Posted on August 29, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Did you read this story, “Tree Planters Tout Shade and Beauty,” in Saturday’s Oregonian?
Friends of Trees has launched a media campaign featuring whimsical posters and door hangers with a “Where’s Waldo?” aspect to them—the more you look, the more you see.
“The old signs were a little wonky,” said program director Brighton West, explaining the switch.
According [...]
Filed under: Neighborhood Trees, Plant It Portland
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Tags: BES, G2G, planting, street trees, yard trees
Posted on July 20, 2010 at 8:43 am
By Kate Farrington
Last week Friends of Trees held three separate Neighborhood Coordinator trainings. Sunday’s was for new Neighborhood Coordinators, Tuesday’s was for Vancouver coordinators, and Thursday’s was for Portland coordinators. All three events were well attended.
Participants heard from Friends of Trees staff, Vancouver Urban Forestry, Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, and veteran Neighborhood Coordinators. The [...]
Filed under: FOT Events, Neighborhood Trees, Plant It Portland
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Tags: BES, education, street trees, training, Vancouver, yard trees
Posted on May 27, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Thirty-eight trees will add shade this summer around the PGE-Pacific Power joint substation at SE 8th Ave. and Harrison St.
On May 26, Friends of Trees joined PGE, Pacific Power, Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services and Verde to plant Rocky Mountain Glow Maples, Hawthorns, Prairiefire Crabapples, and Flowering Pears as part of the city’s Grey to Green [...]
Filed under: FOT Events, Neighborhood Trees, Portland Canopy
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Tags: BES, G2G, planting, video
Posted on April 30, 2010 at 2:04 pm
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 in [...]
Filed under: FOT Events, Tree City USA
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Tags: ACT, BES, policy
Posted on April 20, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Scott Fogarty’s OregonLive guest column, Appreciating Oregon’s Trees, outlines a visionary way of valuing trees.
An excerpt from the piece:
By recognizing trees as capital assets, the I-205 project secured funding through a Nature in Neighborhoods capital grant from Metro’s 2006 voter-approved natural areas bond measure. The result: Thousands of native trees and shrubs will serve the [...]
Filed under: Green Space Initiative, Portland Canopy
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Tags: BES, CTP, I-205, Mayor Adams, Metro, ODOT, planting, street trees
Posted on April 13, 2010 at 1:12 pm
The largest, most anticipated planting season in two decades is about to end for Friends of Trees, and the results are staggering.
A quick look at the not-so-rough numbers from the 2009-10 season:
16,764* trees and shrubs planted
4,526* large trees injected into the local canopy
Over a dozen natural area restoration sites established
Thousands of volunteer hours, from digging [...]
Filed under: FOT Events, Green Space Initiative, Neighborhood Trees
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Tags: BES, bike, I-205
Posted on April 11, 2010 at 5:37 pm
The city of Portland is looking for up to 10 new employees to work on increasing the area’s tree canopy on behalf of the Grey to Green (G2G) Initiative.
As a G2G partner with the Bureau of Environmental Services (BES), Friends of Trees works closely with these city staffers to get the right street and yard [...]
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Tags: BES, G2G, jobs, street trees, yard trees
Posted on March 26, 2010 at 1:43 pm
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 [...]
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Tags: Audubon, BES, canopy, CTP, policy, video
Posted on March 24, 2010 at 10:07 am
Calling trees just as important as big sewer pipes, Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman helped Friends of Trees kick off its largest Neighborhood Trees planting of the season Saturday.
Thanks to more than 200 volunteers who participated in the first-day-of-spring planting, 300 large street and yard trees were planted in the neighborhoods of Cully, Madison South, [...]
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Tags: BES, G2G, planting, video
Posted on March 23, 2010 at 12:07 pm
By Teri Ruch
Volunteers at the March 20 Friends of Trees planting along the I-205 corridor in Southeast Portland ranged from toddlers to retirees. They came from diverse backgrounds and groups, including nonprofits, regional and statewide agencies, nearby neighborhoods, high schools, and local businesses.
But all agreed on two things: Planting trees is good; and planting trees [...]
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Tags: BES, I-205, Metro, ODOT, planting, runoff
Posted on March 15, 2010 at 1:55 pm
On Wednesday the Portland City Council received a presentation from the Urban Forestry Commission, unanimously approving their 2009 Annual Report.
Urban Forestry Commission Chairman Brian Krieg, and fellow commissioners Joe Poracsky and David Odom of Friends of Trees, presented to the council on the value of Portland’s urban forest and the upcoming deliberations regarding the Citywide [...]
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Tags: BES, canopy, CTP, Mayor Adams, policy, PP&R
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
