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www.PortlandParks.orgwww.PortlandParks.orgCommissioner Jim Francecsconi

Director Zari Santner

Street Tree Inventory Project

www.PortlandParks.org Commissioner Amanda Fritz

Director Mike Abbaté

Urban Forestry

www.PortlandParks.org

City of Portland Urban Forestry

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=xq2bTaile0-PCM&tbnid=slgc1bYBXahEJM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/trees-the-new-sewers/&ei=g21TUdjBBcK0iwKrtYHgCg&bvm=bv.44442042,d.cGE&psig=AFQjCNGb61t5UaOHgGaSmEdrKVE0rFuK4A&ust=1364507991408496


Street Tree Inventory

www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/treeinventory


Street Tree Inventory

2010-2016

1,100+ volunteers

17,500 hours


Most Jade District street

trees are in cutouts


Larger trees: private

property, parking lots


Large trees: a good

investment

Many times more benefits

than small trees


Trees in Commercial Districts

Shoppers

• Prefer areas with trees

• Travel a greater distance

• Spend more time

• Willing to spend 9-12%

more for goods

Wolf, K.L. 2010. Community Economics - A Literature Review. In: Green Cities: Good Health

(www.greenhealth.washington.edu). College of the Environment, University of Washington.


Zelkova

Ginkgo

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