Portland Timbers Help Plant Trees in NE Portland Feb. 11

Friends of Trees’ annual tree planting in the Boise, Eliot, Humboldt, and King neighborhoods this Saturday will add many shades of green to NE Portland. Joining Friends of Trees volunteers to plant hundreds of trees will be Portland Timbers Alumni Ambassadors Scot Thompson and Mick Hoban, Timbers mascot Timber Joey, and a crew of Timbers Army planters.

Billboards created by Amy Ruppel for Friends of Trees’ Plant It Portland! billboard campaign will be displayed at the office during the potluck lunch after the planting.

The Feb. 11 planting is sponsored by the Portland Timbers as part of a three-year partnership initiated last year, when the team chose Friends of Trees along with Big Brothers Big Sisters and Portland YouthBuilders as Community Pillar Partners in its “Stand Together” campaign.

The Plant It Portland! campaign, in partnership with Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, highlights four key benefits that “grow” on trees: better health, energy conservation, a safer community—and even money.