Did you see this OregonLive video of the Hawthorne Bridge brunch? Be sure to check the two-minute mark.
Want your own Plant It Portland sign? Just ask for one when you find your tree online.
–TR
Tags: canopy, G2G, street trees, video
You don’t need to wear a red blazer and heels to prune a tree, though it made great pruning attire for KATU’s Angelica Thornton.
Yesterday Friends of Trees’ Brighton West joined Angelica on the evening news to give Channel 2 viewers tree pruning tips for small trees.
How much more time does it take to prune a [...]
Tags: canopy, education, street trees, training, video, yard trees
Friends of Trees’ new Plant It Portland yard signs and door hangers are popping up across Portland. You can add green (and colorful signs) to your neighborhood, too.
Just find a tree for your home and encourage your friends and neighbors to find their trees at Friends of Trees, too. With everyone’s help, Plant It Portland will add thousands of [...]
Tags: canopy, street trees, yard trees
By Andy Meeks
Last Saturday – the first beautiful day in weeks (and, so far, the last) – Friends of Trees hosted a Summer Festival Volunteer Training at the PCC Cascade campus. We were thrilled to have nine very enthusiastic people join us to learn about the different Friends of Trees programs, our past achievements and [...]
Tags: canopy, Gift Trees, I-205, runoff, street trees, sunday parkways, volunteering
By Brighton West
So in my last two posts, I talked about planting the “Right Tree in the Right Place.” This suggests we should plant small trees under lines where the utility prunes the trees away from the power lines and tall trees under lines that don’t get clearance pruning. [...]
Tags: canopy, planting, policy, Power Lines, street trees
By Kris Day
The annual Oregon Urban Forestry Conference, this year titled Seed to City, will be taking place next week in Portland’s nursery-laden hinterlands on June 2 and 3. Covering a broad range of topics, this educational event should appeal to a wide range of associated professionals and interested community members. This year’s focus is [...]
Tags: canopy, education, urban forest
By Brighton West
Someone recently asked why Friends of Trees planted trees under power lines, implying that it was a bad idea. Not so if you follow the rule “Right Tree in the Right Place.”
Trees have different types of growing habits. We know that Doug-Firs have a strong central leader (the main trunk goes straight up), Accolade [...]
Tags: canopy, crabapple, Douglas-fir, elm, Power Lines, street trees
Some neighborhoods in Portland are luckier than others when it comes to tree canopy. Irvington, among those lucky neighborhoods, got a little luckier Saturday when Friends of Trees planted several dozen street trees in an end-of-year project.
Every year at the end of the planting season, Friends of Trees plants additional trees in Portland as an [...]
Tags: canopy, planting, street trees
Coming soon to a city near you, a Wiki-fied map of every urban street tree.
The San Francisco urban canopy got a lot of national attention last week regarding urbanforestrymap.org, a public forum that allows citizens to contribute and edit detailed information about the trees in their community.
Using Google Maps, the Web site provides a street [...]
Tags: canopy, street trees
A local artist is selling a screen-print called “Friends of Trees” online.
Dan Stiles said there is no direct connection to Friends of Trees, the famous Northeast Portland nonprofit organization that is replanting Portland’s urban forest.
Despite the lack of direct affiliation, the image does represent multiple trees (canopy) and a friendly interaction between a bird and [...]
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 [...]
Clackamas County is having a public review tonight of its new tree ordinance and Portland’s Citywide Tree Project (CTP) has a similar unveiling tomorrow night.
Clackamas County residents and concerned citizens are encouraged to come tonight to the Development Services Building at 6:30 p.m., 150 Beavercreek Road, Oregon City, for an opportunity to speak and comment [...]
The tree tally records continue to climb for Friends of Trees and there are still four full weekends of planting opportunities.
A quick look at the numbers so far from the biggest planting season in 20 years:
13,587 trees and shrubs planted
3,423 large trees injected into the local canopy
Over a dozen natural area restoration sites established
Thousands of [...]
Tags: canopy, I-205, linden, Metro, ODOT, planting, street trees, yard trees
On March 22 a new tree ordinance for Clackamas County will have its public unveiling.
Residents and concerned citizens are encouraged to come to the Development Services Building, 150 Beavercreek Road, Oregon City, for an opportunity to speak and comment before the Clackamas County Planning Commission.
Each speaker will have three minutes of allotted time.
The entire ordinance [...]
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 [...]