Did you read this story, “Tree Planters Tout Shade and Beauty,” in Saturday’s Oregonian?
Friends of Trees has launched a media campaign featuring whimsical posters and door hangers with a “Where’s Waldo?” aspect to them—the more you look, the more you see.
“The old signs were a little wonky,” said program director Brighton West, explaining the switch.
According [...]

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What do trees and bicycles have to do with equity?
Trees help all people equally. But first the trees need to be planted in all neighborhoods equally.
That’s one reason Friends of Trees is partnering with ODOT and Metro to plant trees along the I-205 multi-use path, which crosses culturally and economically diverse neighborhoods.
Cycling helps all people [...]

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If you have attended a workshop on identifying trees in Portland or already know Portland’s tree species, Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) invites you to sign up for its Neighborhood Street Tree Inventory Training on June 26, from 9 a.m. to noon, at Bethany Lutheran Church, 4330 NE 37th Ave.
According to PP&R, a street tree inventory [...]

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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 [...]

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Congratulations to Friends of Trees Board Member Nancy Buley, who was honored at the annual Oregon Community Trees (OCT) Urban and Community Forestry Conference this month for her tireless advocacy on behalf of urban tree planting.
Nancy is communications director for J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co., which received Friends of Trees’ 2010 Business Leadership Award last [...]

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By Brighton West
So in my last two posts, I talked about planting the “Right Tree in the Right Place.” This suggests we should plant small trees under lines where the utility prunes the trees away from the power lines and tall trees under lines that don’t get clearance pruning. [...]

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Thirty-eight trees will add shade this summer around the PGE-Pacific Power joint substation at SE 8th Ave. and Harrison St.
On May 26, Friends of Trees joined PGE, Pacific Power, Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services and Verde to plant Rocky Mountain Glow Maples, Hawthorns, Prairiefire Crabapples, and Flowering Pears as part of the city’s Grey to Green [...]

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By Brighton West
In my last post, I pointed out that the rule ‘The Right Tree in the Right Place’ tells us to plant small trees under primary lines. But not all overhead wires are primary power lines. Those “telephone poles” hold primary and secondary power lines, cable lines, telephone lines, and other lines. 
Trees growing into primary power [...]

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Some neighborhoods in Portland are luckier than others when it comes to tree canopy. Irvington, among those lucky neighborhoods, got a little luckier Saturday when Friends of Trees planted several dozen street trees in an end-of-year project.
Every year at the end of the planting season, Friends of Trees plants additional trees in Portland as an [...]

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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 [...]

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America’s first or second favorite broadcast news anchorwoman planted a tree last week in New York.
Appearing in Madison Square Park in an effort to promote the “When Families Grieve” support group, Couric planted a tree with several young children and a few puppets dangling from her shoulders.
Couric appeared slightly haphazard in high heels when wielding [...]

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A lot of ‘tree’ content from The New York Times this week, including this article entitled “Palestinians Try a Less Violent Path to Resistance.”
Above, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is pictured planting a tree in the West Bank last month. Fayyad’s tree-planting technique appears to be relatively similar to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who [...]

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Conan Harmon-Walker is one of the pillars for Friends of Trees.
He recently celebrated his 251st tree planting event and has planted over 14,000 trees and shrubs as a crew leader (yes, he counts every tree).  In recognition of this amazing achievement, Friends of Trees planted a grove of trees in Conan’s honor at our biannual [...]

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A new photograph exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York features a series of photos called “Tree Planting,” reports The New York Times.
The 62-photograph display on a curved wall, highlights many color images from tree plantings that Friends of Trees volunteers are likely familiar with: dirt, tools, trucks, and improved landscapes.
The annual tree planting [...]

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Over 70 people participated in the second and final Friends of Trees Gift Trees planting of the season Sunday.
These special invite-only plantings are made available to those who gave or received a Gift Tree. Most often, these gifts are made in honor or memory of someone special.
At the first planting in December, 275 native [...]

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