By Kris Day Show your support for all that trees are and do at Arbor Week events all over the Portland-Vancouver and Eugene-Springfield metro regions during the month of April! Participate in one of the tree plantings, care workshops, or tree-centric social events highlighting the roles trees play in our communities. Friends of Trees will [...]
Tags: Beaverton, Oregon Arbor Week
By Jesse Batty Last Saturday about 50 volunteers, including seven dedicated crew leaders, came together to plant 40 native trees at the Beaverton Resource Center to celebrate Arbor Day. The event was a continuation of a previous Arbor Day planting in 2002 and will turn this urban environment into a forest of Oregon White Oak, [...]
Tags: Arbor Day '11, Beaverton, yard trees
By Andy Meeks Last Saturday, for the first time in over three years, Friends of Trees postponed a planting. While the dangerous road conditions never fully materialized, all the purchased trees designated for holes in Portland, Beaverton and Tigard were never planted. Almost immediately, the work began at the Friends of Trees office to get [...]
Tags: Beaverton, volunteering
The weather in the morning dipped below 32 degrees Saturday, Dec. 5, but the vibrant volunteers and home owners from the Buckman, Hosford-Abernethy and Richmond neighborhoods were not deterred. For more photos of the planting, which warmed up later in the day, visit the Friends of Trees Flickr page. The next Neighborhood Trees plantings are [...]
