Dear Friends:

The chains have come for our towering Douglas Fir Trees today at 7301 SW 26th Avenue. The builder got their final permit to take down 12 trees on this property, including 7 large Douglas Fir Trees. This is a pocket of Multnomah Village surrounded by a rare, interconnected grove of towering Douglas Fir Trees, including a 100-year-old Mother Tree, that is over 60 inches in diameter.

As a reminder, the developer purchased the 10,000 square foot property—an original homestead land, which has had only one small home on it and with only one family, for decades. It’s now been divided into two 5,000 square foot lots to make room for 2 3,000 square foot homes. TODAY, these towering trees, but for a few, will be cut down, including the Mother Tree.

Let’s raise our voices today!

Please send a polite email to Mayor Ted Wheeler & Portland City Council incorporating in these key points:

- Please save Multnomah Village's Mother Tree!

-We need to slow down clear cutting of these large, formed trees, driving our big trees out of their rightful place, when there are other ways for new houses to share these lots and spare their needless removal.
- Ornamental trees (termed replacements) do not do the job of a Douglas Fir, towering at 100 feet with enormous mass and carbon offset, getting us to the city’s zero emissions objective.
- Scientists estimate just one Douglas Fir sequesters almost 14 tons of carbon in the first 100 years!
- These large trees are superheroes in fighting climate change; climate change is here and the large trees we cut down today will determine the temperatures of our neighborhood, sidewalks, and streets in the years ahead.
- Critically important, these large-formed trees sequester carbon, and shelter Portland’s birds, wildlife, insects, and humans who live in under their massive bows.
- These few large trees in Portland will determine our livability. There aren’t that many more, and when they’re gone, they are gone. The tree inventory, conducted in recent years on public land and trees on right away showed a disturbing fact:  How few big trees are still standing.
- That’s why we are asking the City of Portland to take immediate action to preserve these long-standing, interconnected trees today.
 

Mayor Wheeler and Portland City Council Email Addresses!

mayorwheeler@portlandoregon.gov

Comm.Rubio@portlandoregon.gov

CommissionerRyanOffice@portlandoregon.gov

joann@portlandoregon.gov

MappsOffice@portlandoregon.gov