Hello ENVS,
Save the Giants is collaborating with Friends of Trees in organizing an urban tree advocacy workshop scheduled Friday November 4 from 5:30-8:30 pm.
Please join us for a dinner with speakers and the following workshop goals:
- Share rapid response strategies to save trees under threat
- Share tools for pro-active efforts to preserve healthy trees & expand the urban canopy in our communities
- Share history, revisions and strengths / weaknesses of Portland’s tree code
- Discuss opportunities to support future urban forestry policy reforms that incentivize or require preservation of large healthy trees
Speakers:
- Scott Fogarty (Director, Friends of Trees)
- Vivek Shandas (PSU Sustaining Urban Places Research Lab)
- Arthur Bradford (Save the Giants)
- Jenn Cairo (City Forester)
- Jim Labbe (Portland 2016 Bill Naito Community Trees Award recipient)
Sponsored by: Save the Giants, Friends of Trees, East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District
The event is free and dinner will be provided but space is limited, so please register here!
Location:
Taborspace
5411 SE Belmont Street
Portland, Oregon 97215