https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/home daily 1.0 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1555971542363-KG3KZT6A7PJS63JZ7Z3G/IMG_5045.JPG Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/t/61300c7e57b3a310ddf18098/1630538858200/ Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1633551486848-HZE379TL68SUWR76RLB2/IMG_5025.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624201942704-QSM3TBV8EAYRR732SCTQ/Tilia.jpg Home - These silver lindens (Tilia tomentosa) in Columbia Park are examples of a large-form tree that, if allowed to reach its full potential, casts sorely needed summer shade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624202742279-7MIJ9BVX0S6CP2LOV3YW/AmericanElm.jpg Home - Surviving American elms on this street in north Portland remind us how much cooler it is in the shade of tall, wide trees during our increasingly hot summers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624202826528-YE1RJDKQQH66YJAT6UM1/WesternRedcedar.jpg Home - Will this Western red-cedar survive the demolition of the old house it shares a lot with should the replacement be a larger home, a duplex, or triplex? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624203171480-0OEZ8FCJ31G7AG161QNO/SidewalkBumpout.jpg Home - Flexible rules on sidewalks are helping homeowners preserve large trees by allowing a bit more room for large, mature roots—developers take note: this can be done! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624203477589-O0ZDKSOZP76AKT6YL94D/Stones.jpg Home - This strip, six feet wide and with no overhead powerlines could support a tree reaching over 50’ tall and shading pedestrians and cars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624203586633-V7RBQBUJY2OARBLJIOME/Treeless.jpg Home - Many Portland residents do not plant trees from fear of the costs to homeowners associated with maintaining them when they mature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624203710512-IIDE9TIDT7ZUYJZ8970L/ChinaFir.jpg Home - Current code provides no special protections for large but under 36-inch-diameter specimens of unusual species like this China fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) on private property. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624203832132-0CPIG2IPMXIW8APPHD9U/Walnut.jpg Home - What fate awaits this enormous black walnut (Juglans nigra) when the small house it shares a lot with is torn down to make way for duplexes and triplexes? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624203981380-CE4N3VK9R9WKUUQPXSQE/Victorian.jpg Home Lots such as this are prime targets for developers hoping to cash in on denser housing rules that allow them to build multiple housing units in formerly single-family neighborhoods, with trees like these European beeches receiving little protection against removal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624204123319-U4D2C3R77YPIEE8MO2L1/It%2BCan%2BBe%2BDone%2BFernhill%2BPark.jpg Home - Large spruce as two houses are built where a ranch house once stood on NE 37th next to Fernhill Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624204375824-QYYXB7S7HITCGFRPST3L/Japanese%2Bmaple.jpg Home - 10 by 15 feet – bigger than the minimum required for multi-unit housing. Spaces like this will end up holding a single small tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624204595575-2GR6U9U3M5MBB6YLKZZ6/Narrow%2Bseparations.jpg Home - Narrow separations between newly built single-family row homes near NE Killingsworth are too small to grow a tree of any size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624204718698-WZ7Z5UUQVXJWSRAB4BQC/Giant%2BSequoia.jpg Home Trees on properties like these in NE Cully are ripe targets for builders of multi-unit housing in former single-family-zones. When trees like the giant sequoia here go, so go the health and environmental benefits they provide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624204830405-TAE6GYXG8XA8WWLAU1QE/Silver%2BMaple.jpg Home - Building around a preserved silver maple to ensure it has adequate space, thus creating a precious amenity for residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624204914519-Y5XO445TEJENT3OE7A5U/impermeable%2Bsetback%2Bmultiplex.jpg Home - This setback between new multiplex homes in Boise-Elliot precludes room for a tree; the impermeable surface will not help manage the more intense rain events climate scientists predict. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624205009750-3CYQXU5J3AZLHWCDZX3E/front%2Byards%2BN%2BMichigan.jpg Home - The front yards of these newer homes allow for only one tiny tree that, if alive in 50 years, will still be too short to shade buildings or streets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624205069675-U5O68J0VGFH84QGV8PI6/Expanded%2Bcurb%2Bstrip.jpg Home - An unusual but happy occurence: the growing space for this tree in a narrow curb strip expanded when the original sidewalk was replaced during construction of a new house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624205196934-BF7T3O6ZJLZTGXBJXUYV/Redwood%2Bpop%2Bout%2Bsidewalk.jpg Home - A coast redwood on private property is helped by a pop-out sidewalk, but over time the tree will need more space to thrive. Let’s design with a tree’s future in mind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624821417718-BK98170ZTNWV5CSB508O/Tulip+tree+before.jpg Home The huge tulip tree providing southside house shade at NE 22nd and Knott was intact when this home was for sale in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624821445683-327DG3WMIJKZC5R6HOV9/Tulip+tree+after+tree+removal.jpg Home Post-sale, in spring 2021, the tulip tree was approved for removal due to proximity to the structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1768354885205-M3UEOGM4VY2BUT7OOC1V/Tilia.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost These silver lindens (Tilia tomentosa) in Columbia Park are examples of a large-form tree that, if allowed to reach its full potential, casts sorely needed summer shade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624202742279-7MIJ9BVX0S6CP2LOV3YW/AmericanElm.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost Surviving American elms on this street in north Portland remind us how much cooler it is in the shade of tall, wide trees during our increasingly hot summers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624202826528-YE1RJDKQQH66YJAT6UM1/WesternRedcedar.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost Will this Western red-cedar survive the demolition of the old house it shares a lot with should the replacement be a larger home, a duplex, or triplex? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624203171480-0OEZ8FCJ31G7AG161QNO/SidewalkBumpout.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost Flexible rules on sidewalks are helping homeowners preserve large trees by allowing a bit more room for large, mature roots—developers take note: this can be done! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624203477589-O0ZDKSOZP76AKT6YL94D/Stones.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost This strip, six feet wide and with no overhead powerlines could support a tree reaching over 50’ tall and shading pedestrians and cars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624203586633-V7RBQBUJY2OARBLJIOME/Treeless.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost Many Portland residents do not plant trees from fear of the costs to homeowners associated with maintaining them when they mature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624204830405-TAE6GYXG8XA8WWLAU1QE/Silver%2BMaple.jpg Home - What's happening on the ground and what's at risk of being lost. Building around a preserved silver maple to ensure it has adequate space, thus creating a precious amenity for residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624203710512-IIDE9TIDT7ZUYJZ8970L/ChinaFir.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost Current code provides no special protections for large but under 36-inch-diameter specimens of unusual species like this China fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) on private property. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624203832132-0CPIG2IPMXIW8APPHD9U/Walnut.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost What fate awaits this enormous black walnut (Juglans nigra) when the small house it shares a lot with is torn down to make way for duplexes and triplexes? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624203981380-CE4N3VK9R9WKUUQPXSQE/Victorian.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost Lots such as this are prime targets for developers hoping to cash in on denser housing rules that allow them to build multiple housing units in formerly single-family neighborhoods, with trees like these European beeches receiving little protection against removal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624204123319-U4D2C3R77YPIEE8MO2L1/It%2BCan%2BBe%2BDone%2BFernhill%2BPark.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost Large spruce as two houses are built where a ranch house once stood on NE 37th next to Fernhill Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624204375824-QYYXB7S7HITCGFRPST3L/Japanese%2Bmaple.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost 10 by 15 feet – bigger than the minimum required for multi-unit housing. Spaces like this will end up holding a single small tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624204595575-2GR6U9U3M5MBB6YLKZZ6/Narrow%2Bseparations.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost Narrow separations between newly built single-family row homes near NE Killingsworth are too small to grow a tree of any size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624204914519-Y5XO445TEJENT3OE7A5U/impermeable%2Bsetback%2Bmultiplex.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost This setback between new multiplex homes in Boise-Elliot precludes room for a tree; the impermeable surface will not help manage the more intense rain events climate scientists predict. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624204718698-WZ7Z5UUQVXJWSRAB4BQC/Giant%2BSequoia.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost Trees on properties like these in NE Cully are ripe targets for builders of multi-unit housing in former single-family-zones. When trees like the giant sequoia here go, so go the health and environmental benefits they provide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624205009750-3CYQXU5J3AZLHWCDZX3E/front%2Byards%2BN%2BMichigan.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost The front yards of these newer homes allow for only one tiny tree that, if alive in 50 years, will still be too short to shade buildings or streets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624205069675-U5O68J0VGFH84QGV8PI6/Expanded%2Bcurb%2Bstrip.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost An unusual but happy occurrence: the growing space for this tree in a narrow curb strip expanded when the original sidewalk was replaced during construction of a new house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624205196934-BF7T3O6ZJLZTGXBJXUYV/Redwood%2Bpop%2Bout%2Bsidewalk.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost A coast redwood on private property is helped by a pop-out sidewalk, but over time the tree will need more space to thrive. Let’s design with a tree’s future in mind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624821417718-BK98170ZTNWV5CSB508O/Tulip+tree+before.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost The huge tulip tree providing southside house shade at NE 22nd and Knott was intact when this home was for sale in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624821445683-327DG3WMIJKZC5R6HOV9/Tulip+tree+after+tree+removal.jpg Home - What's Happening on the Ground and What's at Risk of Being Lost Post-sale, in spring 2021, the tulip tree was approved for removal due to proximity to the structure. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news daily 0.75 2026-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1581807927754-RGE2FLVQ0PA6MAVP3PA0/NorthernRedOakNEPortland.jpg News https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/portland-parks-urban-forestry-is-now-using-a-nifty-efficiency-tool monthly 0.5 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/9008b21c-c7ab-4389-bf35-5e9c07e557ee/Screenshot+%281104%29.png News - Portland Parks’ Urban Forestry Is Now Using a Nifty Efficiency Tool - Make it stand out A screenshot of a TreePlotter Inventory interactive map showing trees in Mt. 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Photos by Ryan Gilpin unless otherwise noted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/acdd9a97-8677-480e-8cbf-c7d92c74ddb9/04a+-+Design.jpg News - Saving Trees During Construction: One Arborist’s Inside View - Make it stand out The incense-cedars' proximity to the northwest corner of the homeowners' foundation, pre-construction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/0f6d8f11-412d-4eb7-8e15-10871c68f0b6/04b+-+Construction.jpg News - Saving Trees During Construction: One Arborist’s Inside View - Make it stand out The fenced off incense-cedars, in back, and the trench for the new foundation. A worker is standing inside the basement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/9150fef1-cfed-48b7-9d6d-4ccc7f1bb429/Screenshot+%28401%29.png News - Saving Trees During Construction: One Arborist’s Inside View - Make it stand out The incense-cedars are trees #59 and 60 in the tree protection plan. The dotted lines show the impossibility of using the tree code's faster, cheaper prescriptive path for this project. Courtesy of Judy Morton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/6a931942-c617-4712-adf7-2e1a66e581f9/Incense+cedar+in+Creston-Kenilworth+Construction+1.jpg News - Saving Trees During Construction: One Arborist’s Inside View - Make it stand out Protective fencing around the trench being dug for the new foundation. 