Portland's urban forest provides important benefits and services to our community and the environment. The City is updating its plan for managing this important resource.
City of Portland Urban Forestry is hiring 10 seasonal staff to conduct data collection for an ongoing Inventory of Street Trees in Portland (May-October). Pay is $24/hr. To apply: tinyurl.com/UFInventory Spend your summer working with our team!
You still have time to get 2 free trees for your yard!
Go to Portland.gov/freeyardtrees to register.
All trees will be delivered to you!
Species include Oregon white oak, Silver linden, European hornbeam, Willamette Valley ponderosa pine, London planetree, dawn redwood and more!
Our Yard Tree Giveaway program is giving away 2,000 trees to anyone within city limits this fall. To register or to learn more about the Yard Tree Giveaway program visit portland.gov/free-yard-trees.
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Listen to an interview with Judy BlueHorse Skelton who is a professor at Portland State University. Focuses on Indigenous Ecological knowledge in the Oak Savana landscape that was once common in the Portland area and her work to revive that ecosystem tinyurl.com/2x8t5pj4