| Upcoming Events
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Portland Fruit Tree Project Summer Fruit Tree Pruning Workshops
Thursday, July 15th
Mississippi Street Fair
Saturday, July 10th
Friends of Trees
Neighborhood Coordinator Training
1st Session:
Saturday, July 10th
2nd Session:
Thursday, July 15th
Ramona Street Fair
Sunday, July 28th
East Portland Expo
Saturday, July 17th &
Sunday, July 18th
East Portland
Sunday Parkways
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Visit Portland's
Trees by Bike
Twilight Heritage Celebration
Saturday, July 24th
Duff Dinners
Saturday, July 31st
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| Visit Portland's Trees by Bike! |
Join us for a pleasant ride through the inner SE neighborhoods of Sellwood and Eastmoreland. We'll ride in the shade of 100+-year-old trees, try out one of Portland's newest neighborhood greenways, cross the Three Creeks Bridge for a a relaxing commune with nature at Tideman Johnson Park, and learn about how the urban forest integrates stormwater management, habitat, and aesthetics to best advantage.
Bring your bike and helmet; we'll do the rest! The pace will be easy.
Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010
Time: 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Place: Meet at the NE corner of Sellwood Park (SE 7th and
Sellwood Blvd.)
Ride Length: ~8 miles and ~2 hours (we'll stop to chat a handful of
times)
Difficulty: Easy to Moderate (there are a few hills in there)
Course: A combination of neighborhood streets, multi-use path, bike lanes, and a neighborhood
greenway (a.k.a. bike boulevard)
To register online Click Here!
To register by phone or email:
Contact Autumn Montegna at 503-701-7622 or autumn.montegna@portlandoregon.gov
Submitted By
Jennifer Karps, Grey-to-Green Canopy Coordinator
Bureau of Environmental Services
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Tree-mendous Volunteers | |
Erika Reiber measures the DBH of Heritage Tree 202, an Apache pine (Pinus engelmannii) in the Overlook Neighborhood. Photo Courtesy of Angie DiSalvo |
A huge thank you goes to Neighborhood Tree Stewards and volunteers Van Bogner, Alan Borrud, Bryan Burch, Julia Harris, Tim McGuire, Jason Messer, Keturah Pennington, Erika Reiber, and Douglas Trotter for inspecting Heritage Trees. After completing a training workshop, volunteers signed up for routes and visited 100 trees throughout Portland. In addition to conducting a visual inspection, volunteers adjusted plaques, contacted property owners, took photographs, measured trees, and reported problems. The inspection data will be used to create work lists for Urban Forestry staff, and up-to-date measurements will be posted on the Heritage Tree website. This was the first time volunteers completed such a task and due to its overwhelming success, Urban Forestry will host this opportunity annually.
Angie DiSalvo, Botanic Specialist II
Portland Parks & Recreation / City Nature / Urban Forestry |
| Become a Friends of Trees Neighborhood Coordinator |
Planting trees in your yard or planting strip will help improve the quality of life for you and your neighbors for generations to come. Friends of Trees is already planning for the 2010-2011 planting season, but we need your help! In order to surpass last year's record season and attain our goal of planting 4,725 low-cost street and yard trees in Portland next year, we need neighborhood coordinators who can volunteer their time to help organize these neighborhood plantings. We still need a neighborhood coordinator, or co-coordinators, for many Portland neighborhoods. Click here to learn more!
First Session: This session is required for all prospective neighborhood coordinators. It is intended to give a broad introduction to Friends of Trees and the Neighborhood Trees program, as well as information about the neighborhood coordinator's roles, responsibilities and strategies needed to get the job done.
Saturday, July 10, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon at PCC Cascade Campus (Terrell Hall - Room 122) at 705 N Killingsworth in Portland.
Second Session: Thursday, July 15, 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kaiser Permanente Town Hall - 3704 N Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR. This session is for Portland Neighborhoods Coordinators only.
Photo and Article Submitted By
Jessie Batty and Andy Meeks, Urban Forest Education Specialist
Portland Parks & Recreation /City Nature |
| Get Involved in the
Portland Fruit Tree Project (PFTP)
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Want to learn Summer Pruning for fruit trees? Come out to our hands-on workshop!
In this hands-on workshops, you will learn the basics of summer pruning in order to increase the health and quality of your harvest. This fun workshops will be an opportunity to gain a basic understanding of the different types of pruning cuts and when these cuts should be used.