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Note the concentration of calls from the city’s southwest. Map: Portland Parks & Recreation/Urban Forestry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/257599af-67a9-4f22-9698-d5ddc297a87e/Irvington+elm+on+NE+22nd+just+north+of+Knott+that+fell+across+street+and+into+front+facade+of+the+the+facing+house+but+that+they%27d+uprighted+here_+its+whole+root+plate+uplifted.jpg News - Big-Tree Loss in Portland’s Wind and Ice Storms: What’s in Our Control and What’s Not in an Era of Climate Unpredictability? - Make it stand out An uprooted elm on NE 22nd Avenue north of Knott Street whose post-cut stump had been placed upright. The tree fell across the street, grazing a neighbor's porch facade. Its tight planting strip for a tree of its size could have contributed to its vulnerability. Photo: All photos by Trees for Life Oregon unless otherwise noted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/3526a655-8c49-4b29-9fe6-bed854e9fcb2/Healthy+D+firs+on+NE+32nd+Pl+and+Alameda%2C+KR.jpg News - Big-Tree Loss in Portland’s Wind and Ice Storms: What’s in Our Control and What’s Not in an Era of Climate Unpredictability? - Make it stand out Like the great majority of its species citywide, these east-facing private-property Douglas-firs, in Alameda, remained intact during the January storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/7680d66d-6849-49eb-b0b1-662d108c37e2/Healthy+D+firs+on+NE+Dunkley+in+Alameda%2C+north+side+of+street.jpg News - Big-Tree Loss in Portland’s Wind and Ice Storms: What’s in Our Control and What’s Not in an Era of Climate Unpredictability? - Make it stand out South-facing Douglas-firs in a front yard on NE Dunkley Street that held firm in the latest windstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/0f17aabe-f275-46db-9514-c24314be158a/Urban+Forestry+dept+work+after+2024+storm+%281%29.jpg News - Big-Tree Loss in Portland’s Wind and Ice Storms: What’s in Our Control and What’s Not in an Era of Climate Unpredictability? - Make it stand out An Urban Forestry arborist loading massive, cut chunks from an elm tree. Photo: Portland Parks & Recreation https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/big-trees-on-east-portland-school-sites-a-teaching-and-climate-smart-opportunity monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/ec82d775-629d-4f6d-87a4-012291b07019/kids+planting+coast+redwood.jpg News - Getting Big Trees on East Portland School Sites: A Teaching and Climate-Smart Opportunity - Make it stand out Students, guided by Urban Forestry’s Allison O’Sullivan, on right, inspecting a coast redwood root ball before planting. All photos: Trees for Life Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/8289f1a1-2595-4d59-9e49-466d6eba8adc/montessori+shot.png News - Getting Big Trees on East Portland School Sites: A Teaching and Climate-Smart Opportunity - Make it stand out All maps courtesy of Urban Forestry’s Learning Landscapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/b8ff37fe-eeda-48fc-96d3-93cacc5bafdb/SE+148th%2C+looking+south%2C+by+Bruce.JPG News - Getting Big Trees on East Portland School Sites: A Teaching and Climate-Smart Opportunity - Make it stand out The absence of street trees on SE 148th, looking south to Powell Butte. The school’s campus is on right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/3696288f-bc08-42be-9dd7-6617465666d5/Screenshot+%28265%29.png News - Getting Big Trees on East Portland School Sites: A Teaching and Climate-Smart Opportunity - Make it stand out The current placement of trees to be planted next school year along the SE 148th boundary of the school and at the southern tip of the field. The final plan will work around the future "Tiny Forest," which is not a Learning Landscapes project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/a89a4bd1-afd0-4ec7-b270-deebab963efe/kids+planting+ponderosa+pine+w+volunteer.jpg News - Getting Big Trees on East Portland School Sites: A Teaching and Climate-Smart Opportunity - Make it stand out A volunteer, on right, helping students plant a ponderosa pine on the northwest part of the school grounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/baba1de1-2faf-493f-9ba2-bce71f6b181b/Marc+and+megaphone.jpg News - Getting Big Trees on East Portland School Sites: A Teaching and Climate-Smart Opportunity - Make it stand out Marc Boucher-Colbert briefing students on the morning planting plan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/eade6efb-d4a6-4660-bbdc-24387d70779a/the+school%2C+looking+south%2C+taken+by+KR+in+Sept+2023.jpg News - Getting Big Trees on East Portland School Sites: A Teaching and Climate-Smart Opportunity - Make it stand out Treeless SE 148th Avenue is to the left of the school fence. New shade trees will fill in the spaces between several Norway maples, shown here. When planted next school year, the trees along the distant south edge of the field will complement the view up to Powell Butte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/e3749879-aefe-4505-9c72-90f496331f8f/larger+Nyssa+photo.jpg News - Getting Big Trees on East Portland School Sites: A Teaching and Climate-Smart Opportunity - Make it stand out The fall color of black tupelo, Nyssa sylvatica, above, and of California black oak, Quercus kelloggi, below. 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This and the next visual are courtesy of Geoffrey Donovan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/aee3d3ec-5170-4819-a6a8-b3af42f1dbed/As+Friends+of+Trees-planted+trees+got+bigger+and+older%2C+they+were+associated+with+less+mortality.+This+is+why+it%27s+so+important+we+actively+preserve+and+maintain+large-at-maturity+trees..png News - Living Near Trees Has Positive, Measurable Health Impacts - Make it stand out As Friends of Trees-planted trees got bigger and older, they were associated with less mortality. This is why it's so important we actively preserve and maintain large-at-maturity trees. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/odots-tree-destruction-along-powell-boulevard monthly 0.5 2023-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/d7678965-756d-41b0-b799-ec7d702f924d/Lilly+Hankins+and+what%27s+left+of+tree+she+and+daughter+sheletered+under+after+car+accident.jpg News - ODOT’s Tree Destruction Along Powell Boulevard - Make it stand out Lilly Hankins pointing to what's left of the tree she sheltered under after her car accident. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/oregon-receives-unprecedented-influx-of-federal-funds-to-increase-canopy-equity monthly 0.5 2023-09-26 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/the-3-30-300-rule-for-trees-and-human-health monthly 0.5 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/47ab0a6f-de41-440e-9fbb-748fd04b1389/New+cropped+for+news.png News - The 3-30-300 Rule for Trees and Human Health - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/timeline-set-for-urban-forest-management-update-and-community-input-0DpoM monthly 0.5 2023-09-12 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/what-portlands-doing-to-plant-climate-resilient-trees-T9A9C monthly 0.5 2023-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/e6db0686-6ba3-487b-af57-bec012beca15/Incense+Cedar+New.png News - What Portland’s Doing to Plant Climate-Resilient Trees - Make it stand out Incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens). Photo by John Ruter, University of Georgia, via Bugwood.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/21b3ebd9-2744-494d-9f09-63136b5d06bc/strawberry+tree.jpg News - What Portland’s Doing to Plant Climate-Resilient Trees - Make it stand out Strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/3db1b1ca-e731-45ba-b53c-7b0569d64eb5/Young+live+Oaks.jpg News - What Portland’s Doing to Plant Climate-Resilient Trees - Make it stand out Young coast live oak trees (Quercus agrifolia). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/801a411b-44bc-49ef-bf20-b8f5399a962d/Silver+leaf+Oak.jpg News - What Portland’s Doing to Plant Climate-Resilient Trees Silverleaf oak (Quercus hypoleucoides). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/a883cba6-f93f-489b-be61-6db0d0e4dd41/Cupressus_bakeri_foliage_and_cones1.jpg News - What Portland’s Doing to Plant Climate-Resilient Trees - Make it stand out Baker cypress (Cupressus bakeri). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/8ebb1227-388d-44c6-8e67-015779c8fe85/2021-08-04_14_04_58_Natchez_Crape_Myrtle_flowers_along_Tranquility_Court_in_the_Franklin_Farm_section_of_Oak_Hill%2C_Fairfax_County%2C_Virginia.jpg News - What Portland’s Doing to Plant Climate-Resilient Trees - Make it stand out Crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia 'Natchez'). https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/new-report-on-82nd-avenue-canopy-obstacles-and-solutions-w1cd1 monthly 0.5 2023-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/99970311-8463-4cf1-a6e2-8b5d917bc192/Street+Tree+Opportunities+.png News - New Report on 82nd Avenue Canopy Obstacles and Solutions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/2d6cf367-3c34-4de7-8966-7ff5049206ee/Parking+lot+cropped.png News - New Report on 82nd Avenue Canopy Obstacles and Solutions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/private-properties-hold-the-most-space-for-new-canopy-how-might-portland-act-on-that monthly 0.5 2023-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/82580be4-9289-492c-9aa3-9058ea30f42d/Pic+one+feature+redo.jpg News - Private Properties Hold the Most Space for New Canopy: How Might Portland Act on That? - Make it stand out The European hornbeam planted in an extension built into one of the hotel’s parking spaces. All photos by Catherine Mushel for Trees for Life Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/41235b8a-8e50-42e6-87a4-78624ae368a1/pic+2+feature+redo.jpg News - Private Properties Hold the Most Space for New Canopy: How Might Portland Act on That? - Make it stand out BES aligned this strawberry tree with the parking space line to prevent damage from parked cars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/c74465a1-94d1-47c8-ac53-ab3fd17927c1/pic+3.jpg News - Private Properties Hold the Most Space for New Canopy: How Might Portland Act on That? - Make it stand out The wheel stops BES provided will protect newly planted trees from vehicle damage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/da13fb98-c6f0-4ec2-9d9a-f57f4e837d68/pic+4.jpg News - Private Properties Hold the Most Space for New Canopy: How Might Portland Act on That? - Make it stand out A climate-resilient crape myrtle planted in the Unicorn Inn parking lot. Crape myrtles are beautiful bloomers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/99070320-cc03-4480-9423-22ba031e267b/pic+5.jpg News - Private Properties Hold the Most Space for New Canopy: How Might Portland Act on That? - Make it stand out Years ago the developer of this private commercial site at NE Broadway and 42nd preserved space for this capacious pine that shades sidewalk and parked cars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/007353e0-744c-4190-bb26-41d79bf4fa0c/pic+6.png News - Private Properties Hold the Most Space for New Canopy: How Might Portland Act on That? - Make it stand out The Agape Village sited at Portland Central Church of the Nazarene. Photo: From agapevillagepdx.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/cfb5e47f-bc87-4385-aa55-8c02a260ca5a/pic+7.jpg News - Private Properties Hold the Most Space for New Canopy: How Might Portland Act on That? BES's Matt Krueger next to newly planted trees along the church's western border, next to I-205. In foreground is an incense cedar. Next to him is a hole that will receive an oak called Quercus greggii 'La Siberia,' and behind him is the Oregon native Pinus ponderosa var. benthamiana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/b1e4806c-3e05-4a0a-b6e2-c42b8ebc746c/pic+8.jpg News - Private Properties Hold the Most Space for New Canopy: How Might Portland Act on That? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/public-comments-on-pcefs-equitable-tree-canopy-program-due-march-2 monthly 0.5 2023-02-17 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/trees-literally-save-lives-and-the-bigger-the-trees-the-better monthly 0.5 2022-11-28 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/pbot-and-urban-forestry-team-up-to-pilot-new-curb-bump-outs monthly 0.5 2022-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/2d0b213e-6d1f-44c0-9164-d2b6f8bf3d0a/hawthorn+for+inside+article.png News - PBOT and Urban Forestry Team Up to Pilot New Curb Bump-outs - Make it stand out An already existing PBOT/BES one-off installation on SE Hawthorne and 46th Avenue, designed without intent to replicate. 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Photo by TFLO. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/st-johns-tree-policy-walk-highlights-emerald-ash-borers-threat-to-canopy monthly 0.5 2022-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/4033232b-e47b-4c7b-bb10-8c7ded2d04b4/20221015_095837.jpg News - St. Johns Tree Policy Walk Highlights Emerald Ash Borer’s Threat to Canopy Gersbach points out golden desert ash trees on N. Charleston St., near Lombard St. All photos by Kyna Rubin, TFLO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/bf76a64b-fed5-43d8-9407-d824db14f8fa/20221015_113815.jpg News - St. Johns Tree Policy Walk Highlights Emerald Ash Borer’s Threat to Canopy - Make it stand out Large green ash at the corner of N. Leonard St. and N. 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Hudson St. These ashes could all be dead in the next five years. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/o2hkq6852iwket7qyhavbq1etdds0k monthly 0.5 2022-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/4c6bd84e-2f93-46dc-a80e-1830495979ca/New+Narrow+Planting+Strips+Less+Than+3ft+%26+Equity+Index1024_1.jpg News - Loss of Narrow Planting Strip Trees Will Add to Canopy Decline - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/call-for-action-on-proposed-pcef-changes monthly 0.5 2022-10-09 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/tree-policy-walk-along-ne-102nd-avenue-spotlights-canopy-challenges monthly 0.5 2022-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/d04543f9-a448-4347-8207-58c1d28a86f4/20220924_092622.jpg News - Tree Policy Walk Along NE 102nd Avenue Spotlights Canopy Challenges Bruce Nelson points out a gingko in a tree well. 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New Research Shows East Portland is Hot Spot for Canopy Loss - Make it stand out Grapic credit Vivek Shandas https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/cooling-vulnerable-residents monthly 0.5 2021-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/744a5f89-9561-4040-bfba-83d46a81e9c1/power%2Bpoint%2Bslide.jpg News - Cooling Vulnerable Residents through Better Building/Tree/Street Design - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/trees-and-bus-stops monthly 0.5 2021-12-13 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/82nd-avenue-trees monthly 0.5 2021-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1b355bee-10b6-4dc2-9ca1-57e61c22a15e/McDaniel+HS+new+construction+no+street+trees.jpg News - Sparse Canopy on 82nd Avenue: - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/ebb4cc8e-54e3-4a47-8e34-e954fb19483d/chain+to+tree+on+82nd+Avenue.jpg News - Sparse Canopy on 82nd Avenue: - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/space-for-trees-at-risk-update monthly 0.5 2021-10-28 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/act-now-to-save-trees-at-international-grove-in-ne-portland monthly 0.5 2021-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1632866322610-UECYH7PX05T9E6TKQLZC/Cork+oak+flanked+by+holly+oaks+-+International+Grove+2020+3-19+%284%29.jpg News - Act Now to Save Trees at the International Grove in NE Portland - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/insiders-view-of-urban-forestry-commission-meeting monthly 0.5 2021-09-07 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/large-trees-a-must-for-combatting-intense-heat monthly 0.5 2021-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1625525593663-2M4BMWRWG2PSKHEWNL6E/Elliott+elms+-+Ladds+Addition+040+%281%29.JPG News - Large Trees a Must for Combatting Intense Heat - Make it stand out American elms (Ulmus americana) line a street in the Ladds Addition neighborhood. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/books-about-trees-inspire-us-to-protect-them monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/keeping-rare-trees monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1624205782677-1P0ITP8OBO6VRFQZE85V/IMG_0724.JPG News - Keeping Rare Trees Like the China-fir Helps Keep Portland Weird - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/portland-city-council-approves-work-scope monthly 0.5 2021-06-13 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/tree-preservation-transfer-of-development-rights-webinar monthly 0.5 2021-05-14 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/planting-for-climate-change monthly 0.5 2021-05-14 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/news/portland-water-bureaus-proposed-rule-threatens-street-trees monthly 0.5 2021-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1618090889806-SM87WQVOU0TDI5X2RGRF/by+Doug+Klotz%2C+Division+and+28th%2C+no+trees%2C+see+Eli+1-12-21+email.jpeg News - 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Cully’s Khunamokwst Park, summer 2020. Photo: Mark Bello https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1563734783120-KTEM8RS4GNY26LIVYFFW/K+Park+bucket+giveaway%2C+July+14%2C+2019.JPG Campaign 1 A happy bucket taker at Cully’s Khunamokwst Park, summer 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1560725718429-BR2FMV3I4CXAXRCAC561/IMG_5381.JPG Campaign 1 The buckets we’re giving away come pre-drilled. Or if you have a 5-gallon bucket already, drill three 3/16-inch holes on three sides near the bottom of the bucket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1560997747167-M1AVZ50IAL1VCMXQ07CU/By+Jim+Gersbach%2C+Littleleaf+lindens%2C+Ladd%27s+Addition.JPG Campaign 1 Littleleaf lindens in Ladd’s Addition. Trees like these from climates with rainier summers benefit from extra water in our dry months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1560725802286-UUJDQAJXOY7UVBXHK52T/IMG_5384.JPG Campaign 1 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/contact daily 0.75 2020-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1558582148071-D9GLD86DQ6USYZAM4MM9/IMG_5178.JPG Contact https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/about daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1561578269732-K5QFUSQE8YKKD85MVNE9/IMG_5191.jpg About Us https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/tree-watering-tips daily 0.75 2023-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1559515347941-AOPCJSC1LBAXXLSCJR8Q/IMG_5185.JPG Tree Watering Tips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1597099286546-D91N0UDCTYHN9MH7C381/Cercidiphyllum+water+stressed+-+N.+MLK+Jr.+Blvd+%281%29.jpg Tree Watering Tips Katsura trees (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) under drought stress in Oregon. They will often lose their leaves a month or more earlier than they should, weakening the tree and depriving you of shade. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/links daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1563316527573-J0UA38QAO2CIFY1GD3AJ/Screen+Shot+2019-07-16+at+3.34.28+PM.png Links https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/our-team-1 daily 0.75 2025-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1559513937058-1XYIGLALPN2NTQTD2U1K/IMG_5178.JPG Our Team https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/treefriendly-developers daily 0.75 2022-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1581975986765-NCLSQ6O59I06WKVR0U4Y/Save_the_giants_house_light.jpg Tree-Friendly Developers - Ethan Beck of Ethan Beck Homes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1579114006464-Z2F3N49X0LW3AHA65RSB/CullyGrovePreservedTree.JPG Tree-Friendly Developers - Eli Spevak of Orange Splot LLC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1576803091797-G1Z47RPUT8HRBPBJF0GP/New+New+Crusher+Courtyard.JPG Tree-Friendly Developers - Westin Glass of Guerrilla Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1576802881858-1LOPHW1PE5TPC8GVMLPM/Tree+Farm+from+Grand%2C+Kyna+Rubin.JPG Tree-Friendly Developers - Ben Carr of Brett Schulz Architect https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/designing-for-trees-ben-carr daily 0.75 2020-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1574363428385-7YY07SPBW6QEH89ODV20/Tree+Farm+from+Grand%2C+Kyna+Rubin.JPG Ben Carr - Incorporating trees into building design is something “we should all be doing more of,” says Carr. The Tree Farm from SE Morrison and SE Grand. Photo: Trees for Life Oregon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1574364457739-AH1ZOK51QJF596XBDMMR/TreeFarmCloseUp.JPG Ben Carr Photo: Trees for Life Oregon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1574364802538-67U9TAA8P32L9KGENL9I/Tree+Farm+installation+day%2C+Brett+Schulz+Architect.jpg Ben Carr Photo: Brett Schulz Architecture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1574365112210-EYCIR7GFR737Y8M2Y026/Saved+Western+redcedar%2C+Kyna+Rubin.jpg Ben Carr - “It’s such a massive tree,” says Carr, that his own team “couldn’t stomach” taking it down. Saved Western redcedar at N. Holman and N. Montana. Photo: Trees for Life Oregon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1574366694098-X1BKC77JPVL57DN1569Y/Rendering%2C+Brett+Schulz+ArchitectL.jpg Ben Carr - Carr went back and forth with the developer to see if they could agree on a design that would preserve the number of apartments the company needed to make the project pencil out while also preserving the tree. That process yielded a win-win. Rendering of future development with preserved Western redcedar. Courtesy of Brett Schulz Architect https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/designing-for-trees-westin-glass daily 0.75 2020-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1576792911805-1032DI931DI61QNC7AHR/Westin+Glass%2C+Guerilla+Development.JPG Westin Glass - “We’ll always save a tree when we can,” says Glass. Westin Glass at Guerrilla's New New Crusher Court. 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Courtesy of Guerilla Development https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/how-to-testify daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/designing-for-trees-eli-spevak daily 0.75 2020-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1579031552203-H1323NU7BEELTJ9103MO/CullyGroveTreeFort.JPG Eli Spevak - Building around trees can require some extra effort and cost, both of which many developers shun. How does Spevak pull it off? Cully Grove tree fort and Douglas-firs in back. Photo: Trees for Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1578875277623-T0NOB36T9RXA924F99OP/CullyGrovePreservedTree.JPG Eli Spevak Deodar cedar and sidewalk bump out. Photo: Trees for Life Oregon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1579031025618-VGYD7C5Q4N0ZUEUEU7PT/image-asset.jpeg Eli Spevak - "The incentives are stacked against adjusting sidewalks to protect trees." Eli Spevak and the white oak he preserved at Cully Grove. Photo: Trees for Life Oregon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1578876168547-IHH3CJSVSWNTIKC4LGPU/Woolsey+Corner%2C+courtesy+of+Orange+Splot+LLC.jpg Eli Spevak Woolsey Corner's silver maple. Photo: Courtesy of Orange Splot LLC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1578876369526-U2W8Y0U4PH1WO9DQAUQJ/Mason-aerial-view-color%2C+courtesy+of+Orange+Splot+LLC.jpg Eli Spevak - "Most developers tend to throw their hands up after a quick code read, and assume it’s easier to pay a mitigation fee than to preserve a tree." Aerial View of Mason St. Townhomes. Courtesy of Orange Splot LLC https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/designing-for-trees-ethan-beck daily 0.75 2020-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1581971872636-2YB6UWD99BQZU3FGPBUJ/Save_the_giants_house_light.jpg Designing for Trees Ethan Beck - "Maintaining large trees on the properties he develops is so important to Beck that he’ll pass up projects that would require a big-tree teardown." The home Beck built next to Save the Giants Park on SE Martins Street. Photo: Trees for Life Oregon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1581125315133-X9XYLYC05OKI346TAKAJ/two+cedars+2%2C+photo+by+Armin+Winterwirth+and+sketch+for+Bybee+House.jpg Designing for Trees Ethan Beck - If a tree he’d like to preserve is 10 feet or less from one of his houses, which code does not require him to keep, “we won’t identify that as one we’re going to save, yet we’ll still save it.” Left: The two western redcedars, which look like one here, whose roots Beck protected by shrinking the lower floor plan for the SE 36th and Bybee home. The added upper floor bump-out is opposite the trees. Photo: Armin Hinterwirth. Right: Beck's revised lower floor plan, with the new cantilevered bump-out on right. Courtesy of Ethan Beck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1580357011019-QONVX8DVMRCJX96I5L3L/Ethan+Beck+SE+home+w+tree.jpg Designing for Trees Ethan Beck - Beck has been in the situation “where the city forester wants a tree to be saved and PBOT wants the road widened, and the tree has to go. So what do you do there?” he asks. The western redcedar, on left, that Beck preserved next to the house on SE Tolman. Photo: Courtesy of Ethan Beck. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/tree-code-101 daily 0.75 2021-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1581807927754-RGE2FLVQ0PA6MAVP3PA0/NorthernRedOakNEPortland.jpg Tree Code 101 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1636046807087-Z1F081BEQWL4CG0SKYS1/tree+code+CTA%283%29.png Tree Code 101 - Our Desired Tree Code Changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1581130979710-5XZGN9174ODHG93FQN10/Platanus+x+acerifolia+-+Grant+Park+June+2019.JPG Tree Code 101 - The Birth of Portland's Tree Code https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1588114325223-OSL80WZ6UDIP1T23U5C2/Fall_Tree_Bicyclist_SK.jpg Tree Code 101 - Toward a More Robust Tree Code https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1619479035066-BZNQEHPHEBUFKTJUHI6G/R10+and+R20+zones+%281%29.png Tree Code 101 - What Portland's New Density Laws Mean for Trees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1588114421584-EC29AAO9MZ8DO7L130DU/142nd-ellis-doug-fir-copy-2_1_orig.jpg Tree Code 101 - Case Study: Beloved Douglas Fir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1635803171082-AB13GO84VOEERL20VB8A/GatewayDistrict_blocks.jpg Tree Code 101 - Invisible Incentive to Preserve Large Trees https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/take-action daily 0.75 2020-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1559513937058-1XYIGLALPN2NTQTD2U1K/IMG_5178.JPG Take Action https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/the-birth-of-portlands-tree-code daily 0.75 2021-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1582848598481-L13ATLSW0KNAZ46CX7FV/Platanus+x+acerifolia+-+Grant+Park+June+2019+%281%29.JPG The Birth of Portland's Tree Code https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1582751659145-1PYBY3KPSP7Y4EI1KXMH/Eucommia+ulmoides+canopy+-+Kew+6-24-16+%2841%29.JPG The Birth of Portland's Tree Code https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1582848800165-HS6AZNXXKVCFONU3IP7E/Backyard_raptor_catalpa_tree_pic.jpg The Birth of Portland's Tree Code - Dave Nielsen, CEO of the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland, called the new code “a workable, fair, and consistent system for housing development.” Portland Audubon’s conservation director, Bob