To many music fans, the bestselling lounge/world music ensemble Pink Martini is the pride of Portland. But to Pink Martini vocalist extraordinaire China Forbes, the pride of Portland may in fact be the city’s celebrated tree canopy.Forbes will appear in a Friends of Trees ad in the Sept. 7 issue of the Sunday Oregonian, in […]
My Douglas fir reaches acrooooossss the room
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I drink your milkshake! But I wouldn’t be able to drink it through a 350-foot straw.Neither could Daniel Day-Lewis.And as it turns out, neither could a Douglas fir tree – at least, not according to researchers led by Jean-Christophe Domec of North Carolina State University.They conducted a study which posits that the maximum height of […]
Friends of trees join Friends of Trees board
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Buley, Nilsen join Friends of Trees board of directorsTwo members of the OAN have been appointed to the board of directors for Friends of Trees, a Portland-based nonprofit that supports urban tree planting along streets and in natural areas.Nancy Buley is the marketing and communications director at J. Frank Schmidt & Son Nursery. She joined […]
Asian longhorned beetle found in Illinois, Massachusetts
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It’s long. It’s distinctive. And it chews dime-sized holes in many species of hardwood trees so that it can lay eggs in them, perpetuating a cycle that leads to infestation and the death of the tree.USDA officials are mobilizing a response after confirming the presence of the Asian longhorned beetle in Worcester, Mass. A resident […]
Emerald ash borer found in two states
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For the first time, the emerald ash borer has been detected in Missouri, as well as in Wisconsin. The adult borer doesn’t cause much harm to trees, but in larvae form, it’s a whole different story. The borer larvae consume the inner bark of ash trees, disrupting their vascular systems and causing them to dehydrate […]
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