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
Members of Portland State University’s Cycling Club were recently named USA Cycling Team of the month.
Why is this “tree blog” news? Several club athletes volunteer with Friends of Trees because it’s a dual opportunity to give back to the community and get in a weekend workout, too, said senior rider Julia Spahle.
“We’re on our bikes [...]
Tags: bike, planting, volunteering
The Center, Kerns, Laurelhurst and Sunnyside planting Saturday is becoming known as the Plant by Bike event of the year in Portland.
Of the 125 large stock trees that were planted, 36 were planted via three bike crews (see planting photos on Flickr).
There are two more Plant by Bike events this season, Feb. 20 in Piedmont [...]
What used to be an old auto shop that also sold lawn mowers outside (see Google map) is now gone, leaving only a miniature earth moving machine and some trees in peril.
As the picture captured last week indicates, several of the trees have already been damaged on North Williams Ave., just north of Pix Patisserie.
The [...]
Tags: bike, development
Planting by bike is no small chore.
It’s an impressive feat to transport 12-foot tall street trees and all the tools necessary to plant them using only pedal power.
This is what Friends of Trees volunteers mean when they say ‘Plant by Bike.’
While volunteers are encouraged to bike to all Friends of Trees plantings, this Saturday’s Neighborhood [...]
Tags: bike, street trees, video
With the summer arrivals of five new staffers at 3117 NE MLK Jr. Blvd., Friends of Trees added vertical hooks for hanging bicycles, upping bike storage capacity by nearly 100 percent.
Kudos, again, to resident handymen, Andy, David and Greg!
–TS
Tags: bike