Sallinger, described it as “a huge step forward for our environment.” Photo: Sharon Kelly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1582848696075-JUU5NRAA9RHX0JS4X9L9/Western+redcedar+photo.jpg The Birth of Portland's Tree Code https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1582849085452-JV3S20ZFM6N0JY8K75DT/Tree+trunk.JPG The Birth of Portland's Tree Code https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1582849144214-M8N9L1TFNB57565LPNK2/Tree+trunk.JPG The Birth of Portland's Tree Code https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/case-study-beloved-douglas-fir daily 0.75 2020-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1587156064011-JEXJGD1DWVRNN9AP09IE/142nd-ellis-doug-fir-copy-2_1_orig.jpg Losing a Loved Douglas-fir in East Portland: A Case Study The tree, with Peart next to it, for scale. Handwritten explanations by Mirabai Peart. Photo: Ryan Francesconi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1587156017838-6HDNKAOA2Y6XKPIF2T13/pbot-s-image-concerning-the-douglas-fir_orig.png Losing a Loved Douglas-fir in East Portland: A Case Study Map showing possible workarounds to preserve the Douglas-fir. Courtesy of PBOT's Bob Haley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1587157540635-1R6YT1F8INGBJ9G21THM/fir-tree-2-light.jpg Losing a Loved Douglas-fir in East Portland: A Case Study View of Douglas-fir from a neighbor's backyard on SE Insley Street. Photo: Michael Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1587438931126-3LAD7YEREN9XQWPTTQ3Z/Save.png Losing a Loved Douglas-fir in East Portland: A Case Study Tree climber atop a giant sequoia at Save the Giants Park. Photo: Save the Giants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1587157649618-ACNJ2NIIAJ81BFAF5GJ7/fir-tree-3-light.jpg Losing a Loved Douglas-fir in East Portland: A Case Study The tree close up. Photo: Michael Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1587438658600-DKU8R32GNALZ14XYJGBS/kids+hugging+tree+save+the+giants.jpeg Losing a Loved Douglas-fir in East Portland: A Case Study Kids hug giant sequoia at Save the Giants Park. Photo: Save the Giants https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/more-robust-tree-code daily 0.75 2021-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1587163605109-MJ4TYNUJCBFBSHC9WUT4/DougfirLovelyPortraitBambooKynaRubin.JPG Toward a More Robust Tree Code https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1587163734876-9CGI7I0L9C5AUTXKCF47/Spring_flowering_tree_pic_SK.jpg Toward a More Robust Tree Code https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1587163402173-SXSH0M6G2ZQA7VGERJQN/image-asset.jpeg Toward a More Robust Tree Code https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1587164715474-DD1ABR0O36HQM2HY33V5/Catalpa_SK.JPG Toward a More Robust Tree Code https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1587164917444-4462CO7IZ05L4XG4F7YZ/Fall_Tree_Bicyclist_SK.jpg Toward a More Robust Tree Code https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/tree-views-landing-page daily 0.75 2021-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1588127015497-H3NILHTLNS20WGYWNKZR/sequoiaclose.jpg Tree Views https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1619475144529-V82Z6RXTII3LM0QPS01Z/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-04-26%2Bat%2B3.08.38%2BPM.jpg Tree Views - Big-tree Loss in Concordia: A Video Case Study https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1617484175532-GKYTBNZTK0DQZX0HY11Z/Brentwood-Darlington%2C+SE+PDX+-+newer+home+with+monkey+puzzle+in+front+-+2021+2-27+%2840%29.JPG Tree Views - Diving Deeper into Portland's Tree Canopy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1588127436038-YJD685DHBEHZFY6CU6UB/OwnersFrontStepsGiantSequoia.jpg Tree Views - Co-Owned Sequoia At-Risk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1590691303339-TK02B49U24XS6I2TGF7X/Ron+Minter.jpeg Tree Views - ADUs and the Loss of Large Trees https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/co-owned-sequoia-at-risk daily 0.75 2021-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1588117382736-VJKTF7EKSD6BOOAAL0ET/OwnersFrontStepsGiantSequoia.jpg Co-Owned Sequoia At Risk Claire Bollinger and her partner Shayan Rohani on their front steps, with the shared giant sequoia to the right of their home. Photo: Corey Arnold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1588117689860-CTDEUVLYWGF4UVFZ296B/Gian.jpg Co-Owned Sequoia At Risk - “ The City has an opportunity to make this right. Will it?" Photo: Claire Bollinger/Shayan Rohani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1588117500047-O244Y3NTNHQWAP2JYI2X/SequoiaRoofTops.jpg Co-Owned Sequoia At Risk The giant sequoia from afar. Photo: Claire Bollinger/Shayan Rohani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1588117784567-YS5LJODYZ5K1356BQEFX/GiantSequoiabase.jpg Co-Owned Sequoia At Risk - “There are ways to keep this giant tree standing." Claire Bollinger at the base of the giant sequoia. Photo: Shayan Rohani https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/adus-and-the-loss-of-large-trees daily 0.75 2021-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1590602510896-8NNZARTJ2DSTJRXN48QD/Ron+Minter.jpeg ADUs and the Loss of Large Trees The at-risk Douglas-fir trees, on this side of the fence, looking northwest into the proposed ADU site. Photo: Ron Minter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1590602460799-ZMYT6J9YW3D8M88FJBCM/Site+Plan+3015+SW+Sunset_alternative-page-001.jpg ADUs and the Loss of Large Trees The proposed ADU site plan provided by BDS. Ron Minter added the square overlay to indicate where a standard-shaped ADU could be placed. The proposed L-shaped ADU is partially underneath that. The upper left circle marks the trees at risk of removal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1590602074900-1D09Y1361N6BNAQQE8D7/Ron+Minter+D+firs.jpeg ADUs and the Loss of Large Trees The jeopardized Douglas-fir trees. Photo: Ron Minter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1599966143745-V3706LUEIQDEBLTWVPWP/Ron%27s+final+after+image.jpg ADUs and the Loss of Large Trees After removal of the seven large Douglas-firs. Photo by Ron Minter https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/tree-conscious-design-photos daily 0.75 2020-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1590696158116-G1M4ESYWCLT9NU2ZX5I6/European+Copper+Beech%2C+PSU+Library.jpg Tree-Conscious Design Photos European copper beech, PSU Millar Library, 1875 SW Park Avenue. This Portland Heritage Tree, #54, planted circa 1890 by a homeowner whose grand home was demolished in 1965, is the centerpiece of a 1989-1991 library building addition whose design integrated the structure around the iconic tree. Photo: Catherine Mushel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1590696219329-IXARPXJK3MCS5241434W/Elm+preserved+at+Eliot+Tower%2C+via+Catherine.jpg Tree-Conscious Design Photos American elm, SW 10th Avenue and Madison Street, near Eliot Tower. This very first Portland Heritage Tree, #1, known as the Burrell elm, was planted circa 1875 by homeowners Martin and Rosetta Burrell. Their home was razed long ago. The current sidewalk and patio were designed around the tree with advice from Urban Forestry arborists and the city’s Heritage Tree Committee. Photo: Catherine Mushel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1590696359487-ZUATPQL0ARW8K6UI38BG/Maple%2Bsaved%2Bon%2Bcorner%2Bof%2Bnew%2B4-rise%2Bbuilding%2BNW%2BPDX%2B2020%2B1-17%2B%25281%2529.jpg Tree-Conscious Design Photos Maple (possibly a Norway-Red hybrid), 2350 NW Raleigh Street. What stands out here is the larger-than-standard setback created to accommodate two maples and their root systems; the one shown is on the corner. Photo: Jim Gersbach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1590696315336-LV6TT75XW4KYNW99R6UM/Heritage%2BLondon%2Bplanetree%2B-%2B%2B%25283%2529.jpg Tree-Conscious Design Photos London planetree, 4328 N. Montana Avenue. This Portland Heritage Tree, #34, decades older than the new construction next to it, was likely saved because of its heritage status. It's hard to see but the developer provided a suitable root protection zone. Photo: Jim Gersbach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1590696401117-A2W2LMDXTUFDX4UKXXH8/Tom%2Bstriding%2Bacross%2Bthe%2Bstreet.jpg Tree-Conscious Design Photos Tree’d and landscaped pathway, NW Irving Street between NW 10th and 12th, south of Johnson. This path, connecting several Pearl-District streets, lies in a city-designated design zone whose guidelines include creating a pleasant, protected pedestrian walkway. Design zones often benefit from the input of landscape architects. Photo: Catherine Mushel https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/affordable-housing-meets-large-trees daily 0.75 2022-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1608250519142-UWT79Q5Q5EQGQIPH5JK3/Photos+of+Cherry+Blossom+under+construction_Page_1_Image_0001.jpg Where Affordable Housing Meets, and Keeps, Large Trees The site, looking west at the Norway maples and north at the conservation zone. Photo: Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1608251925889-DN9O9M87J2NPCMWYXKZE/L6.10_+PLANTING+PLAN+Rev.9+markup+%281%29.jpg Where Affordable Housing Meets, and Keeps, Large Trees The Cherry Blossom Drive community planting plan. Courtesy of Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1608347769925-IBQOAPQGL4OF95AMV60I/Habitat+Denney+Gardens+1.jpg Where Affordable Housing Meets, and Keeps, Large Trees - A treed natural area may be a kind of luxury for Habitat, he says, “but when we see the opportunity we certainly try and seize it.” Denney Gardens under construction, with the nature corridor on the left. Photo: Habitat for Humanity Willamette West. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1608347874678-TKZI54HI7ZX4ZQN9YEMU/Habitat%2BVance%2BPl%2B2.jpg Where Affordable Housing Meets, and Keeps, Large Trees Vance Place's mini-park. Photo: Habitat for Humanity Willamette West. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/graceful-saves daily 0.75 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1581807927754-RGE2FLVQ0PA6MAVP3PA0/NorthernRedOakNEPortland.jpg The Good: Graceful Saves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/03d3c32d-2c83-4df5-ba1f-266aa1a09778/two+incense+cedars%2C+Irvington%2C+%232425+18th+or+19th+ish%2C+west+side+of+street.jpg The Good: Graceful Saves A relatively newly built home in Irvington is blessed with a wide planting strip without overhead wires. Its owners were forward-thinking by planting two incense cedars in this roomy spot. Incense cedars are hardy, drought-tolerant, climate-resilient trees that, if properly watered and maintained, especially for their first three to five years, will provide years of large-tree shade and other ecological benefits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/89b5451d-ca3f-4d54-9095-3101dc995fab/Boise+and+52nd+photo.jpg The Good: Graceful Saves The fence around this large red oak indicates that the developer has chosen to preserve and protect this tree during construction. The residents of this new multi-unit at SE Boise and 52nd will gain health benefits from its being spared removal. The oak will shade them from the scorching summer southern sun, clean ambient air, mute traffic noise, and provide on-site stormwater management for many years to come—a win-win for all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/b15376ce-e87d-43be-aff7-50517a787b7c/Quercus+frainetto+with+setback+-+off+NE+Broadway%2C+PDX.JPG The Good: Graceful Saves High-density housing can be made healthier for residents if just a little thought is given for where large or medium-form trees can be located close by. Here, the developer set back the upper floors of this building between NE Weidler and Broadway to give the street trees more light and room to reach their mature form. The Hungarian oak (Quercus frainetto) is a climate-resilient tree that has done well in recent heat waves. Giving it a bit of space will pay dividends for the building's residents in terms of better health and quality of life, especially by mitigating extreme heat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/cda9def1-b9b1-4039-b9fc-5e31325db917/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2020++1-8+%2813%29+%281%29.JPG The Good: Graceful Saves Preserving this large silver maple was a priority for the individuals who years ago hired Seattle-based architect Grace Kim of Schemata Workshop to design around this shade-giver for the Daybreak Cohousing building they developed to live in. The cohousing founders agreed to sacrifice space for a parking lot in order to save this tree, which they made Daybreak’s logo. One founder-resident, Ken Cameron-Bell, says that Daybreak pays for an arborist to care for the tree twice a year. “It’s expensive but we all want to do it because it’s our tree.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/81f9f399-f45e-499c-b02c-9c73b6b66c33/Garry+oak+at+Cully+Green%2C+NE+47th+Ave+just+south+of+Going+%282%29.jpg The Good: Graceful Saves This huge Garry oak on NE 47th Avenue was preserved when developer Eli Spevak built Cully Green, a cluster of homes off Going Street. The builder had to apply for a variance to move the sidewalk farther from the tree. Variances cost developers time and money. Rather than charge them for doing the right thing by preserving large, environmentally important trees like this one, why can’t the City require builders to tweak sidewalks for this purpose? