Maine BSLA Reception in honor of Jeff Tarling

4 Canal Plaza,Portland ME 04101

15 March, 2023

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The Maine section of BSLA invites all in our larger landscape architecture and design community to join us for a fun evening.Bring a coworker, family, friends, and help us celebrate Portland city arborist Jeff Tarling. . Through his 34 years of service as the arborist for the City of Portland, Jeff Tarling “has overseen the planting of thousands of trees, built nearly a dozen community gardens, visited schools across the city and led the cleanup after major storms.” He oversaw “management of city trees and horticulture at parks, playgrounds, schools and other public property. He manage[d] 27 employees and also review[ed] site plans from a landscape perspective." Read more about Jeff Tarling’s work in caring for the trees of the "Forest City" in the Portland Press Herald and the Portland Phoenix. Tarling retired at the end of January. Please join BSLA at Novare Res (4 Canal Street, Portland) to cheer this extraordinary career. Members + non-members, colleagues and friends, all are welcome! Space is limited -- sign up today. . . THANK YOU to michael boucher landscape architecture for sponsoring this reception. Photo credits + captions. At top: Jeff Tarling stands beside an oak tree in Kennedy Park in November, 2021. Tarling will retire at the end of January after 34 years as the city's arborist. (Portland Phoenix/Jim Neuger) Above: Portland arborist Jeff Tarling looks over a Japanese White Pine in the conifer section of the Longfellow Arboretum at Payson Park in January. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald) Below: Portland arborist Jeff Tarling stands near one of his favorite trees, a sugar maple on the Eastern Prom, on Jan. 17. Tarling is retiring from his job caring for the trees in the “Forest City” after more than 30 years. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald)