The city of Bend’s code to protect trees from development is on the line as an affordable housing developer mounts a legal argument that the new regulations infringe on state law. The public has a two ...

Nearly one year after Bend passed an ordinance to preserve the city’s tree canopy from development, the policy is at work. The result: nearly 1,500 trees will be torn down to make room for a large ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A group of organizations and businesses announced Wednesday they have joined in a legal action by Pahlisch Homes to require the City of Bend to pause the implementation of a new ...

Portland’s policy watchdog is calling out the city’s “confusing” and “poorly written” code on tree removal, saying the City Council’s refusal to clean it up has unfairly burdened homeowners. On ...

In 2019, a group of community advocates, industry groups, businesses and homeowners lobbied the city to soften parts of the Tree Code, which they said was inflexible and overly punitive and allowed ...

Thistle & Nest, an affordable housing provider in Bend, says the city’s new tree code isn’t flexible enough and is raising the cost of building new housing in Central Oregon. At one of the affordable ...

Portland Parks & Recreation is eliminating or reducing most tree permit fees starting in July – part of an effort to fix the intensely negative public perception of the city’s tree code and the Urban ...

A new paper published today (April 24) in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew presents the most up-to-date understanding of the ...