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
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
The Statesman Journal in Salem got national attention last week after a man reportedly used explosives to remove a tree.
Besides charges of disorderly conduct, possession of illegal fireworks and unlawful manufacture of a destructive device, Zachary Leone, 19, will likely face additional charges, as a search warrant has been issued for his home, according to [...]
Tags: Salem, yard 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
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
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
Thanks to watchful neighbors and one coincidental Google mapping vehicle, three people have been charged with illegally removing trees in Vancouver, Canada.
As seen on the Google map image from the property at 6060 Olympic St., a total of 23 cedar cypress and evergreen trees were cut down along a fence line.
Only two tree removals were [...]
Tags: 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
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
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
Nothing beats the oh-so wonderful, ‘Y1.’ For the Bureau of Environmental Services’ crew canvassing Portland’s neighborhoods, this is the golden codename that gets a street tree in the ground.
As part of Portland’s Grey to Green Initiative with Friends of Trees, these city employees are in their first full-time season of detailed information gathering and door-to-door [...]
Tags: BES, G2G, oak, planting, street trees, tulip, yard trees