If you missed our Pedalpalooza bike ride on the I-205 multi-use path in June, you’ll have another chance to see the new trees.
Next month Friends of Trees Green Space Manager Logan Lauvray will lead another bicycle tour, called the Equity Ride, that will include part of the path crossing through the Montavilla neighborhood.
Organizers of the Equity Ride include Friends of [...]
Join Friends of Trees for our Pedalpalooza bike ride on Thursday, June 24. Green Space Manager Logan Lauvray will lead a guided tour of the tree plantings we organized in partnership with the Oregon Department of Transportation, Metro and others along the I-205 Multi-Use Path. See nationally-progressive transportation policy action!
We’ll meet at SE 94th Ave. and [...]
Since 2007 local and state transportation agencies have wrangled with the canopy complications surrounding planned improvements of Powell Blvd., also known as U.S. 26.
There are a little over $1M in improvements planned—including enhanced pedestrian and bike crossings at key intersections—but only about $400,000 worth have been approved and funded.
A collective uproar could be heard from [...]
The Coalition for a Livable Future will host a regional sustainability summit Thursday, including breakout sessions that feature Friends of Trees planting partners.
The 2010 Regional Livability Summit runs 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the third floor of the Smith Center Ballroom at Portland State University.
Shelli Romero from ODOT will present on “Transportation Equity and [...]
Congratulations to Metro Council President David Bragdon, who received the 2010 Excellence in Urban Forest Leadership Award from The Arbor Day Foundation. Bragdon received the award for his role in preserving and restoring forest and park land in the Portland-metro region.
Metro is a key partner in two Friends of Trees projects initiated this year–a three-year project with the Oregon [...]
Tags: Arbor Day '10, Audubon, Gift Trees, I-205, Metro, ODOT
Scott Fogarty’s OregonLive guest column, Appreciating Oregon’s Trees, outlines a visionary way of valuing trees.
An excerpt from the piece:
By recognizing trees as capital assets, the I-205 project secured funding through a Nature in Neighborhoods capital grant from Metro’s 2006 voter-approved natural areas bond measure. The result: Thousands of native trees and shrubs will serve the [...]
Tags: BES, CTP, I-205, Mayor Adams, Metro, ODOT, planting, street trees
By Shelli Romero
March 20 marked the fifth in a series of community tree plantings along the I-205 Multi-Use Path. It also marked another milestone: the 249th tree planting at which Conan Harmon-Walker volunteered.
Born and reared in Oregon, Harmon-Walker is a network administrator for Legacy Health Systems and a 14-year volunteer with Friends of Trees. He [...]
By Kimberly Dinwiddie
Beaming with enthusiasm, 18-year-old Lavette Lacy of Northeast Portland happily spent a sunny Saturday morning along the Interstate 205 Multi-Use-Path near Airport Way planting trees and shrubs.
Lacy has not planted many trees in her life; in fact, the first tree Lacy planted was along the path in December.
Lacy is [...]
By Teri Ruch
Volunteers at the March 20 Friends of Trees planting along the I-205 corridor in Southeast Portland ranged from toddlers to retirees. They came from diverse backgrounds and groups, including nonprofits, regional and statewide agencies, nearby neighborhoods, high schools, and local businesses.
But all agreed on two things: Planting trees is good; and planting trees [...]
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
By Kimberly Dinwiddie
When most teenagers get their first job, the feeling of freedom and independence is exciting and memorable, although often times the job itself is less exciting. For 16-year-old Lovie Sanders this is not the case.
“This is my first job and I am ecstatic about it,” shared Sanders, whose new job is to guide [...]
About 23 Schnitzer Steel employees enjoyed the fine weather last weekend and helped green the I-205 Multi-Use Path in Lents.
Friends of Trees and its Green Space Initiative program, in partnership with ODOT and Metro, are planting thousands of trees along the transportation corridor over the next three years.
Exactly 600 large trees have already been planted [...]
By Elizabeth Craig
Planting trees and shrubs along the I-205 Multi-Use Path on a cold and windy Saturday morning, 19-year-old Antonio Askew thinks about the future.
“Like if I have kids, I can tell them, ‘Hey, I helped with that,’” said Askew as he pointed to freshly planted trees along the path.
Askew is a graduate of Portland [...]
Friends of Trees and its Neighborhood Trees (NT) program planted 178 trees the Saturday before Valentine’s Day, 20 of which went in on Oregon Department of Transportation land at N. Michigan and N. Skidmore.
The majority of street and yard trees planted went to homes in the Boise, Eliot, Humboldt and King neighborhoods.
All of the trees [...]
Tags: BES, ODOT, planting, street trees, yard trees