By Andrew Land Our newest group of Neighborhood Trees crew leaders was trained this past weekend at Moreland Presbyterian Church in Sellwood-Moreland. We were very lucky because it was a gorgeous day and things seemed to be going our way. We started with a well-attended training, followed that with a tasty lunch, and finished up [...]

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By Andrew Land This past Saturday morning, 37 future Green Space Initiative (GSI) crew leaders gathered around free Starbucks coffee and Voodoo doughnuts at the Audubon Society of Portland for Friends of Trees’ annual crew leader training. It’s a truly beautiful place, well worth a visit if you haven’t already been. The new crew leaders started the day [...]

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By Jesse Batty Saturday morning, November 6, was a great day of knowledge, trees, good food, and good people at Friends of Trees’ Neighborhood Trees Crew Leader Training in Vancouver. In the morning, 27 volunteers became official Friends of Trees crew leaders. They will be an integral part of our effort to plant 5,000 trees [...]

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You’ve probably seen him on a Saturday morning in a bright orange vest with a Friends of Trees logo on the back. Or on wet days, in a yellow slicker. You may have even planted on his crew. Now Attorney General John Kroger has appointed Friends of Trees’ decade-long crew leader and former board member [...]

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