By Kris Day The Global Forest project at Harold Oliver Elementary School in East Portland has grown by three trees this year! Jim Gersbach, project coordinator, and nine third grade students—along with Kate Farrington and Kris Day of Friends of Trees—planted a Japanese Umbrella Pine, a ‘Victoria’ Evergreen Magnolia, and a Swamp White Oak on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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