Posted on August 3, 2010 at 6:04 am
Where else but Portland could Beavers team up with trees?
To thank all of our great supporters, Friends of Trees is offering our volunteers and donors free tickets to the August 14 Beavers game against the Albuquerque Isotopes. Many thanks to the Beavers for offering Friends of Trees discounted tickets.
If you would like to join us on August 14, [...]
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Posted on July 20, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Friends of Trees’ newest board member, Sky O’Callahan, is no stranger to nature.
Sky, his wife Skipper, and their son Conor (16) live on a farm south of Oregon City with their friends, Sue and Chip. The two families have formed a double-sized family on the farm for 25 years, with Conor growing up like a brother [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2010 at 4:45 pm
James Cameron, director of the tree-centric Avatar, recently planted trees in Brazil and elsewhere in promotion of environmental concerns and the release of his record-breaking film to DVD and Blu-ray.
In Brazil, Cameron lobbied on behalf of indigenous tribes that live along the Amazon River and are opposed to the development of the $11 billion Belo [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2010 at 10:24 am
Jeffrey Paul Fish is a local home developer who is a member of the Citywide Tree Project (CTP) stakeholder group. Fish Construction NW, Inc., started in 1973 and has since built close to 1,200 single family homes in the area. In 2004 the native Portlander was named the Home Building Association’s Builder of the Year [...]
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Tags: CTP, development, policy
Posted on March 5, 2010 at 9:34 am
Six giant Black Walnut trees were felled yesterday on the Oregon State Hospital campus in Salem to make room for power lines and an improved intersection, reported The Statesman Journal.
The trees were estimated to be between 75 and 100 years old.
Excerpt from the story:
Cuong Manh Nguyen took a break from his business, Center Street Auto [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2010 at 8:02 am
The Portland Tribune reported yesterday that several large street trees in downtown Milwaukie were cut down recently in an effort to improve the block.
Google street imaging allows one to see the precise trees in question and their full size.
Here is the news brief:
TriMet and Milwaukie cut down several trees along Jackson Street between 21st and [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2010 at 9:12 am
For the first time since 1980, the City of Portland is rewriting its codes and policies, including urban forestry.
Eric Engstrom of the Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability (BPS)—the bureau spearheading the all-encompassing Portland Plan—presented to the Urban Forestry Commission last Thursday on their specific topic and the overall status of the project.
Calling it the [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2010 at 10:30 am
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 [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2010 at 9:36 am
Residents of a subdivision in Woodburn will soon be billed anywhere from $500 to $1,100 for street tree removals and replacements, reported The Woodburn Independent Tuesday.
In an interview with Growth Rings, Woodburn Public Works Director Dan Brown said the nine-year-old Ironwood subdivision planted Sweetgum trees right next to driveways and light posts, causing serious damage [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2010 at 10:35 am
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 [...]
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