Today was the kickoff of tree planting season for the Northwest, and Friends of Trees was out in force taking full advantage of the rain-free day. Here is the press release for the Plant It Portland campaign:
Friends of Trees and Portland Mayor Sam Adams will plant the first
official street trees of the season this Saturday as part of the nonprofit’s “Plant It Portland!”
campaign.
Friends of Trees launched its three-year Plant It Portland! campaign earlier this fall as part of
Portland’s Grey to Green Initiative. The campaign is the most ambitious street tree planting
campaign in Portland to date and aims to plant a total of 16,000 street trees throughout East
Portland neighborhoods over the next three years.
Friends of Trees’ bicycling crew will also be in full force, hauling all the trees and tools by
bike from the staging area to nearby homes for the Buckman, Hosford-Abernethy and
Richmond neighborhood planting. The bicycling crews are carbon negative—they plant trees
to absorb carbon, and the trees will reach their sites without any carbon emissions.
I was fortunate enough to get to film for the day. Here is the snippet for the mayors office from todays planting.
Mayor Sam Adams planting for Friends of Trees from Galaxy Sailor on Vimeo.
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