By Erica Timm The North Portland Peninsula is about to get much, much greener. Friends of Trees is planting just over 700 trees in the Cathedral Park, Kenton, Portsmouth, St. Johns and University Park neighborhoods this year! This is the second record-breaking year for these neighborhoods. Last year, they broke all previous neighborhood planting records [...]

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What a weekend! Friends of Trees had four successful plantings on February 4, thanks to all of our volunteers, planting partners, and sponsors. Below are photos from our Green Space Initiative planting in Tigard taken by Phil Pasteris, photos from our Eugene planting taken by Becky Lubas Nickell, and photos from our Piedmont-Woodlawn neighborhood planting [...]

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Friends of Trees’ annual tree planting in the Boise, Eliot, Humboldt, and King neighborhoods this Saturday will add many shades of green to NE Portland. Joining Friends of Trees volunteers to plant hundreds of trees will be Portland Timbers Alumni Ambassadors Scot Thompson and Mick Hoban, Timbers mascot Timber Joey, and a crew of Timbers [...]

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I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree– A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against a volunteer in a safety vest A tree producing oxygen all day Will leave a legacy that’s here to stay Planting a tree is an amazing sensation Improving the urban canopy of this [...]

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