Growing Gifts for Moms, Dads & Grads

Honor Friends, Family & the Earth

Apr 15, 2008

Contact: Teri Ruch
503-282-8846 ext. 17; terir@friendsoftrees.org

You can honor your friends, family and the earth with a gift tree for Mother's Day, Father's Day, Earth Day or graduation. Choose from four styles of cards and personalize your message. Friends of Trees' gift trees cost $25 for a young native tree or $50 for a grove of six young native trees.

At the time of your purchase, Friends of Trees will mail a gift acknowledgment card to the person receiving your gift. You and the gift recipient will also receive invitations to our annual commemorative planting to plant your trees personally if you wish. Gift trees are tax-deductible. To place your order, go to "give now" at www.FriendsofTrees.org or call 503-282-8846 ext. 17.

Since 1989, Friends of Trees has led thousands of volunteers in planting more than 360,000 trees and native plants in the Portland-Vancouver metro area. This has helped increase Portland's tree canopy during recent decades when a dozen major U.S. cities lost about a quarter of their tree cover.

Nobel Laureate Al Gore often points out that planting trees slows climate change. In addition, a recent Portland Parks & Recreation City Nature-Urban Forestry study revealed that our city trees intercept 25 million pounds of air pollutants and half a billion gallons of stormwater a year, greatly reducing river pollution. And a U.S. Forest Service study released this March shows the benefits of planting trees in Portland neighborhoods outweigh the cost by ten to one.

For more information about gift trees or Friends of Trees, visit www.FriendsofTrees.org.