trees will plant a young native tree in honor of a loved one and send a gift acknowledgement card in their name. It’s a great cause and [...]
Tags: Audubon, Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees, I-205, Metro
For the first time Sunday, Friends of Trees planted at Collins Sanctuary in Forest Park.
In a celebratory, invite-only planting, volunteers who gave or received Gift Trees came together on a crisp and beautiful December morning to plant trees in honor and memory.
While one goal of the day was to restore the structure and overarching tree [...]
Tags: Audubon, cedar, Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees