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 ...

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 ...

Bend’s tree preservation ordinance should save trees without seriously hurting the ability to meet housing needs. That may not be its precise purpose, but it’s our view of what its purpose should be.