Posted on January 28, 2010 at 8:58 am
By Jesse Batty
On Tuesday, Vancouver Urban Forestry held another TreeTalk workshop, this time on ‘Hazard Tree Risk Assessment.’
Native trees here in the Pacific Northwest, like Bigleaf Maple, Douglas-fir, Western Redcedar and Oregon White Oak, among others, are designed to withstand wind.
Trees that fail and fall are those that have shown some signs [...]
Filed under: Neighborhood Trees, Portland Canopy, Tree City USA
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Tags: cedar, Douglas Fir, oak, Vancouver
Posted on January 6, 2010 at 2:43 pm
This from KCBS news in the Bay Area, regarding the more than 60 trees that were inexplicably removed from a busy shopping district.
“It was a very stupid, and thoughtless thing that they did,” said one woman quoted in the story. “Stupid to take them down, and to take them down all at once, and not [...]
Filed under: Portland Canopy
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Tags: Douglas Fir
Posted on December 23, 2009 at 11:22 am
Friends of Trees and its Green Space Initiative (GSI) program officially started planting along the I-205 multi-use path Saturday.
Thirty volunteers arrived at SE 94th and Yamhill to plant 100 trees the week before Christmas, successfully kicking off this three-year partnership between Friends of Trees, Metro and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT). The larger plantings [...]
Filed under: Green Space Initiative
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Tags: Douglas Fir, fir, I-205, Metro, ODOT, pine, planting
Posted on November 8, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Partners in Community Forestry 2009
National Arbor Day Conference: Nov. 8
What once was a grassy slope opposite I-205 is now home to 30 trees, courtesy of a pre-conference service project put on by Friends of Trees and Alliance for Community Trees (ACT).
Early arrivers for the 2009 Partners in Community Forestry conference took an eco-shuttle from their [...]
Filed under: FOT Events, Green Space Initiative, Portland Canopy, Tree City USA
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Tags: ACT, Arbor Day '09, Douglas Fir, I-205, maple, Metro, oak, ODOT, pine
Posted on October 13, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Let’s face it, city lots are small lots, but that doesn’t mean large trees won’t fit. In fact, it means just the opposite.
The problem with small trees is that the top of the tree (the wide part) is close to the ground. With a large tree, the small part (the trunk) is close to the [...]
Filed under: Neighborhood Trees, Portland Canopy
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Tags: canopy, dogwood, Douglas Fir, maple, shade, street trees, yard trees
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 4:52 pm
The City of Wilsonville is once again using an alternative route to control invasive plants… goats!
Yesterday the city hosted a ‘meet the goats’ celebration with sample cheese, milk and yogurt available; but the main attraction was the goats themselves, available for petting and demonstrating how 300 of them are eating their way through English Ivy, [...]
Filed under: Green Space Initiative, Tree City USA
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Tags: Douglas Fir, Wilsonville