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/835c5f6d-912a-46f0-b79e-a026cc3405f8/red+oak+save+front+view%2C+NE+18th+and+Skidmore.jpg The Good: Graceful Saves This mature red oak is providing maximum environmental benefits at this stage in its life, despite growing in a strip now deemed too narrow for such a large-sized tree. Rather than remove it, the developer of this fourplex at NE 18th and Skidmore worked with the City to save it. The sidewalk was narrowed to give more room to the roots while still meeting ADA standards. Current City code in strips of this size limit selection to short-growing species like dogwoods. But small trees will never provide the shade and other benefits of this large oak. Residents of this new complex will get immediate benefits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/c4d4e34e-3133-4402-a112-8c151c521604/Oak+saved+in+Cully.JPG The Good: Graceful Saves This large, mature oak tree was saved during construction of multiple-family homes in Cully. The effort provided immediate shade and cooling to the new structures, blocking hot afternoon western sun. With enough attention paid to protecting root zones, trees like this one can be incorporated into denser housing options, preserving environmental and social benefits to residents that a newly planted tree might take decades to replace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/114981db-7a9c-4126-ac1d-0fa90a2eeea7/tulip+trees+in+ROW+NE+Siskiyou+and+18th+by+KR+%281%29.jpg The Good: Graceful Saves This right-of-way planting strip on NE Siskiyou, wide and free of overhead wires, was nonetheless empty for decades until new homeowners planted these tulip trees, whose large form at maturity will shade residents, pedestrians, bicyclists, and cars for many years to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/42cb8b94-95bf-4833-bf81-d5e2ef120523/pine+on+NE+Broadway%2C+south+side%2C+preserved.jpg The Good: Graceful Saves Thanks go to the property owner who preserved this pine tree and the space for it to flourish. This one expansive tree provides enough canopy to shade pedestrians and cars across several street and parking lot spaces. The pine provides badly needed relief from scorching summer sun to Portlanders who frequent this southern stretch of NE Broadway near 42nd Avenue. Wouldn't it be great if the City started requiring property owners along commercial streets to follow this example? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/862d16d6-a46c-4598-ab5b-6648e03dc199/doug-firs+saved+between+units.jpg The Good: Graceful Saves Higher density doesn't have to mean losing all yard trees. The developer of these units replaced one home with three new ones, deciding to forfeit a fourth unit to retain these old Douglas-firs between two of the new homes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/58b0559c-a74b-4620-9513-0f2e394d7fc2/June+G+1415+NE+Failing%2C+via+Julie+F.png The Good: Graceful Saves Kudos to the developer who preserved this large Western redcedar yard tree when building this home at NE 14th and Failing Street in low-canopy Sabin. Sabin's right-of-way planting strips are narrow, typically only three-feet-wide or less; its small- and medium-size planting strips make up 90 percent of street-tree planting sites. With no space in the right-of-way for large-form trees like this one, this neighborhood is highly dependent on private-property tree preservation and planting to increase its canopy. City street-tree planting requirements in new development can’t compensate for loss of private-property canopy in Sabin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/2f5b6beb-2803-4919-b336-1e46c380f94b/May+G+Portsmouth+2021+3-21+%288%29.JPG The Good: Graceful Saves Preserving this already existing large Atlas cedar was an especially good thing when building this new north Portland home. Its narrow curb planting strip doesn't have room for a tree due to the guywire from the electric pole out of view to the left. Large evergreens provide year-round environmental benefits to people living nearby and to wildlife. A mature tree like this one also provides continuity for long-time neighbors facing redevelopment of their block. The developer also took care to mirror architectural elements of traditional Portland homes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/47464bd0-3eb1-4039-9fce-67b8c99659bd/Brentwood-Darlington%2C+SE+PDX+-+newer+home+with+monkey+puzzle+in+front+-+2021+2-27+%2840%29.JPG The Good: Graceful Saves Redevelopment of this East Portland lot brought a sidewalk and curb, helping define the planting strip and adding to the area’s walkability. Enough space was also left for a large-form tree. The homeowner chose to plant a monkey puzzle tree, native to Chile. These unusual trees help "keep Portland weird." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/fd80f849-7027-401a-b6a3-f3525760c8b9/Brentwood-Darlington%2C-SE-PDX---Douglas-fir-spared-in-backyard---2021-2-27-47_SMALL.jpg The Good: Graceful Saves These new SE homeowners in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood have a house where a developer saved a large Douglas-fir in the backyard. Many lots in this neighborhood have large specimens of Oregon's official state tree that are worth saving. How many families in newly built homes will be as lucky as this one to have inherited the shade, air filter, and air conditioning that this tree provides? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/0c154995-55d3-4ba1-b167-9fc2e35c1dd8/Brentwood-Darlington%2C+SE+PDX+-+Douglas-fir+spared+by+newer+home+-+2021+2-27+%2834%29.JPG The Good: Graceful Saves This corner-lot Douglas-fir was saved when this SE home in Brentwood-Darlington was built. Hot summer days are undoubtedly much cooler in this house under the shade of this imposing conifer. Will other trees this size be given the room they need when multi-unit buildings are built on lots where they now stand? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/329901c5-c807-416c-a76a-9c2cfa450718/Picture1.png The Good: Graceful Saves It will take years before the deciduous tree planted by this new home’s residents in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood gets as big as the ponderosa pine that was saved during construction. Preserving space for this pine still allowed room for a driveway and a single-family home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/b81bea4a-9497-4ca6-bd5d-1874a25b4513/rc_skinny.jpg The Good: Graceful Saves This "skinny house" in Rose City Park takes up most of its lot space. But the builder left just enough room for this mature conifer and its root zone. Sparing healthy specimens like this one preserves environmental benefits that might take a replacement tree half a century to achieve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/cf2e6b10-4aab-4981-ac8c-f3ee56046ab3/Cully+save%2C+Doug+fir.jpg The Good: Graceful Saves It's not clear what role if any the city's higher fees for removing 20-inch-diameter or larger trees is having on saving some large-form trees. But whatever the motivation, the developer of this multi-unit building going up on NE 42nd near Fernhill Park in the Cully neighborhood spared this big Douglas-fir. With a protected root zone, this native conifer will continue to provide environmental benefits for area residents new and old. This tree could still be storing carbon, offering shade and habitat, and cleaning the air at the turn of the next century and beyond, since Douglas-firs have a natural lifespan of many centuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1631310321229-FITN8GSK1SEA4XZJXEYI/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2897%29.JPG The Good: Graceful Saves Most skinny houses leave no room for trees on their small lots. This one in Arbor Lodge is typical in not having room for a tree in the front, but it stands out for having preserved a large Douglas-fir in a corner of the backyard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1612757862944-54QVABB3TON6BFS6R7SD/Quercus+rubra+saved+in+front+yard+of+new+home+-+Beaumont-Wilshire%2C+NE+PDX+-+2021+1-22++%2832%29.JPG The Good: Graceful Saves Generations of people to come will enjoy this mature, large red oak thanks to a careful developer who built a new home while preserving the root zone around this giant. While much of the front yard is now paved, this tree's wide branches will help shade and cool the pavement while shielding the new home from hot afternoon sun. Not every tree can or should be saved, but with minor adjustments it's possible to preserve these valuable assets. This increases the value of the new home and keeps some visual continuity and sense of place for people in the neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1612758422933-4GF34H7ZSKJ4JIF1XJ83/Giant+sequoia+saved+in+front+yard+-+Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2857%29.JPG The Good: Graceful Saves Careful construction helped this giant sequoia survive to offer shade and beauty. With a lifespan of hundreds of years, this tree could outlive several dwellings on the same lot if shown respect at each redevelopment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1612759162611-S8CXHTP0PDZBKY5XBC36/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2851%29.JPG The Good: Graceful Saves While this relatively new house on a corner doesn't leave much room for a tree of any size, the builder did take care to preserve the street trees, which provide immediate shade and other benefits for the new owners. When many houses in a row are demolished, street trees may be the only link with the past for people living on streets like this one in north Portland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1625099768365-0NQ52SJ088PX6P8OCHCB/Quercus+garryana+new+street+tree+in+front+of+new+house+-+Concordia%2C+PDX+-+2021+1-22++%2878%29.JPG The Good: Graceful Saves This new home is lucky to have a planting strip with no overhead wires and wide enough to accommodate a large-form tree. A young Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana) has been appropriately planted here, ensuring that in a few decades this home and the street and block it sits on will benefit from its shade and the food and habitat it provides for dozens of wildlife species. In many fast-densifying Portland neighborhoods the only space remaining for large-form trees is in street right-of-ways. This makes it even more important to reserve big planting spaces along streets for large trees rather than smaller trees such as dogwoods and Japanese snowbells. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly daily 0.75 2021-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1612756973876-RCWDQ58HA0CNYPAL77FL/Quercus+rubra+saved+in+front+yard+of+new+home+-+Beaumont-Wilshire%2C+NE+PDX+-+2021+1-22++%2832%29.JPG The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Graceful Saves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1612757537331-YIPI4UREUGQRF6TMZ2CF/Calocedrus+decurrens+and+apartment+building+on+NE+Fremont+-+Beaumont-Wilshire%2C+PDX+-+2021+1-22++%2879%29.JPG The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Vulnerable Trees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1612757770380-Q7612K2T6TFWSYSSQ3HV/IMG_0767+%281%29.JPG The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Our Future Without Code Changes https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/our-future-without-code-changes daily 0.75 2025-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1581807927754-RGE2FLVQ0PA6MAVP3PA0/NorthernRedOakNEPortland.jpg The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1f630b1d-35bc-40cd-b7b1-9c48d9b4a2cf/no+room+for+trees+in+new+Cully+dev%2C+from+Jim.jpg The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes Large residential lots in Cully are rapidly being turned into multi-unit housing like this development on NE Going Street. Impervious surface covers most of the lots. The tiny unpaved patches in front of each unit have just enough space for one tree. But since these trees are within 10 feet of the house, under current City rules they can be removed by a future homeowner for any reason. We need more housing for sure. But it should be better designed to hold enough pervious surface to house at least a medium-size tree more than 10 feet from the house that will shade residents in summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/ce3d0aa6-4a0e-45ff-96ce-f2289e67d8b4/Brentwood-Darlington%2C+SE+PDX+-+vehicle+damage+to+ROW+planting+strip+-+2021+2-27+%2816%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes A lack of defined and protected right-of-way planting strips, here shown in Brentwood-Darlington, results in a space often dominated by vehicular uses, as seen by these tire ruts in the very area where trees are supposed to be planted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/4c483c9e-7ab2-43b6-b2f5-6adc7df4cbf6/Montana+Street.+NE+PDX+%281%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes Overhead wires and a narrow planting strip mean no large- or medium-form tree will be possible in front of this multi-unit building under construction in Arbor Lodge. The City could have insisted that in such situations the developer leave room for at least one large-form tree in front of the building on one corner in exchange for adding a unit on another floor. But such improvements to the livability of new housing units almost never occurs, condemning future residents and those who already live on such fast-infilling streets to nearly treeless blocks that are more polluted, noisier, and much hotter than they would be if space for a few large-form trees had been required. