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Causes: Arts & Culture, Botanical Gardens & Arboreta, Environment, Natural History & Natural Science Museums, Parks & Playgrounds
Mission: To maintain and improve hoyt arboretum and its collection for all people through advocacy, resources, awareness and education.
Programs: Education and visitor services: 350,000 people visit and use hoyt arboretum each year. Haff provides services so that visitors can see, understand, and appreciate over 6,000 special trees and find their way along 12 miles of trails covering 189 acres. These services include free maps and brochures, a website, staffed visitor center, plant reference library, interpretive signs, events, and volunteer programs, including volunteer tree maintenance. In 2017 the hoyt arboretum friends doubled the number of school children who participated in our field trip program and served schools from all around the portland region.
trees & trails: haff pays for a variety of maintenance and capital improvements for the trees and trails including new trees and plantings, basic gardening and tree care, trail restoration, tree collection renovations, and scientific record-keeping.