WHAT: Urban Forestry’s Tree Summit 2025: Tree Stories
WHERE: St. Johns Community Center Auditorium (8427 N Central St)
WHEN: Saturday April 5, 2025 from 9am-Noon
The Tree Summit is a FREE and FUN event, open to the public, for the purpose of increasing education and awareness around the importance of the urban forest.
Register for Tree Summit 2025 - space is limited!
Enjoy a morning full of engaging presentations!
This year the Tree Summit will feature New York Times best-selling author Amy Stewart speaking about her latest book “The Tree Collectors”, a collection of stories about people who have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees.
Dave Hedberg (Outdoor History Consulting), Ryan Gilpin (Nidus Consulting) and Thomas Meinzen (Vanport Placemaking Project) will present on their research to locate trees that may have survived the Vanport flood.
Urban Forestry will share findings from the Street Tree Inventory Project and demonstrate a new interactive Street Tree map and tree data dashboard.
Community partners will be available for a social hour and meet and greet. You’ll have the opportunity to learn about their work to expand and care for our urban forest.
Refreshments will be served. Interpretive services available.
Register for Tree Summit 2025 here - space is limited!
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Portland Parks & Recreation Urban Forestry's mission is to manage and ensure Portland's urban forest infrastructure for current and future generations. Portland’s urban forest consists of 220,000 street trees, 1.2 million park trees, and nearly 3 million private property trees.
Urban Forestry is involved in managing or regulating all of these trees to differing degrees. Urban Forestry staff issue permits for planting, pruning, and removal of all public and some private trees and are on call 24/7 to respond to tree emergencies.
For more information on Urban Forestry at portland.gov/trees.