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/832b3c29-02ab-4b3b-bce9-b07ebdc1f674/Arbor+Lodge+grass+no+trees+%281%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes This yard and planting strip could accommodate a medium to large tree but there is none. Elderly and low-income homeowners often are afraid to have trees because the City won't pay for the maintenance of street trees and they can't physically do the work or afford to pay others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/58e14080-7341-450f-ab14-6ce6e700fe6d/Portsmouth+2021+3-21+%283%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes No room for a sizeable tree around this newly constructed north Portland home! Not on either side nor in the front yard, more than half of which will be paved driveway and walkway. The neighbor’s tree will be nice to look out on unless the next-door lot is turned into a multiplex, precluding space for medium- or large-form trees. Residents of this block will have no shade from street trees either if redevelopment comes with curb planting strips less than four-feet wide, as is becoming the norm. Small to no trees are required for small planting strips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/989ee5c4-d6d5-4126-82ea-f66fe43b1d3a/Portsmouth+2021+3-21+%2856%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes The original right-of-way planting strip width can be seen in the background. Inexplicably, the builder of the new house in the middle got away with narrowing that strip, making it unsuitable for even a small tree. The City should be requiring developers to match planting strip widths, or where feasible enlarge them so they can accommodate street trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/12ff4d67-d709-402e-810d-13cf1ad1d670/Brentwood-Darlington%2C+SE+PDX+-+skinny+houses+with+no+trees+-+2021+2-27+%2828%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes These newer single-family homes in Brentwood-Darlington have none of the mature Douglas-firs that have been a hallmark of this SE neighborhood. Nor do they have space to grow a medium- or large-form tree in the future. Without room for yard trees, entire blocks are reduced to relying on street trees for shade. But many streets in traditionally underserved areas have no defined right-of-way or have only undersized planting strips that preclude large or medium-form trees, even absent power lines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/dfd11aef-ddae-417e-9468-1cf782f3f129/tree+well%2C+Vernon.jpg The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes With no space reserved for trees on the lot of this Vernon duplex, its residents’ only shade will come from a single street tree planted in a well. Tree wells are required to be a bit larger than in the past but are still too constrained to promote root growth. Often a tree then must be removed years before its natural decline. This robs residents of its health and environmental benefits just as it becomes mature enough to yield them. Duplexes, triplexes, and quadruplexes like this one, built right up to the sidewalk and surrounded by impervious surfaces, demonstrate a failure to design for climate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/fa561755-5ac1-4386-8a1f-8cf92e27257f/St+Johns+contrast.jpg The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes As infill proceeds in St. Johns, the diverse lushness and large trees are being replaced with fewer and smaller trees and no yard trees to speak of. The neighborhood is living on borrowed canopy that is slowly being depleted and replaced with an inferior canopy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/2ef89771-c27b-41cb-aba5-888dcddfd210/bus+stop+2%2C+no+trees%2C+NE+Alberta+and+7th.jpg The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes Many Portland bus stops are completely paved over with impervious concrete or asphalt with no space for trees to provide shade for riders waiting for a bus. Trees near bus stops do face severe pruning streetside to accommodate passing buses. But for a city that likes to celebrate innovative design it seems to have thrown in the towel on thinking how to get trees into the transit mix for the benefit of riders and neighborhoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/35846e19-e06f-4a81-946a-f09e1658ad90/Bus+stop%2C+no+trees%2C+Jim%2C+Oct+2022.jpg The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes Portland planners hope that as more people crowd into the city, they will be persuaded to take buses and other mass transit. Lack of tree shade at bus stops like this one at SE Duke and 60th is a deterrent to taking a bus on hot days, which are increasingly common here, even in spring and fall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/b3cb6792-3c68-425f-a8d0-1e387bbfcf4c/IMG_0840.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes Where planting strips are narrow, as in many lower income areas, the new high-density streetscapes are starkly lacking in space for large- or medium-sized trees. This Arbor Lodge street is a glimpse into the future of what your block may soon look like. Can the City really be deliberately planning to make all of Portland this unhealthy for mind, body, and spirit? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/00096f20-7260-4a7d-9a9e-0d5ae0335582/June+U+IMG_0831.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes Across neighborhoods we see Portland's history and character disappearing in front of us. A tide of new buildings leaving no space for trees is replacing small, historic houses. When the house here is razed for development this enormous, unprotected shade tree will no doubt be removed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/d737ab97-b996-45e1-8add-8a6801d0f67b/May+U+Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%283%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes The house on the right at least has potential for a large-form tree. That potential has been lost for the multi-unit building on the lot to the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/ae20cfec-8b39-405b-9fc5-7550c1a16886/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%28135%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes Is this view next door in your future? If you live in a neighborhood of lower priced homes, it certainly could be. Expect zero trees next door since narrow setbacks can’t accommodate trees and still allow access to the back of these units. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/e4ba2e05-c057-4a73-b08d-21f00cb9a634/Arbor-Lodge%2C-PDX-2021-1-30-131_SMALL.jpg The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes If residents of these new buildings want to see trees of any kind they'll have to go for a walk. Their view, like that of a growing number of Portlanders, is the walls and windows of the building next door. Treeless properties like this are where many residents have had to spend month after month during the pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/cef4b079-10ed-4379-b1fc-a9c48df06ec7/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%28137%29.jpg The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes A brick facade makes this multi-unit building in Arbor Lodge pleasant and likely to remain so long after many other new projects will look tired and worn, and the new sidewalks are a plus. But where are the street trees? No room was left on the lot itself for trees, as the building was allowed to come right to the street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/c76a339c-5613-40e5-92c1-de0428f3926d/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2889%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes New density results in front yards with room for only a small tree, if that. An alternative would be to focus on planting large trees on the curb strip. But with right-of-way planting strips like this one that are less than 4 feet wide, only small trees can be planted. Small trees can't provide the shade, cooling, and other environmental benefits that large-form trees do at maturity. One option for such disadvantaged neighborhoods would be for the City to require an adjustment to enlarge the strip to at least 6 feet--absent overhead power lines--to house large-form trees. This might require narrowing the sidewalk by 6 to 12 inches while still meeting minimum width standards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/0769ce7b-b524-4425-ae65-6ae52eee8be7/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%284%29.jpg The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes Welcome to impermeable Portland! After millions spent to build a bigger stormwater drainage system, the City continues unabated to pave over the soil that absorbs rainfall runoff for free. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1a40f903-6701-4bb9-a537-17fc78141752/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2863%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes One good thing about new development in Portland neighborhoods with incomplete street infrastructure is that sidewalks and curbs were required to be put in. This promised that allowing infill or major remodels would eventually give pedestrians safer places to walk, and street trees would have defined planting spaces in which to thrive. Neither of those promises were fulfilled here. No sidewalk or curb was put in. Without a defined planting space for a street tree, planting is inadvisable. The planting strip is now parked on by vehicles. Pedestrians must walk in the mud, diverting into the street to walk around parked vehicles. Lack of sidewalks is a health equity issue. Neighborhoods with complete sidewalk systems make walking safer, encouraging more people to walk, which contributes to better health. Where sidewalks are absent the reverse is true. So why are developers sometimes allowed to skip adding them in front of their projects? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1631310610443-C4CYKFH9EPBHADAKB5YK/IMG_0783.jpg The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes This newly constructed multiplex doesn’t have enough room for a tree so the builder simply paved it, creating an impermeable surface almost all around the complex. How will this reduce flooding when we have more intense rain events, which climate scientists are predicting? And with narrow planting strips up and down this street in Boise-Eliot, once the last old houses are demolished to make way for more of these units, the street will no longer have any large yard trees to help shade and cool it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1612759367413-AQTZJ8HZZ4E7T4IA4SMA/ADU+takes+up+room+for+a+large+tree+-+Beaumont-Wilshire%2C+PDX+-+2021+1-22++%2838%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes Large-form trees are often found in Portlanders' backyards. One threat to them comes from encouragement to build Auxiliary Dwelling Units (ADUs). These provide rental income for homeowners and more places for renters. The yard space now being gobbled up by ADUs, however, was once a prime spot for large shade trees. The result? More places to live but less livable places. Without those trees we’re left with more noise and less shade, pollution filtration, and rainfall interception. At the same time we’ve got more impermeable surfaces like roofs, driveways, and paved paths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1612762833777-DJTCDZRRBH03TUC1L9FI/IMG_0776+%281%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes For now there are still enough modest-sized homes in Portland's formerly single-family residential neighborhoods to lull people into thinking that the livability of these areas will persist. It's easy to imagine their yard trees will continue to offer shade, places for birds to perch, and relief from staring all day into computer and phone screens. But as infill proceeds to maximize the buildable footprint of each lot, adequate space for large trees is not being saved. And that is radically altering the character of these neighborhoods that drew people to them in the first place. Here is future Portland, a future where trees have been denied adequate space and are relegated to tiny setbacks. People will have to make do with dwarf trees or none visible from their window. Gone will be the soaring oaks, tulip trees, sycamores, lindens, maples, beeches, and native Douglas-firs. Our canopy of large-form trees will shrink to scattered oases in increasingly overcrowded parks or in wide planting strips in a few lucky higher-income neighborhoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1612762900965-TK9BGOCWN817NIQ26MI6/IMG_0772+%281%29.JPG The Ugly: Our Future Without Code Changes Newer homes larger than the ones they replaced are maxing out the buildable footprint so that the front doors are only 10 feet from the sidewalk. Reduced front yards allow for only one small-at-maturity tree. These token trees are becoming ubiquitous in developed areas. In 50 years these trees will still be shorter than the houses and unable to provide shade to roofs or parking spaces. This block was not planned well for a warming planet, as it will lack enough shade to blunt the impact of hotter temperatures coming our way. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/vulnerable-trees daily 0.75 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1581807927754-RGE2FLVQ0PA6MAVP3PA0/NorthernRedOakNEPortland.jpg The Bad: Vulnerable Trees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/fea2b918-1fda-4cf1-a887-4ce9b9a33573/Portsmouth+2021+3-21+%2845%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees Missed opportunity! These newer multi-family dwellings in north Portland have street trees but could have fit medium-size trees in their front yards. The absent trees would have shaded these homes and sidewalks on hot summer days. They could have been places for birds to roost and might have had nectar for pollinators or fruit and nuts to nourish wildlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/8d1b4b61-9259-48d7-b224-1d8c737d6a40/Portsmouth+2021+3-21+%2847%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees The yards of newly built homes like this one in north Portland hold only small-maturing trees such as a Japanese maple or a dwarf conifer, even when there’s room for a medium-sized tree like a linden or Hungarian oak. The lack of dedicated arborist staff time within the Bureau of Development Services to ensure the best compliance with tree-planting regulations designed to maximize canopy is partly to blame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/41e6ccae-c01d-4fb4-827e-852ad4b5c883/Portsmouth+2021+3-21+%285%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees The relatively low cost of smaller homes in north Portland makes them prime targets for purchase, demolition, and replacement by larger, more costly homes. That puts trees like this Douglas-fir at risk of removal unless the City puts more teeth into tree preservation rules. Social media short: North Portland Douglas-firs like this one are at risk of removal when standing next to small, lower-cost homes that are prime targets for development, unless the City puts more teeth into tree preservation rules. