Mayor Adams helps kick off Plant It Portland!

On December 4, Mayor Sam Adams joined Friends of Trees to officially launch our Plant It Portland! campaign to plant 16,000 trees in Portland planting strips during the next three years. Watch the video above by Galaxy Sailor and KGW’s news story below.

“We don’t have the kind of tree canopy that we could have,” Mayor Adams said. “With 70 percent of our energy coming from fossil fuels, trees are a huge benefit to reducing carbon emissions.”

Trees also reduce stormwater runoff and pollution in our rivers, which is why Plant It Portland! is part of Portland Bureau of Environmental Service’s Grey to Green Initiative.

It’s also fun! Find out for yourself: Follow the colorful instructions to order a tree for your planting strip or yard.

All in all, volunteers planted 135 street and yard trees in the Buckman, Richmond and Hosford-Abernethy neighborhoods.

–TR