It’s not every day that a Friends of Trees staff member is featured in the New York Times. And not every day that two newlyweds have such a compelling story to tell.
It’s also not every couple that races each other by bicycle after their wedding ceremony. Below is an excerpt from the story:
Afterward, the bride [...]
Tags: bike, volunteering
What do trees and bicycles have to do with equity?
Trees help all people equally. But first the trees need to be planted in all neighborhoods equally.
That’s one reason Friends of Trees is partnering with ODOT and Metro to plant trees along the I-205 multi-use path, which crosses culturally and economically diverse neighborhoods.
Cycling helps all people [...]
If you missed our Pedalpalooza bike ride on the I-205 multi-use path in June, you’ll have another chance to see the new trees.
Next month Friends of Trees Green Space Manager Logan Lauvray will lead another bicycle tour, called the Equity Ride, that will include part of the path crossing through the Montavilla neighborhood.
Organizers of the Equity Ride include Friends of [...]
Join Friends of Trees for our Pedalpalooza bike ride on Thursday, June 24. Green Space Manager Logan Lauvray will lead a guided tour of the tree plantings we organized in partnership with the Oregon Department of Transportation, Metro and others along the I-205 Multi-Use Path. See nationally-progressive transportation policy action!
We’ll meet at SE 94th Ave. and [...]
A new exclusive interview published today on BikePortland.org explains one of the main reasons why the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) changed the name Bike Boulevards to Neighborhood Greenways: trees.
Excerpts from the article:
The main reason for the change is to better reflect what these projects are all about. PBOT realizes that by calling [...]
Tags: bike, CTP, PBOT, street trees
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 [...]
By Shelli Romero
March 20 marked the fifth in a series of community tree plantings along the I-205 Multi-Use Path. It also marked another milestone: the 249th tree planting at which Conan Harmon-Walker volunteered.
Born and reared in Oregon, Harmon-Walker is a network administrator for Legacy Health Systems and a 14-year volunteer with Friends of Trees. He [...]
Monday, April 5, 7-9 a.m. and 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Tea Under the Cherry Trees with members of the Tree Steward Coalition, Waterfront Park, NW Everett & Naito Parkway
Tuesday, April 6, 1-3 p.m.
Arbor Day Celebration with Commissioner Nick Fish, West Powellhurst Park & Elementary School, SE 115 & Division
Fun, food & tree activities
Community & student tree [...]
Tags: Arbor Day '10, bike, cherry, education, PP&R
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 [...]
Tags: BES, bike, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees, yard trees
Tomorrow’s area plantings will be nothing short of spectacular.
Both programs will be operating at three simultaneous plantings with all the intangible elements working together: a great weather forecast; celebrity speakers; high-profile planting locations; and the typical laundry list of giving back to the community with a little exercise and free food thrown in.
The Neighborhood Trees [...]
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 [...]
Tags: BES, bike, G2G, hornbeam, maple, runoff, street trees, tupelo
By Teri Ruch
This morning’s OPB story by Rob Manning features a video that OPB Oregon Field Guide producer Vince Patton made of illegal trail creation in north Forest Park.
Here is a portion of the caught-on-video confrontation in text:
Vince Patton: “Are you putting in a legal trail? Do you have permission to be here?”
Man: “Oh, I’m [...]
Retail space beneath 18 eco-friendly apartments is coming to the 3900 block of the bike boulevard N. Williams Ave.
About half of the trees on the lot had to be removed to make room for the development, but everything not in the building footprint will remain, said Andy Leritz, project supervisor for Siteworks Portland.
“They tried to [...]
Tags: bike, development
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
The majority of staffers at Friends of Trees commute by bike. And with the growing popularity of the Plant by Bike plantings, Friends of Trees was forced to address a serious issue for some planting sites: bike locking locales.
Especially for the Green Space Initiative plantings along the I-205 Multi-Use Path, where convenient places to lock [...]
Tags: bike, I-205, planting, volunteering