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/2b1f4427-62fa-4095-a306-7b990641ef68/Portsmouth+2021+3-21+%2817%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees The many young trees planted in front of this north Portland multiplex of necessity are small-maturing trees such as redbuds. By code, none could be planted in the narrow right-of-way planting strip, although ones that were already there were preserved. Would it have been better to forego the tiny strip of lawn in front of the buildings and instead place the sidewalk there, flush with the building, in order to create a much wider planting strip? That would have made enough space for a large-maturing tree that could have grown to shade this tall building. Adding a 5- to 6-foot sidewalk width to a 2- or 3-foot planting strip creates a space big enough for trees like lindens, elms, oaks, which live two or three times as long as redbuds. Rather than simply rubber-stamp plans that meet existing code, wouldn't it be better if City planners flagged developments where planting strips are narrow and worked with builders to create flexible solutions to creating optimal canopy outcome? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/45889d2b-bcde-4016-b308-4cd9b30f01e0/Portsmouth+2021+3-21+%2812%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees This north Portland multiplex has been around long enough to show what similar developments will look like in a few years. The driveways leave little yard space. Some residents have planted trees that, of necessity, are small at maturity. These cherries will barely be as tall as the roof. Limited private planting space is compounded by the narrow public planting strip. One solution is to shrink the front yard a bit and require wider street tree strips that can hold a larger tree. Right-of-way trees enjoy greater protection than private yard trees; they aren’t subject to removal at the whim of future homeowners as are yard trees within 10 feet of a house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/d69bbbe8-0a9b-4955-987d-b073f0715cf6/Demolished+house%2C+wrong+trees+removed.jpg The Bad: Vulnerable Trees Another single-family home lies demolished in NE Portland. Developers often level all vegetation on a lot, paying whatever the fee is for removing large trees. But sometimes trees that should be removed are left. The hawthorn in this parking strip is in poor condition. It would be better to require the developer to remove it and replant with a healthier species after construction. Ditto the invasive English holly tree in the back left corner. Having a qualified City arborist review what trees are on lots as they come up for development would allow for such recommendations to guide what is preserved and what can and should be removed. The current state push to accelerate development by eliminating even the current, weak tree rules and practices we have now will further accelerate canopy loss in our neighborhoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/33193e53-e19d-4c35-bfc4-327458c340be/nine+foot+tree+wells+not+enough.jpg The Bad: Vulnerable Trees This new multiunit on NE Killingsworth in Vernon has the expanded 9-foot-long tree wells required by updated codes. This still doesn't provide enough room for the healthy development of a large tree, and likely will result in its premature decline. Replacing trees periodically is more costly than designing enough space for them to begin with. Why not require a continuous planting strip, perhaps with stepping stones at intervals for pedestrians to cross, rather than isolate trees in what amount to large pots? This would also allow tree roots to intertwine below ground with those of other trees in the same strip, which researchers find can increase their resilience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/f12367a0-457e-47bf-bd68-73d3fb96d6c7/Mt.+Tabor%2C+SE+PDX+2021+2-28+%2835%29+%281%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees Under Portland's tree code, the magnificent blue Atlas cedar (at left) is not protected against removal by the property owner. That's because it’s growing within 10' of a structure, and City permits in that case are more or less automatically granted, no questions asked. As lots are redeveloped with narrower setbacks, almost all new yard trees will have to be planted within 10' of a structure, putting their long-term future in doubt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/8ed51c3f-2b77-49b0-8e9b-14358b1d1615/Mt.+Tabor%2C+SE+PDX+2021+2-28+%2827%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees These neighbors in Mt. Tabor share a healthy backyard western redcedar. The sale of either home to a developer could endanger this tree. Tree preservation rules don't even apply to average-sized and small lots, and where they do, developers can opt out of preserving a tree by simply paying a fee. Neighboring property owners have no legal say in what a developer may choose to do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/2920590f-57d6-4b99-b512-c45f3292f26a/Brentwood-Darlington%2C+SE+PDX+-+Oregon+white+oaks+in+ill-defined+ROW+planting+strip+-+2021+2-27+%2832%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees These young Oregon white oaks, likely planted by the Bureau of Environmental Services or Friends of Trees, are a great tree choice. But without City investment in planting strips, curbs, and sidewalks, soil compaction and vehicle damage--see skid marks here--put their long-term health and viability at risk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/bad88e2c-4b7b-4cdf-aaad-5551b65d210e/Brentwood-Darlington%2C+SE+PDX+-+3+Douglas-firs+in+two+yards+-+2021+2-27+%283%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees One of East Portland’s distinguishing features is its impressive number of large Douglas-firs. Many of these second-growth trees are in the 75- to 100-year range and have withstood wind, snow, and ice while keeping neighborhoods like this one, Brentwood-Darlington, buffered from heat, noise, and pollution. But without thought given to preserving space for healthy big conifers where feasible, they could disappear within a generation. Many already have. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/86c132c8-8acd-43ea-8412-6868eb95378d/June+B+Oregon+myrtle%2C+Rose+City+Park.jpg The Bad: Vulnerable Trees Big broadleaved evergreens like this Oregon myrtle (Umbellularia californica) gracing the backyard of a home in Rose City Park are rare in Portland. Native to coastal areas of southwest Oregon and California, these trees should be given extra consideration when development occurs because they provide the full array of environmental benefits year-round, something our more numerous deciduous trees can’t do in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/8cdf2432-4fde-4526-aee6-07f0f43b6e96/May+B+Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2893%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees Many owners of new homes love nearby large trees. They park under their shade and enjoy the bird song these trees bring. Yet trees like this one may only be temporary. When the house on the left gets redeveloped, as the one on the right has been, will the developer preserve a mature shade tree like this one? This might require slight siting or floor plan changes, and adjustments cost. These adjustments were easier when planning to build a single-family home. When constructing a four-plex, now permitted in former single-family home zones, it’s much harder to make space for a decent-size tree, especially without requirements in code to do so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/8183f6d7-b145-4bf1-8af9-80097ec93697/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2884%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees This native western red-cedar in the front yard and these native Douglas-firs in the backyard could be preserved even if multi-use housing is built on this corner lot. It will take designing the units to protect enough space for their root zones. Currently, the City does not mandate that building designs be adjusted to preserve space for healthy, environmentally important species such as these. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/56bb97b9-f3ea-4219-b778-b9a4e6527427/Arbor-Lodge%2C-PDX-2021-1-30-19_SMALL.jpg The Bad: Vulnerable Trees Until they reach at least 20 inches in diameter at breast height, large-form trees like this backyard Douglas-fir receive no special protection. A tree's diameter at time of construction may not be the best gauge of whether it should be preserved. Without protecting younger trees of long-lived, large-growing species, neighborhoods will find themselves lacking replacements for their large-form trees as they die from old age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/5613d593-8dfd-4441-8d11-b6013dc7a4f5/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%28122%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees It's rare to see a large-from tree planted in front of a new multi-unit building. Kudos to this developer, who planted oaks on three sides of this Arbor Lodge quadriplex with enough headroom to eventually shade the building. But to ensure these trees have enough room to reach their full size, a sand or gravel path or paving stones that could be adjusted as roots expand would have been a better solution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1d1fdbf2-90ca-450b-b05f-4c5c3a94a65c/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%28102%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees Good tree choice but poorly sited! This narrow-form Alaska yellow-cedar is planted too close to the fence and sidewalk for its ultimate size. Placing it in the middle of the lawn would have allowed it to reach maturity without causing infrastructure problems. The right tree in the right space is paramount. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/207a0936-6ca5-4991-b295-89e2365e5455/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2817%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees This grove of Douglas-fir sits on a corner lot in Arbor Lodge, the kind coveted by developers. Will space be provided for their continued existence once this home is sold and targeted for demolition so a multi-unit building can be erected? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/bf60604c-dac5-4fc5-b790-49d151fae38b/birches.png The Bad: Vulnerable Trees Great that beautiful trees were squeezed into this small setback between buildings, but bad choice of species. Birches are highly vulnerable to death from the bronze birch borer. Portland Urban Forestry experts should have a greater say in approving tree choices in development. They can also check that the trees builders choose aren't just the cheapest available but are suited to the soil, drainage, available sunlight, and proximity of buildings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1631310447496-5GGUBO50W4Q3GPS19ARV/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2867%29%281%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees This spruce on a corner lot faces an uncertain future. Its North Portland neighborhood is rapidly changing from one of modest, one-story single-family homes with many large shade trees to one of multi-story, multi-unit buildings lacking space for anything but small trees. Compared to this stately spruce, little trees will provide greatly reduced environmental benefits, not just to future owners of this lot but to everyone living on the block. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1612758847049-5DYT09CI28YBS8K7SADD/Big+tree+on+corner+lot+-+Grant+Park%2C+PDX+-+2021+1-22++%2890%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees Corner lots are especially attractive to developers because of rules allowing greater density in neighborhoods formerly zoned for single-family homes. Without requirements to preserve large-form, healthy, non-nuisance trees when these lots are redeveloped, large trees are especially vulnerable to removal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1612758908246-68LWR9ZZ1XQ49PWQ7A9K/Calocedrus+decurrens+and+apartment+building+on+NE+Fremont+-+Beaumont-Wilshire%2C+PDX+-+2021+1-22++%2879%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees Multi-story apartment buildings are rising along transit routes across Portland, often abutting single-family neighborhoods. Existing large-form trees like this incense cedar are often the only big trees for several blocks. Apartment dwellers benefit in myriad ways from being close to this mature evergreen. But without strong rules to preserve healthy, non-nuisance, large- and medium-form trees, people living in these densely populated zones will be even further removed from nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1612758999193-YZ6GZ6MI9UF9XPSA062C/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2853%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees Dawn redwoods (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) like this one are one of only five kinds of conifers that shed their leaves in winter. This living fossil, once thought to be extinct, was introduced to this country in 1948 after its discovery by Chinese botanists in China. Large trees like this one are at risk of extinction here, now that denser multi-unit development is allowed in residential neighborhoods formerly zoned as single-family. There is no blanket provision for their protection during infill development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1625101268543-RDU97N2NX4WV65Q8L3L6/Home+for+sale+with+backyard+conifers+-PDX+-+2021+1-22++%2845%29.JPG The Bad: Vulnerable Trees This large evergreen conifer gracing the backyard of a house for sale in NE Portland adds enormously to the livability of the neighborhood. As this kind of home is scooped up for redevelopment into duplexes and triplexes, ensuring firm rules to preserve space for these trees becomes essential. