Heritage Tree #322 | St. Johns’ Horse Chestnut

Heritage Tree #322 | St. Johns’ Horse Chestnut

By Annie Amsden :: Aesculus hippocastanum — Common horsechestnut 8710 N Willamette Blvd The Horse Chestnut tree on the corner of North Alta and Willamette Boulevard stands 65 feet tall and casts shadows onto the sidewalk below it. The tree, approximately 150 years old, witnessed the expansion of North Portland. Prior to European settlement in theContinue Reading Heritage Tree #322 | St. Johns’ Horse Chestnut

Heritage Tree #272 | Lents’ Oregon White Oak

Heritage Tree #272 | Lents’ Oregon White Oak

By Carolee Harrison :: Quercus garryana — Oregon white oak 5559 SE 109th Ave Portland’s 272nd Heritage Tree, an Oregon white oak, is a street tree that shades a residential block in the Lents neighborhood. It also stands on the edge of Johnson Creek’s historic floodplain, where suburban housing, industrial sites, and protected public landsContinue Reading Heritage Tree #272 | Lents’ Oregon White Oak

Heritage Tree #260 | Powell Butte’s Old Growth Douglas Fir

Heritage Tree #260 | Powell Butte’s Old Growth Douglas Fir

  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

Heritage Tree #235 | Charles Jordan Community Center’s Butternut Tree

Heritage Tree #235 | Charles Jordan Community Center’s Butternut Tree

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

Tree Investigators! | Activities designed to experience your neighborhood through trees

Tree Investigators! | Activities designed to experience your neighborhood through trees

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