By Katie Neis We did it! Four Vancouver plantings scheduled this season, four Vancouver plantings accomplished! And they kept getting better and better. During the 2011-12 planting season, we added 328 new trees to homes and planting strips. All of the plantings had a delicious potluck lunch complete with desserts, fabulous soups, and some of [...]
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Vancouver City Councilmember Jeanne Stewart joined homeowners and other Friends of Trees volunteers to plant 122 trees in a dozen Vancouver neighborhoods on Saturday, Feb. 25. The planting began at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 426 East Plain Blvd, with hot drinks and breakfast treats at 8:45 am followed by a rally at 9:00 am. Saturday’s [...]
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By Jessica Antoine With fall around the corner, learn proper pruning and tree care at a free TreeTalk workshop in Vancouver on September 22, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The workshop begins at the the corner of McGillivray Boulevard and Briarwood Drive in the Cascade Highlands neighborhood. Participants will learn how to prune young street [...]
By Jessica Antoine The City of Vancouver is looking for an AmeriCorps member to serve as Neighborhood Tree Coordinator (NTC) from September 1, 2011 to July 31, 2012. The NTC will work with Vancouver Urban Forestry and its organizational partner Friends of Trees to expand outreach efforts in targeted neighborhoods, to coordinate tree-planting projects in [...]
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