Summer Pruning (hands-on workshop)
Thursday July 15th 2010. 5:30pm - 8:30pm
We're excited to have Glen Andresen as our instructor for this workshop. Since 1994, Glen Andresen has been Metro's natural gardening educator. The program offers presentations and information on how to have healthy yards and gardens without the use of pesticides. Glen has been a Master Gardener since 1991. His home garden includes about 40 fruit trees; a row each of raspberries, Marionberries and strawberries; plus blueberries, grapes, 15 raised vegetable beds, and honey bee colonies-all on a city lot that measures just 60 feet x 100 feet. Glen has tended a 3/4-acre organic garden at a retreat center near Eagle Creek in Clackamas County since 1985. He is the host of the 1-hour edible gardening show, "The Dirt Bag," heard the second Wednesday of each month at 11:00 a.m. on community radio station KBOO, at 90.7 FM in Portland. He also writes "Ground View," a monthly gardening column for The Portland Alliance newspaper. Glen is an avid hobbyist beekeeper who keeps approximately 30 colonies of bees - give or take a swarm or bear attack. He has degrees in economics and music but still would rather play in the dirt.
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Pre-registration is required.
This workshop is free of charge for tree owners who have registered fruit trees with us. Otherwise, the class fee is a sliding scale from $10-25. In addition, a limited amount of scholarships / work-trade opportunities are available.This workshop will be hosted by one of our registered tree owners. Exact location details will be provided after you sign up.
Register here for the July 15th Workshop
Submitted By
Bob Hatton, Harvest & Stewardship Coordinator
Portland Fruit Tree Project |
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Fun With Micro-Injectors |
Doug Lovelace inoculating an elm tree. |
When: Saturday July 10, 6:00 a.m & 8:00 a.m.
Where: Laurelhurst TBD
Save Our Laurelhurst Elms (SOLE) will be inoculating approximately 40 elm trees against the dreaded Dutch elm disease (DED). We're in need of a few more volunteers to help with the process on Saturday morning. You'll get a quick primer on the process followed by a real hands-on experience applying the fungicide that helps protect these great old trees from DED. We should be able to get the project done in two or three hours but any time you can spare will be greatly appreciated.
This is a great opportunity to put your tree steward cred to work saving some of Portland's largest old trees.
Please contact Doug Lovelace at
doug@statestore.com or call 916-207-4277
Submitted By
Doug Lovelace
Laurelhurst Neighborhood Tree Steward
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| Lone Fir Cemetery Twilight Heritage Celebration | |
Portland Commissioner Nick Fish and Metro Council President David Bragdon invite you to enjoy an evening at Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery. Bring a picnic and blanket and enjoy this 30-acre arboretum in the heart of Southeast Portland while learning about 
the City of Portland's Urban Forestry program. Visit the three heritage trees being dedicated: the lone Douglas fir for which the cemetery was named, the General Joseph Lane maple and a 100-foot-tall incense cedar. Metro Council President David Bragdon invites you to stay and enjoy featured artists from the Lone Fir Cemetery CD 'Dearly Departed' and then watch the screening of the documentary 'Come Together Home' by Ivy Lin. Learn about deceased Chinese settlers and rail workers who were interred and later disinterred at Lone Fir and the plans for a memorial park on the sacred site known as Block 14. Enter the cemetery on Southeast 26th Avenue between Stark and Morrison streets. Free. Hosted by Metro, City of Portland, Friends of Lone Fir and the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
For more information visit Metro's Website at
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| Duff Dinners |
 Sit with us under the stars as we explore the living history and the ours-to-shape future of our forests. The evening will begin in a clearing in Hyla Woods with refreshments and a reading from Kristin Kaye's novel-in-progress To Catch What Falls. Then, the group will embark on a light walk to witness relics of logging past and examples of a sustainable forest in-the-making with conservation foresters Peter and Pam Hayes. Duff diners will return to the cabin to enjoy Blake Van Roekel's fantastic forest and farm-inspired four-course meal with wine, and then partake in inspired discussion into the night led by Matthew Stadler. Tickets are $85 and include beer, wine and a unique softcover edition of To Catch What Falls (part 1), a work-in-progress, printed and bound for the dinner by Publication Studio. Seats are limited. Please make your reservation by July 26, 2010. For information visit duffdinners.com
Submitted By
Kristin Kaye
Author & Concordia Neighborhood Tree Steward |
| Bill Naito Community Trees Award
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The Urban Forestry Commission created this annual award in honor of the builder and community leader who did so much to beautify Portland with trees. Bill Naito rarely missed an Urban Forestry Commission meeting, which he founded in 1974 and chaired until his death. No one in Portland had been more tenacious than Bill at encouraging the planting of trees. Through his humor, persistence, and imaginative approach to projects, he inspired many individuals to recognize the beauty trees bring to our city. The Bill Naito Community Trees Award is presented to individuals, organizations or projects that have continued Bill's work and reflect his dedication. We encourage you to nominate a person or a group who has made a significant contribution to Portland's Urban Forest. Nominations will be accepted starting Thursday, July 15th. For more information visit www.portlandonline.com/parks/.
Submitted By
Autumn Montegna, Urban Forest Outreach Specialist
Portland Parks & Recreation / City Nature |
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