Posted on March 8, 2010 at 11:32 am
A room of area residents representing various city bureaus, environmental conservation efforts, development efforts, neighborhood associations and professional arborists met last week to further discuss Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability’s (BPS) Citywide Tree Project (CTP).
Although many in the group seem unable to recollect the beginning of their ’stakeholder sessions,’ most easily admit the process [...]
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Tags: BES, BPS, CTP, PP&R
Posted on March 8, 2010 at 9:42 am
By Teri Ruch
Mix about 20 bicycles, a dozen carts and trailers, 190 big trees, planting tools, the perfect pre-spring morning and 75 volunteers—from babies to boomers—and what do you get?
A fun planting day that ended with a community potluck and new trees to clean our rivers, add shade to neighborhoods, and [...]
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Tags: BES, bike, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees, yard trees
Posted on March 4, 2010 at 9:55 am
It has been a few years now and Portland continues to develop its infrastructure of street swales and curb extensions.
The Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) developed and is implementing these runoff-collecting tools along Portland’s streets in an effort to keep the Willamette River cleaner.
Street swales and curb extensions are also the next generation of street [...]
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Tags: BES, bike, G2G, hornbeam, maple, runoff, street trees, tupelo
Posted on February 15, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Posted on February 15, 2010 at 9:57 am
Friends of Trees and its Neighborhood Trees (NT) program planted 178 trees the Saturday before Valentine’s Day, 20 of which went in on Oregon Department of Transportation land at N. Michigan and N. Skidmore.
The majority of street and yard trees planted went to homes in the Boise, Eliot, Humboldt and King neighborhoods.
All of the trees [...]
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Tags: BES, ODOT, planting, street trees, yard trees
Posted on February 12, 2010 at 7:02 am
The Oregonian this morning featured Geoffrey Donovan and David Butry’s study on the impact street trees have on real estate prices.
Environmental beat reporter Matthew Preusch walks with Donovan through Ladd’s Addition and also references a local real estate representative and Jennifer Karps of the Bureau of Environmental Services.
An excerpt:
“When you think about it from a [...]
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Tags: BES, education, street trees
Posted on February 5, 2010 at 12:54 pm
A new interactive landing site for the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) informs residents of runoff management options and monitors results for any specific property in the city.
A Portland home owner can type in their address and find out how much their average monthly stormwater bill is and how many thousands of gallons a [...]
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Tags: BES, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees, yard trees
Posted on November 12, 2009 at 10:26 am
The Oregonian reports this morning that the Environmental Protection Agency is butting heads with Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality and Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services over the Big Pipe and additional Columbia River safeguards.
The EPA wants to expand secondary treatment of the sewage and rainwater mix before it joins the river, while the local agencies [...]
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Tags: BES, EPA, runoff
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Partners in Community Forestry 2009
National Arbor Day Foundation Conference: Nov. 9
Providing insight on high-level contract negotiations, two architects of the I-205 tree planting project gave their creation story for a packed session at the National Arbor Day Conference.
Scott Fogarty, executive director of Friends of Trees, described the target corridor as an “environmental justice problem” because [...]
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Tags: BES, I-205, Metro
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, said BES Environmental [...]
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Tags: Arbor Day '09, BES, G2G, runoff, T2R
Posted on November 4, 2009 at 4:08 pm
The Portland City Council approved ‘Treebate‘ today, the Bureau of Environmental Services’ (BES) latest effort to entice more home owners to plant trees on their property.
Through the program, Portland residents can fill out a short form and send in their tree purchase receipt for up to $50 off a future utility bill.
Similar to the BES [...]
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Tags: BES, G2G
Posted on October 20, 2009 at 2:53 pm
For the first time Saturday Friends of Trees planted at Powers Marine Park along the Willamette River.
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Posted on October 20, 2009 at 9:50 am
Tree seedlings, tree plantings, tree awards, tree advice … all of it is happening this Saturday at Dig-It.
The Portland Parks & Recreation event, with Friends of Trees and Bureau of Environmental Services, runs from 10 a.m. to noon at Mt. Tabor Middle School and is the city-wide start of fall planting season.
While the Green Space [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Sept. 29 to Oct. 17 is Tree Steward training with Portland Public Parks & Recreation
Seven session course covers general and advanced arbor care, tree biology, identification, planting and preservation. Once trained, neighborhood tree stewards work with PP&R staff on tree projects. Class is for ages 14 and up and costs $25.
Oct. 3, Sat. 9 a.m. [...]
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Tags: ACT, BES, education, planting, PP&R, Tigard, training, Vancouver, volunteering
Posted on September 9, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Nothing beats the oh-so wonderful, ‘Y1.’ For the Bureau of Environmental Services’ crew canvassing Portland’s neighborhoods, this is the golden codename that gets a street tree in the ground.
As part of Portland’s Grey to Green Initiative with Friends of Trees, these city employees are in their first full-time season of detailed information gathering and door-to-door [...]
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Tags: BES, G2G, oak, planting, street trees, tulip, yard trees
