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 ...

City leaders are advancing a proposal to do away with most fees for tree-cutting permits, inspections and appeals as citizen ire grows over the expense, bureaucratic overreach and unequal enforcement ...

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 ...