Milwaukie named top Tree City statewide April 07 2021
Oregon Community Trees award recognizes city s efforts to ensure its urban forest provides wide range of benefits.
Milwaukie has been named Oregon s Tree City of the Year for 2021, an award commending the city for the top commitment to its urban forest among communities statewide.
Oregon Community Trees President Samantha Wolf said the award is intended to highlight a city for delivering the best urban forestry practices to its residents, and each year OCT partners with Oregon Department of Forestry officials to select one of Oregon s nationally recognized Tree City USA cities for special accolades.
Milwaukie named top Tree City statewide April 07 2021
Oregon Community Trees award recognizes city s efforts to ensure its urban forest provides wide range of benefits.
Milwaukie has been named Oregon s Tree City of the Year for 2021, an award commending the city for the top commitment to its urban forest among communities statewide.
Oregon Community Trees President Samantha Wolf said the award is intended to highlight a city for delivering the best urban forestry practices to its residents, and each year OCT partners with Oregon Department of Forestry officials to select one of Oregon s nationally recognized Tree City USA cities for special accolades.
Gov. Kate Brown proclaims April as Oregon Arbor Month
April has been proclaimed Oregon Arbor Month.
Gov. Kate Brown made a proclamation last week establishing a monthlong recognition of trees and planting as a result of more than a year of collaboration with nonprofit organizations and state agencies, but its timing follows statewide wildfires that burned millions of trees. Because trees are vital to our individual and communal well-being and future prosperity and because all Oregonians have a stake in future health and replenishment of our urban and rural forests there should be more than a single day or week to participate in tree-related activities, reflect on the vital contribution of trees on our individual and communal well-being and honor and celebrate the tree stewardship of our local leaders and volunteers in Oregon s more than 60 Tree Cities a Tree Campuses USA, the proclamation reads.
April proclaimed Arbor Month in Oregon
Oregon Dept. of Forestry
Portlanders plant trees in the Roseway Park Blocks
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) The first week in April was just not enough time to show how much Oregonians appreciate trees. So Gov. Kate Brown has proclaimed all of April as Oregon Arbor Month, allowing plenty of time for all the tree-related activities and commemorative plantings people want.
“I appreciate Governor Brown declaring April 2021 as Oregon Arbor Month, in recognition of the essential role trees play in the lives of Oregonians,” said Oregon State Forester Peter Daugherty. “There has long been a broad understanding of the economic and environmental benefits of our forestlands, but this proclamation helps highlight the equally vital social benefits that both rural and urban forests provide to the people of Oregon.”