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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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