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/invisible-incentive-to-preserve-large-trees daily 0.75 2021-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1615181536496-CIHAOW21PIIVZRL7I81N/Trees_near_148th_Ave_LRTstation.jpg Invisible Incentive to Preserve Large Trees Douglas-fir groves near East Burnside and SE 148th Ave. This and all visuals courtesy of Bill Cunningham. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1615181665452-A9IL0RG25G9RZJT9OODM/East_Portland_MFR_Deep_Rear_Setback.jpg Invisible Incentive to Preserve Large Trees - The rules suggest, but don’t require, building right up to the street but leaving a large, treed common space in the shared backyards of multiplex residents. Rendering of what multi-dwelling housing with deep backyard setbacks could look like under new zoning code rules. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1615182235015-GK5YS9UBVJOPGPBM9TMT/GatewayDistrict_blocks.jpg Invisible Incentive to Preserve Large Trees Douglas-firs at NE Holladay and 106th Avenue that TDR is designed to preserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1615181869495-YEP8GW358HAXBHT3HO5X/Perimeter_Blocks_Munich.jpg Invisible Incentive to Preserve Large Trees The perimeter block design leaving mid-block space for large trees, as seen in Munich, Germany. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/diving-deeper-portland-tree-canopy daily 0.75 2021-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1617478296229-OSP3T50VNY7K5JL9N3TU/IMG_0727.JPG Diving Deeper into Portland's Tree Canopy Small public right-of-way strips in development can only hold small trees; neither these nor the private-property trees next to this multi-unit building will ever grow large enough to offer much shade to residents or pedestrians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1617478643812-082GMO4V928EGPQUN2D5/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2884%29.JPG Diving Deeper into Portland's Tree Canopy Towering private-property trees are at risk if these NE Portland sites are developed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1617478370836-E7KRP3OX8BUMZLRTQFZ8/Portsmouth+2021+3-21+%2836%29.JPG Diving Deeper into Portland's Tree Canopy Tiny trees in tiny right-of-way strips yield tiny if any health and environmental benefits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1617478418792-SA0GPGYOYU7LLBDUGK5G/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2817%29.JPG Diving Deeper into Portland's Tree Canopy Private-property trees like these Douglas-firs are at risk of removal when lots like this one are developed. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/new-density-laws-mean-for-trees daily 0.75 2021-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1619478495548-9IHDYCNSJWWTM22R0SFZ/Arbor+Lodge%2C+PDX+2021+1-30+%2817%29.JPG What Portland's New Density Laws Mean for Trees Large yard trees like these Douglas-firs are at increased risk of removal if a multiplex comes to this Arbor Lodge lot. All photos by Jim Gersbach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1619478630886-I1VLJDHZBWTM4IHHL36P/IMG_0752.JPG What Portland's New Density Laws Mean for Trees Current new construction often makes trees an afterthought. This lone tiny tree won't do much to shade building residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1619547851275-MHZ8UCIG64QP3LWUZC61/Jim+comparison.jpg What Portland's New Density Laws Mean for Trees A study in contrast, both photos taken in St. John’s. Shouldn't residents in new housing enjoy the health benefits of living next to large trees too? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1619478866852-5X5A3X75T7CKG65FPXOX/Portsmouth+2021+3-21+%2845%29.JPG What Portland's New Density Laws Mean for Trees No room for large trees in these front yards. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/big-tree-loss-concordia daily 0.75 2021-04-27 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/tree-watering-1 daily 0.75 2021-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1623605240240-NUZBQP9JOOZHY00J8VQB/K%2BPark%2Bbucket%2Bgiveaway%2C%2BJuly%2B14%2C%2B2019.jpeg Tree Watering Tips and Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1623605175418-6NE6FNSH5ORYKB79L4M1/Cercidiphyllum%2Bwater%2Bstressed%2B-%2BN.%2BMLK%2BJr.%2BBlvd%2B%281%29.jpg Tree Watering Tips and Events https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/blog-link daily 0.75 2021-08-26 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/landing-bedford daily 0.75 2021-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1630021517693-OD0UTMP6UCFXEULFMLXO/IMG_5185.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52a74d9ae4b0253945d2aee9/1535394848185-CGDDU4QCIRSO4U1270H3/image-asset.jpeg Home - About Find out about our organization, mission, our methods, and the results of our decades of advocacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52a74d9ae4b0253945d2aee9/1535394867157-MTQAOAQPKWQ68DDY1HTW/tumblr_mn8b8sLRb61rkz363o1_1280.jpg Home - Take Action Ready to take the next step? You can become a contributor to our cause, or participate yourself. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/our-desired-tree-code-changes daily 0.75 2021-09-02 https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/big-results-for-big-trees daily 0.75 2022-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/12f9b571-cbd1-417a-b98a-469158417f2c/Screen+Shot+2022-03-17+at+7.01.30+AM.png Big Results for Big Trees When Portland Bureaus Work Together Courtesy of PBOT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/ac1524db-bfb3-4b7e-b722-a02536c93ccd/IMG_6938.JPG Big Results for Big Trees When Portland Bureaus Work Together - Make it stand out The median housing five Douglas-firs; Bridger Elementary is on the left. All photos by Trees for Life Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/158af950-e33b-4afc-abbb-b3cbcaeaa81f/IMG_6928.JPG Big Results for Big Trees When Portland Bureaus Work Together - Make it stand out Large curb extension for sycamore maple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/9cef5033-c1e5-44dd-a000-8fa0f26279da/IMG_6932.JPG Big Results for Big Trees When Portland Bureaus Work Together - Make it stand out SE Mill Street sidewalk designed to preserve this Western redcedar. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/affordable-housing-meets-large-trees-2 daily 0.75 2022-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1608250519142-UWT79Q5Q5EQGQIPH5JK3/Photos+of+Cherry+Blossom+under+construction_Page_1_Image_0001.jpg Where Affordable Housing Meets, and Keeps, Large Trees (Copy) The site, looking west at the Norway maples and north at the conservation zone. Photo: Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1608251925889-DN9O9M87J2NPCMWYXKZE/L6.10_+PLANTING+PLAN+Rev.9+markup+%281%29.jpg Where Affordable Housing Meets, and Keeps, Large Trees (Copy) The Cherry Blossom Drive community planting plan. Courtesy of Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1608347769925-IBQOAPQGL4OF95AMV60I/Habitat+Denney+Gardens+1.jpg Where Affordable Housing Meets, and Keeps, Large Trees (Copy) - A treed natural area may be a kind of luxury for Habitat, he says, “but when we see the opportunity we certainly try and seize it.” Denney Gardens under construction, with the nature corridor on the left. Photo: Habitat for Humanity Willamette West. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1608347874678-TKZI54HI7ZX4ZQN9YEMU/Habitat%2BVance%2BPl%2B2.jpg Where Affordable Housing Meets, and Keeps, Large Trees (Copy) Vance Place's mini-park. Photo: Habitat for Humanity Willamette West. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/a-homeowner-and-arborist-design-an-adu-around-big-trees daily 0.75 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/f9282192-f4bb-4312-86ac-98723e7ca772/ADU+vis+3.png A Homeowner and Arborist Design an ADU Around Big Trees Dearth's ADU. All photos by Chris Dearth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/51ee9600-2ad5-4138-b394-1ea662c4bf4a/ADU+vis+2.jpg A Homeowner and Arborist Design an ADU Around Big Trees - Make it stand out One of the pin pilings supporting the ADU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/b488a718-6c7a-4a08-8ee4-c04a3bad8484/ADU+vis+4.png A Homeowner and Arborist Design an ADU Around Big Trees - Make it stand out The site plan, part of the tree preservation plan that Treecology's Schrosk submitted to the City on Dearth's behalf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/6e6548ff-46e2-4fb1-bd85-2ff697aaa8d8/ADU+vis+1.jpg A Homeowner and Arborist Design an ADU Around Big Trees - Make it stand out From left to right: one of the preserved walnut trees, a Western redcedar, and the ADU. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/designing-for-trees-1 daily 0.75 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1687724122586-TK3IBCKYKH4A1ATRRTFP/Background+header.jpg Designing for Trees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1736802533289-TTMKZR8G3QC0EH2645OA/on%25252Bpavement%25252BPBOT%25252Bsign.jpg Designing for Trees - Partnering to Pilot Curb Extensions for Trees: Portland Models a Way Forward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1687724329146-WT0M782RZ6U9D1DEEWYS/pic+1+ADA.png Designing for Trees - A Homeowner and Arborist Design an AUD Around Big Trees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1687724373923-8098IX74ZOMMDRD46E59/3rd+article+thumbnail.jpg Designing for Trees - Big Results for Big Trees When Portland Bureaus Work Together https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1687724906886-VV0KI078PSESKSA1F52H/photo+fpr+fourth+gallery+item.jpg Designing for Trees - Where Affordable Housing Meets, and Keeps, Large Trees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1687724981569-B909L13CGL9HFDGI9AHQ/tree+friendly+developers.jpg Designing for Trees - Tree-Friendly Developers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1687725047372-WSKMACZQKII04MBNE2G2/tree+concious+design.jpg Designing for Trees - Tree-Conscious Design Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/1687725105530-GX6E7G2K6RYNDI8IM2QH/GBU.jpg Designing for Trees - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/a-homeowner-and-arborist-design-an-adu-around-big-trees-1 daily 0.75 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/f9282192-f4bb-4312-86ac-98723e7ca772/ADU+vis+3.png A Homeowner and Arborist Design an ADU Around Big Trees (Copy) Dearth's ADU. All photos by Chris Dearth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/51ee9600-2ad5-4138-b394-1ea662c4bf4a/ADU+vis+2.jpg A Homeowner and Arborist Design an ADU Around Big Trees (Copy) - Make it stand out One of the pin pilings supporting the ADU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/b488a718-6c7a-4a08-8ee4-c04a3bad8484/ADU+vis+4.png A Homeowner and Arborist Design an ADU Around Big Trees (Copy) - Make it stand out The site plan, part of the tree preservation plan that Treecology's Schrosk submitted to the City on Dearth's behalf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/6e6548ff-46e2-4fb1-bd85-2ff697aaa8d8/ADU+vis+1.jpg A Homeowner and Arborist Design an ADU Around Big Trees (Copy) - Make it stand out From left to right: one of the preserved walnut trees, a Western redcedar, and the ADU. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/partnering-to-pilot-curb-extensions-for-trees-portland-models-a-way-forward daily 0.75 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/c299309b-7ecc-45c5-9fcc-e0feb06250f1/pilot+photo+1.jpg Partnering to Pilot Curb Extensions for Trees: Portland Models a Way Forward - Make it stand out A single-tree curb extension along SE Duke Street. Photos by Trees for Life Oregon unless otherwise noted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/c8c7a67d-6408-4f9a-bf2f-227230ee7ab6/duke_corridor_conceptrecs_v6.png Partnering to Pilot Curb Extensions for Trees: Portland Models a Way Forward - Make it stand out Courtesy of the Portland Department of Transportation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/e672abc9-06b9-4495-893e-a86926831d0e/Director+Park+curb+extensions%2C+via+PBOT.jpeg Partnering to Pilot Curb Extensions for Trees: Portland Models a Way Forward - Make it stand out Curb bump-outs for trees across from Director Park in SW Portland. Photo courtesy of Portland Department of Transportation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/90be67f3-565d-4d3c-8a8d-db8327e3c60d/Trees+in+the+Curb+Zone+PSU+Urban+Heat+Island+draft%2C+PBOT.png Partnering to Pilot Curb Extensions for Trees: Portland Models a Way Forward - Make it stand out Map courtesy of Portland Department of Transportation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/0d76be24-4ac1-4290-8979-5a7ce18bc019/hathorne-pic.jpg Partnering to Pilot Curb Extensions for Trees: Portland Models a Way Forward - Make it stand out The curb bump-out concept as created in the past at SE Hawthorne and 46th. PBOT learned that trees in curb extensions need much more room than this to thrive. Photo courtesy of Portland Department of Transportation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/95619c5b-cd54-46cb-be05-2c302ea5eb76/Duke+St%2C+new+soil+pile.jpg Partnering to Pilot Curb Extensions for Trees: Portland Models a Way Forward - Make it stand out The new soil mix about to go into a curb planter on SE Duke after the original mixture got compacted from the rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5caff9167eb88c5e8d677a35/7f67aa05-a448-48a2-a6b8-780571e5bc9a/tree+coming+soon+sign+photo%2C+triple+planter.jpg Partnering to Pilot Curb Extensions for Trees: Portland Models a Way Forward - Make it stand out This SE Duke Street curb planter will hold three trees.