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 [...]

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Green Space Initiative held a crew leader training and planting at the Audubon Society, Nov. 14. Veteran crew leaders trained about 30 rookies on safety and planting techniques like tubing, mulching and matting. Four hundred trees and shrubs were planted before lunch. The species list includes: Cascara; Vine Maple; Nootka Rose; Western Hemlock; Grand Fir; [...]

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