Posted on June 10, 2010 at 3:34 pm
By Andy Meeks
Last Saturday – the first beautiful day in weeks (and, so far, the last) – Friends of Trees hosted a Summer Festival Volunteer Training at the PCC Cascade campus. We were thrilled to have nine very enthusiastic people join us to learn about the different Friends of Trees programs, our past achievements and [...]
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Tags: canopy, Gift Trees, I-205, runoff, street trees, sunday parkways, volunteering
Posted on April 13, 2010 at 1:10 pm
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 [...]
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Tags: bike, Gift Trees, I-205, Metro, ODOT, runoff
Posted on March 23, 2010 at 12:07 pm
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 [...]
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Tags: BES, I-205, Metro, ODOT, planting, runoff
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 [...]
Filed under: Neighborhood Trees, Portland Canopy
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Tags: BES, bike, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees, yard trees
Posted on March 4, 2010 at 9:55 am
It has been a few years now and Portland continues to develop its infrastructure of street swales and curb extensions.
The Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) developed and is implementing these runoff-collecting tools along Portland’s streets in an effort to keep the Willamette River cleaner.
Street swales and curb extensions are also the next generation of street [...]
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Tags: BES, bike, G2G, hornbeam, maple, runoff, street trees, tupelo
Posted on February 23, 2010 at 3:07 pm
The iPhone application for street tree lovers finally exists. Of course, presently, it only exists for New York City street tree lovers.
Trees Near You chronicles all of the 500,000 street trees in New York City, providing species type, size and the estimated environmental and economic benefits provided.
As shown on the application’s Web site, users can [...]
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Tags: carbon, runoff, street trees
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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Tags: BES, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees, yard trees
Posted on January 26, 2010 at 10:51 am
This new video created by long-time volunteer and former staffer Chris Runyard depicts the importance of keeping plastics out of waterways.
As Runyard will tell you, Friends of Trees and its Green Space Initiative (GSI) program plant trees and shrubs in restoration areas, responsibly using plastic tubes and tape to increase plant survivability.
This planting season GSI [...]
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Tags: planting, runoff, video
Posted on January 20, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Thanks to its two programs (Neighborhood Trees and Green Space Initiative), Friends of Trees has already planted 5,440 trees and shrubs this planting season. The same planting season that started Sept. 26.
With 32 plantings left, there is still plenty of time to roll up the sleeves and contribute to cleaning our communal air and water, [...]
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Tags: canopy, carbon, Gift Trees, I-205, planting, runoff
Posted on January 14, 2010 at 10:09 am
By Angie DiSalvo
This blog posed an earlier question, “if a tree is cut down in the City, and nobody asks why, did it really happen?” The answer is an emphatic yes—and that particular tree was debated, considered, and permitted for removal under the watchful eye of Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) Urban Forestry.
The stump featured [...]
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Tags: PBOT, PP&R, runoff, street trees
Posted on January 11, 2010 at 3:41 pm
About 75 volunteers and community members gathered Saturday to plant over 160 trees with Friends of Trees via its Green Space Initiative (GSI) program.
The ceremonial planting—special dignitary shovels included—was the official start of a three-year project to plant along the I-205 Multi-Use Path.
Special representatives from the Oregon Department of Transportation, Metro and other elected officials [...]
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Tags: canopy, I-205, Metro, ODOT, planting, runoff, shade, Verde, video
Posted on January 4, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Portland’s newest downtown park, Director Park, is getting some new street trees right now—about 15.
Situated one block from Pioneer Courthouse Square and the Park Blocks, the park’s innovative design has spread to its planting treatments.
Notice the steps below, which include layers of gravel and intricate stone placement on top of the typical planting height (pictures [...]
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Tags: canopy, planting, runoff, street trees
Posted on November 23, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Every year during the rainy season, flooding on the Oregon Coast is a possibility. This letter to the editor published Friday in The Daily Astorian provides local insight in the cause and effect relationship cutting trees has with heavy precipitation:
Am I the only one who thinks it’s crazy for the county and the Oregon Department [...]
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Tags: runoff
Posted on November 12, 2009 at 10:26 am
The Oregonian reports this morning that the Environmental Protection Agency is butting heads with Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality and Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services over the Big Pipe and additional Columbia River safeguards.
The EPA wants to expand secondary treatment of the sewage and rainwater mix before it joins the river, while the local agencies [...]
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Tags: BES, EPA, runoff
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Partners in Community Forestry 2009
National Arbor Day Foundation Conference: Nov. 9
With an emphasis on combining both ‘grey’ and ‘green’ approaches to improving storm runoff control, the Bureau of Environmental Service’s Tabor to the River (T2R) program hopes to plant 3,500 trees by 2023.
That is, of course, if the funding becomes more secure, said BES Environmental [...]
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Tags: Arbor Day '09, BES, G2G, runoff, T2R
