Gresham’s Tree Forum starts Saturday at 9 a.m. at City Hall with an open house on the benefits of trees.
Forum speakers and participants include long-time Friends of Trees volunteer Jim Gersbach, who will be presenting on the values of street and yard trees.
Nancy Buley and Keith Warren of J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co.—a long-time [...]
Tags: education, street trees, yard trees
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 [...]
Tags: BES, bike, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees, yard trees
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. [...]
Tags: Audubon, planting, street trees
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 [...]
Tags: BES, bike, G2G, hornbeam, maple, runoff, street trees, tupelo
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, [...]
Tags: planting, street trees, Vancouver, volunteering, yard trees
Sometimes the street tree inspection is done before the pickup truck is parked.
That’s what comes with 20 years of experience as a Portland Urban Forestry tree inspector.
Ned Sodja, one of eight urban forestry inspectors for Portland, is responsible for all residential street tree removal inspections in Southeast Portland.
Dealing with street tree removals—both fining for illegal [...]
Tags: apple, beech, education, policy, street trees, Zelkova
The New York Daily News offered this update yesterday on the MillionTreesNYC project, including space to relay the benefits street trees provide:
Since October of 2007, MillionTreesNYC has planted over 300,000 trees of which 165,000 have been located in New York City’s forests – the result of a partnership with Natural Resources Group. NRG is the [...]
Tags: street trees
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 [...]
Tags: carbon, runoff, street trees
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 [...]
Tags: BES, ODOT, planting, street trees, yard trees
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 [...]
Tags: planting, street trees, yard trees
The Oregonian this morning featured Geoffrey Donovan and David Butry’s study on the impact street trees have on real estate prices.
Environmental beat reporter Matthew Preusch walks with Donovan through Ladd’s Addition and also references a local real estate representative and Jennifer Karps of the Bureau of Environmental Services.
An excerpt:
“When you think about it from a [...]
Tags: BES, education, street trees
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 [...]
Tags: BES, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees, yard trees
Residents of a subdivision in Woodburn will soon be billed anywhere from $500 to $1,100 for street tree removals and replacements, reported The Woodburn Independent Tuesday.
In an interview with Growth Rings, Woodburn Public Works Director Dan Brown said the nine-year-old Ironwood subdivision planted Sweetgum trees right next to driveways and light posts, causing serious damage [...]
Tags: development, gum, street trees, Woodburn
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 [...]
Tags: planting, street trees, video, yard trees
The Neighborhood Trees (NT) program plants large street and yard trees in various Portland-metro urban areas. With proper care, large stock trees have a great survivability rate and are able to quickly impact their environmental.
While trucks are usually required for NT plantings, this Jan. 23 planting in Southeast Portland shows how three Plant by Bike [...]
Tags: I-205, Metro, ODOT, planting, slideshow, street trees, volunteering, yard trees
Planting by bike is no small chore.
It’s an impressive feat to transport 12-foot tall street trees and all the tools necessary to plant them using only pedal power.
This is what Friends of Trees volunteers mean when they say ‘Plant by Bike.’
While volunteers are encouraged to bike to all Friends of Trees plantings, this Saturday’s Neighborhood [...]
Tags: bike, street trees, video
Anyone catch this CBS news video from late last year? Inspiring short piece about a man who took it upon himself to plant street trees in his L.A. neighborhood.
–courtesy Kris Day
Tags: canopy, street trees, video
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 [...]
Tags: PBOT, PP&R, runoff, street trees
The Portland Fruit Tree Project (PFTP) is expanding its winter pruning efforts to a year-round Tree Stewardship Program.
The more tree stewards, the better.
Winter pruning workshops will run this month and next month. Fruit tree selection and planting workshops begin in March, with other seasonal workshops to follow.
For more information on this program or PFTP, contact [...]
Tags: education, fruit trees, PFTP, street trees, yard trees
Reading this blog not only educates and makes a person better looking, now it saves one money as well.
As a thank you to our dedicated and growing group of online contributors, Friends of Trees wants to offer special discounts for home owners who have yet to sign up to purchase trees.
Upon signing up, enter the [...]
Tags: street trees, yard trees
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 [...]
Tags: canopy, planting, runoff, street trees
A biking geophysicist at Western Washington University is studying the effect street trees have on reducing the amount of harmful particles in the air, reports The Olympian.
In an interview with Friends of Trees, Bernard Housen described how he has found urban street trees to be good monitors of airborne pollutants, because of their ability to [...]
Tags: carbon, I-205, Metro, ODOT, street trees
Partners in Community Forestry 2009
National Arbor Day Foundation Conference: Nov. 10
Speaking to the general session at the National Arbor Day Conference, Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) stressed the importance of urban forestry and implored the attendees to “take it up a notch” in fighting for carbon legislation.
The lifelong Portlander and former city commissioner mentioned the success [...]
Tags: Arbor Day '09, street trees
Circa the 1990s, this video produced by PGE and featuring narration by the great James DePreist, outlines Portland’s street tree history from day one to the creation of Friends of Trees.
Watch our other videos on our Youtube page.
–TS
Tags: canopy, carbon, habitat, planting, runoff, Seed the Future, shade, street trees, video
Let’s face it, city lots are small lots, but that doesn’t mean large trees won’t fit. In fact, it means just the opposite.
The problem with small trees is that the top of the tree (the wide part) is close to the ground. With a large tree, the small part (the trunk) is close to the [...]
Tags: canopy, dogwood, Douglas Fir, maple, shade, street trees, yard trees
In a study of sold homes on the east side of Portland, a new report says street trees add an average of $8,870 to sales prices and reduce time-on-market by almost two days.
The report, which will be published in Landscape and Urban Planning, is the first of its kind to examine the “effect of urban [...]
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