News Neighborhood activists will hold a memorial ceremony in on Sunday, March 3, for the giant sequoia that the city chopped down last week in Pier Park in St. Johns to make way for a pedestrian and bicycle bridge.The memorial is being organized by Chris Fountain, the woman arrested last week for crossing police lines to save the sequoia. She says the ceremony, which starts at 3 pm Sunday, is "kind of a ...   More

News  The City of Portland this morning began cutting down a 12-story sequoia tree in Pier Park in St. Johns to make way for a bicycle and pedestrian bridge, despite a week-long effort by neighborhood activists to save it.Portland Police arrested one of those activists this morning at 10 am, after she crossed a police line around the tree, which is 120 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference. More than ...   More

News A small but vehement protest over cutting down a sequoia tree to build a bicycle and pedestrian bridge has drawn a large contingent of City Hall to St. Johns' Pier Park this afternoon. Mayor Charlie Hales' office has been barraged with phone calls since television news stations broke the story that a handful of neighborhood activists are refusing to let the tree be cut down.More than a dozen city employees ...   More