Posted on March 10, 2010 at 1:55 pm
By Greg Tudor
There is still time to volunteer, like the dozens of Portland residents who did this past Saturday at the Neighborhood Trees (NT) planting in Montavilla and Mt. Tabor.
March is the last full month of plantings, with 10 more Saturday plantings remaining.
No pre-registration is required, but remember to wear weather appropriate clothing [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2010 at 1:54 pm
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 [...]
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Tags: I-205, Metro, ODOT, planting
Posted on March 8, 2010 at 9:42 am
By Teri Ruch
Mix about 20 bicycles, a dozen carts and trailers, 190 big trees, planting tools, the perfect pre-spring morning and 75 volunteers—from babies to boomers—and what do you get?
A fun planting day that ended with a community potluck and new trees to clean our rivers, add shade to neighborhoods, and [...]
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Tags: BES, bike, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees, yard trees
Posted on March 5, 2010 at 11:57 am
Tomorrow’s area plantings will be nothing short of spectacular.
Both programs will be operating at three simultaneous plantings with all the intangible elements working together: a great weather forecast; celebrity speakers; high-profile planting locations; and the typical laundry list of giving back to the community with a little exercise and free food thrown in.
The Neighborhood Trees [...]
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Tags: bike, I-205, planting, video
Posted on March 4, 2010 at 1:07 pm
An urban conservationist for the Audubon Society of Portland circulated a tree-related post from his travel blog that highlights a street tree planting in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Here is an excerpt from Jim Labbe’s post:
In October, when I arrived at my first rental place along Hatertseweg, city workers were tearing up the street a few blocks away. [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Friends of Trees and its Neighborhood Trees program planted 175 street and yard trees in Vancouver Feb. 27.
Over 100 volunteers came to the multi-neighborhood planting, which was sponsored by Northwest Natural.
This was the third of four Vancouver plantings scheduled this season, with the next and final event coming March 20—a planting for the Burton Ridge, [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2010 at 4:25 pm
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 [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2010 at 10:41 am
There are 14 Friends of Trees plantings remaining this season, from this Saturday through April 10.
As of Feb. 26, thanks to volunteers, donors, partners and sponsors, Friends of Trees has planted 11,310 trees and shrubs in the Portland Metropolitan area. That equates to over 386,000 trees and shrubs in 20 years!
A staggering tree tally that [...]
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Tags: I-205, planting, Tualatin, Vancouver
Posted on February 25, 2010 at 2:58 pm
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 [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2010 at 2:27 pm
The Citywide Tree Project (CTP) continues its public vetting process, with two open-houses and one hearing scheduled for next month.
Last week, the urban forestry commission received individual copies of the 755-page document that is described as a “regulatory improvement project” by Project Manager Roberta Jortner of the Bureau of Planning & Sustainability (BPS).
Last night, Jortner [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Several Disney music, television and film stars planted trees at a Celebrating Family Volunteers event earlier this month at Disney World.
Joe Jonas and Demi Lovato, among other Disney troupe members, planted while wearing aprons and implementing yellow hand shovels that normally could be used making sand castles or cleaning an incredibly large kitty litter box.
While [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2010 at 11:06 am
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 [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2010 at 10:22 am
Soccer hooligans? How about community-minded tree planters.
Thanks to long-time volunteer Irek Wielgosz, who initially posted an invite on an online forum, the Timbers Army annually volunteers at a Friends of Trees planting.
This year on Valentine’s weekend, about a dozen members affiliated with the Portland professional soccer fan club helped plant 178 trees in the Boise, [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Seven new fruit trees were planted Saturday at the Sabin Neighborhood’s new community orchard.
Mayor Sam Adams, along with Commissioner Amanda Fritz, joined the Portland Fruit Tree Project and other volunteers to plant the fruit trees: pear; asian pear; apple; persimmon; fig; plum; and cherry.
Supported by a grant from the city of Portland’s Neighborhood Small Grants [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Her goal was to plant 46 trees—one for every year her son lived.
At her first Gift Trees planting in December, OraLee Olson planted 21 trees in memory of her son, Barry Cooper Olson, whom she lost last year to depression and alcoholism.
As of today, Olson’s friends and family have ordered nearly 75 trees to be [...]
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Tags: Audubon, Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees, planting
Posted on February 16, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Angelina Jolie bought her husband and cohort Brad Pitt a 200-year-old Olive Tree for Valentine’s Day, reports US Magazine and The Sun.
The movie star couple and hurricane of international goodwill reportedly spent $18,500 for the tree, which will be planted, or transplanted, at their French chateau.
In comparison, a single tree purchased and planted via the [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2010 at 9:43 am
A new bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives is aiming to reauthorize the Small Business Association (SBA) tree-planting program from the 1990s.
The national small business tree-planting program (H.R. 4509)—sponsored by Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-OR) last month and co-sponsored by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)—has been referred to the House committee on small business for [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Posted on February 15, 2010 at 9:57 am
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 [...]
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Posted on February 13, 2010 at 7:39 am
The environmental blogosphere has picked up a story about Trees for Cities, a tree-planting nonprofit in the United Kingdom that is unabashedly promoting a planting Sunday as a place to find love.
Why not?
The event is organized for young singles aged 18-25, with the goal of pairing up planters to see if they can hit it [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2010 at 1:53 pm
The tents are going up, the desk spaces have been cleared, and yes, the tools and trees are ready to be planted.
Tomorrow’s Neighborhood Trees (NT) planting for the Boise, Eliot, Humboldt and King neighborhoods is special for a number of reasons, but reason No. 1: only once a year is a planting hosted at the [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2010 at 2:18 pm
In its 20 year history, Friends of Trees has planted over 382,000 trees and shrubs in the Portland-metro area.
During our current planting season, which runs through April, this tally is going up every weekend.
It’s an impressive mechanism to watch: teams of volunteers lending each other a hand; and a dedicated staff working as long as [...]
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Tags: Audubon, bike, Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees, planting, Tigard
Posted on February 10, 2010 at 1:31 pm
The majority of staffers at Friends of Trees commute by bike. And with the growing popularity of the Plant by Bike plantings, Friends of Trees was forced to address a serious issue for some planting sites: bike locking locales.
Especially for the Green Space Initiative plantings along the I-205 Multi-Use Path, where convenient places to lock [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2010 at 3:20 pm
In 1939, Al Capone contracted syphilis and commandeered an entire floor of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for about a week.
In thanks, he “planted” two Weeping Cherry Trees.
The remaining 70-year-old tree split in two Saturday and is going to need professional care to survive.
“I can’t care if Capone was infamous or just famous, that [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2010 at 9:26 am
Members of Portland State University’s Cycling Club were recently named USA Cycling Team of the month.
Why is this “tree blog” news? Several club athletes volunteer with Friends of Trees because it’s a dual opportunity to give back to the community and get in a weekend workout, too, said senior rider Julia Spahle.
“We’re on our bikes [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2010 at 12:54 pm
A new interactive landing site for the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) informs residents of runoff management options and monitors results for any specific property in the city.
A Portland home owner can type in their address and find out how much their average monthly stormwater bill is and how many thousands of gallons a [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Besides being overtly appropriate for children, this fun video made by a longtime Neighborhood Coordinator chronicles the Jan. 30 planting in Arbor Lodge and Overlook.
Volunteers and staff planted 182 trees at the North Portland planting, which was sponsored by Adidas. Meanwhile, in the East Portland neighborhoods of Centennial, Hazelwood and Mill Park, 106 street and [...]
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