Help your neighbors and their trees. Be a Neighborhood Tree Steward!

Do you know a neighbor who people can go to for advice about trees? Want to be a resource and leader for your neighborhood?

Portland Parks & Recreation’s seven-class course can make you a Neighborhood Tree Steward! The course covers tree biology, identification, planting, pruning, pathology, soils, economic benefits of trees, Portland’s rules and regulations, and how you can use your newly gained knowledge help your neighborhood’s urban forest.

Meeting times are Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. from September 21 through October 23. The course costs $75, with a 25% discount available if two or more people from one neighborhood register together.

To register, call 503-823-2525 and ask to sign up for course #328995. For information about discounts or scholarships, contact Autumn Montegna at [email protected] or 503-701-7622.

You can also help by working with others to identify tree-deficient areas in your neighborhood. The Concordia Tree Team is leading the first of Portland’s neighborhood tree inventories and will create a neighborhood stewardship plan as part of the process. Concordia’s street tree inventory workshops are on August 21, September 11, and October 9 from 8:30 am to noon.

This Saturday’s workshop will be held at the Kennedy School Community Room (5736 NE 33rd).  You can register for this workshop HERE or contact Angie DiSalvo at [email protected].  Please visit www.portlandonline.com/parks/treeinventory to learn more about this important program.

The inventory project is supported by a grant from the East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District.

–TR