Life After Tree Inventory Inspiring Community Stewardship- Angie Di'Salvo
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Life After Tree Inventory Inspiring Community Stewardship
Alliance For Community Trees Day November 15, 2016
[email protected] www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/treeinventory
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Portland, Oregon’s Volunteer Tree Inventory218,610 trees inventoried from 2010-20161,400 volunteers 17,000 hours volunteered
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• Inequitable distribution• Overly reliant on Acer
and Prunus• Low diversity• Few evergreens• Few trees >24” DBH• Many large sites
planted with small trees
Key Findings
c27% of Portland’s street trees are maples
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• Planting lists updated early in the project
• Inventory migrated to asset management system
• Plan to re-inventory every ten years
• Data informs strategies and plans
• Resources allocated to low canopy and low income areas
Policy Changes
20 evergreen species added to lists and maples removed
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• Development of citywide planting strategy
• Increase in strategic partnerships
• Resource allocation revisited
• Addressing funding for maintenance
Equitable Canopy Distribution
Grant Park
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• >20 Tree Teams nurtured• Ongoing event partnerships via
“Workshop Menu”
Inspiring Community Stewardship
• Seed money and resources for small projects
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Challenges• Maintaining long term
momentum• Trees and technical
knowledge are the easy part (people are more challenging!)
• Developing trust• Engaging underrepresented
communities• Addressing lack of
resources and need for maintenance funding
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Success Stories• Neighborhood Tree Plans
created• School, park, private tree
plantings• Young tree pruning events• Neighborhood specific
planting lists• Heritage Tree nominations• Increased volunteer
engagementVolunteers prune >1600 young trees pruned each year
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Cherry tree replacement in Albina