By Jason Nguyen, KATU News :: Thursday, August 24th 2017 Source: Using Trees to tell Portland’s History | KATU PORTLAND, Ore. — Walk through any of Portland’s neighborhoods and you’re bound to see some towering trees breaching the skyline. A Portland State University project is documenting the history of some of the city’s oldest residents onContinue Reading Using Trees to tell Portland’s History | KATU
Tim Becker and KOIN 6 News Staff :: Published: August 24, 2017, 11:20 am Updated: August 24, 2017, 5:52 pm Source: Website helps preserve Portland trees, collect stories PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Every tree has a story. And now, thanks to a new website, people can easily share and tell those stories. Researchers at Portland State University haveContinue Reading Website helps preserve Portland trees, collect stories | KOIN 6
By Madelyn Miller :: Heritage Tree #260 Pseudotsuga menziesii – Douglas-fir Powell Butte Nature Park | Cedar Grove Trail Before being purchased by City of Portland in 1925, the primary users of what’s now Powell Butte Nature Park were a handful of wayward cows from the adjacent Meadowland Dairy and the occasional picnicking family.Continue Reading Heritage Tree #260 | Powell Butte’s Old Growth Douglas Fir
By John Stedman :: Juglans cinerea — Butternut 9009 N Foss Ave Heritage Tree #235 is a Butternut on the grounds of the Charles Jordan Community Center in North Portland’s Portsmouth neighborhood. The tree towers over the single story wing of the community center with its fifty-four foot height and sixty-five foot spread. Its gnarledContinue Reading Heritage Tree #235 | Charles Jordan Community Center’s Butternut Tree
By Danielle Horn :: Heritage Tree # 175-176 Quercus rubra – Northern red oak 175-176 SE Powell Blvd (PP&R, Powell Park) Heritage Trees number 175 and 176 are large Northern Red Oaks on the edge of the Brooklyn Neighborhood park and playfield, Powell Park, providing welcome shade in the summer and beautiful red leaves inContinue Reading Heritage Trees #175-176 | Powell Park Oaks
By Nick Truman :: Heritage Tree # 80-88 Pterocarya fraxinifolia – Caucasian wingnut 80 2737 NE 15th Ave 81 2738 NE 15th Ave 82 2739 NE 15th Ave 83 2740 NE 15th Ave 84 2741 NE 15th Ave 85 1408 NE Knott 86 1409 NE Knott 87 1410 NE Knott 88 1411 NE Knott OnContinue Reading Heritage Trees #80-88 | Knott Street Caucasian Wingnuts
By JoAnne Hermens :: Heritage Tree # 31 Juglans nigra – Black walnut 7703 SE Martins In Southeast Portland amidst modest houses with pleasant green yards, stands a 90 foot tall and 90 foot wide black walnut tree. An aerial view shows its canopy reaching across 77th Avenue, away from the two story white woodenContinue Reading Heritage Tree #31 | Black Walnut
By Annie Amsden, Danielle Horn, and JoAnne Hermens :: Our group decided to make podcasts about the Portland Heritage Trees to provide a fun, easy introduction to this little-known aspect of our city life. These podcasts add to the collection created by students in course in 2015. We hope that making local history available inContinue Reading Heritage Tree Podcasts
By Ella Weil, Nick Truman, & John Stedman :: Tree Investigators! is a workbook that can be used in elementary schools, community centers, and in homeschool education with a goal to engage students in first through fifth grade in gaining awareness and appreciation of Portland Park and Recreation’s Heritage Trees. We believe that HeritageContinue Reading Tree Investigators! | Activities designed to experience your neighborhood through trees
By Carolee Harrison, Madelyn Miller, Sean Van Walchren, and Jeneveve Winchell :: Creating public history in an age of apps and handheld devices presents a unique opportunity to allow participants to get up close and personal with the spaces they’re learning about. What better way to teach the history of some of Portland’s historic treesContinue Reading Portland Heritage Tree Geocache Series