The city of Portland is considering whether or not to annex more than 800 acres on the west side of Hayden Island. The Port of Portland owns most of the area, which is within the Metro Urban Growth Boundary.
At a City Council session on July 29, at 6 p.m., the West Hayden Island Community Working [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: education, planting, policy, street trees
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. [...]
Tags: canopy, planting, policy, Power Lines, street trees
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 [...]
Senator Ron Wyden introduced the small business tree-planting bill to the Senate today, one week after Friends of Trees Executive Director Scott Fogarty and countless other green infrastructure proponents lobbied in Washington D.C.
Fogarty, in D.C. for the Alliance for Community Trees’ (ACT) 2010 Green Infrastructure Summit, joined Friends of Trees Board Member Nancy Buley in [...]
Friends of Trees had a big week in Washington D.C., joining hundreds of other tree proponents to speak on behalf of green infrastructure and specifically the capitalization of trees.
“We met with our Congressional delegates to discuss the ways green infrastructure help our communities economically, socially, environmentally and human-health wise,” said Friends of Trees Executive Director [...]
Corvallis will soon consider five new initiatives that fall within their Sustainability Coalition, including one specifically geared for street tree and sidewalk maintenance, reports the Corvallis Gazette-Times.
The move would slide sidewalk and tree maintenance away from the homeowner and become city responsibility. If approved, the monthly utility bill increase for tree maintenance would be $.50, [...]
Tags: Corvallis, policy, street trees
An overwhelming majority of testimony Tuesday night supported moving the Citywide Tree Project (CTP) forward to a vote by the Portland City Council.
About two dozen speakers—neighborhood association leaders, research scientists, concerned citizens, home builders and nonprofit leaders—testified in front of the Urban Forestry Commission and Planning Commission.
An analysis of all the public testimony, written and [...]
Clackamas County is having a public review tonight of its new tree ordinance and Portland’s Citywide Tree Project (CTP) has a similar unveiling tomorrow night.
Clackamas County residents and concerned citizens are encouraged to come tonight to the Development Services Building at 6:30 p.m., 150 Beavercreek Road, Oregon City, for an opportunity to speak and comment [...]
The Oregonian reported yesterday that a for-profit subsidiary of Portland-based Ecotrust will begin selling carbon credits from the land it owns in the Pacific Northwest.
The deal, to be announced today, is a milestone in Ecotrust Forest Management’s long-term plan to purchase hundreds of thousands of formerly clear-cut acres from Alaska [...]
The Oregonian followed up this morning on some comments made last week at city council by Urban Forestry Commissioners regarding Portland’s need to plant more large trees and fewer ornamentals.
Commissioner Dan Saltzman expressed particular interest in this, using a follow-up question to allow the presenters more time to explain.
The story also quotes an updated and [...]
Tags: CTP, Mayor Adams, policy
On March 22 a new tree ordinance for Clackamas County will have its public unveiling.
Residents and concerned citizens are encouraged to come to the Development Services Building, 150 Beavercreek Road, Oregon City, for an opportunity to speak and comment before the Clackamas County Planning Commission.
Each speaker will have three minutes of allotted time.
The entire ordinance [...]
On Wednesday the Portland City Council received a presentation from the Urban Forestry Commission, unanimously approving their 2009 Annual Report.
Urban Forestry Commission Chairman Brian Krieg, and fellow commissioners Joe Poracsky and David Odom of Friends of Trees, presented to the council on the value of Portland’s urban forest and the upcoming deliberations regarding the Citywide [...]
Friends of Trees presented before the Portland City Council Wednesday, detailing the increasing value of an urban forest.
“We know how many stop signs we have, we know how many miles of pipe we have, we know how many fire trucks we have, but how many trees do we have?” asked David Odom of Friends of [...]