By Jeff Kisseloff, FOT Crew Leader Continued from Part I yesterday The training session was a snap. Afterward, they asked us to sign up for at least four sessions, so I put my name down for four, then four more and four more, and four more. My wife hasn’t seen me on a Saturday morning [...]
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By Jeff Kisseloff, FOT Crew Leader People can say being a crew leader is all about planting trees and doing something good for the city and the environment, but the truth is it’s really about one thing: the orange vest. The day you get to put on the orange vest your life changes. Suddenly people [...]
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The Student Becomes the Teacher By Jenny Bedell-Stiles Last Saturday marked the final day of another Friends of Trees record-breaking planting season—and what a season it was! Just over 5,200 street and yard trees were planted in the Neighborhood Trees program and 37,300 native trees and shrubs planted through the Green Space Initiative. That’s an [...]
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By Andy Meeks Friends of Trees planted more than 5,000 large street trees this season in Portland and Vancouver with the help of thousands of volunteers. And we need your help to continue their good work! Summer Inspector volunteers visit every one of the newly-planted trees the first summer after planting. Since each Summer Inspector [...]
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