Local Tree News – May 29, 2023

How wildfire risk is being managed in one WA forest – May 27, SeaTimes

City of Lynnwood releases results of Urban Forest Health Assessment – Lynnwood Today, May 27

Explore newly mapped trails in Seattle’s largest contiguous forest – May 26, SeaTimes

WEST SEATTLE PARKS: New ‘Tree Walk’ in Fauntleroy – West Seattle Blog, May 25

Tree Talk at Senior Center of West Seattle – West Seattle Blog, May 25

Seattle passes new tree ordinance amid calls to tweak legislation – KNKX, May 23

Seattle tree protection ordinance, years in the making, is up for a vote – SeaTimes, May 23

Seattle City Council passes tree ordinance after years of debate – SeaTimes, May 23

Seattle City Council passes new tree ordinance – May 23, Crosscut

Seattle speaks for its trees with overgrown set of new protections – Capitol Hill Blog, May 23

Applications invited for Edmonds Tree Board opening – MyEdmonds News May 22

Seattle’s proposed tree ordinance is the legislative equivalent of a chain saw – SeaTimes, May 19

Can Seattle balance its need for housing with its need for trees? – May 19, KNKX

‘Tree retention evaluation’ — City sorting out how to keep Cal Anderson’s maple trees and fix the sidewalk around the park – Capitol Hill Blog, May 17

Washington slates $50M for trees to shade salmon streams – May 16, Crosscut

Lake Forest Park neighbors denounce bus-lane plan that removes trees – SeaTimes, May 15

Reminder: Second community conversation about tree code updates scheduled May 15 – MyEdmonds News, May 13

Guest editorial: City should reconsider Discovery Park plan – May 11, Queen Anne News

City receives $29,500 grant to plant 100 street trees – MLT News, May 11

Keep funding projects that protect our state’s forests – Kitsap Sun, May 9

Bainbridge’s lip service to climate always yields to growth – Kitsap Sun, May 9

City Council considering more than 50 amendments to Seattle’s tree protections – Capitol Hill Blog, May 4

Living with Trees – Real Change News, May 3 (go Martha Baskin!)

Kubota Garden is a South Seattle gem. Keeping it free is a challenge – SeaTimes, May 2

Every Tree Helps – The Nature Conservancy and Tacoma’s GRIT, May 2

Sherwood state forest: Environmental impact – SeaTimes, April 28

Why must a small Mason County forest be harvested? – Kitsap Sun, April 28

WA budgets $2B to cut greenhouse gas emissions; here’s where money will go – SeaTimes April 27

Climate Action Shoreline: Act Now – Shoreline Area News, April 26

A ‘150-acre wonderland of forest and flowers’ awaits on Bainbridge Island – HeraldNet, April 26

Tell your Seattle City Council to pass strong tree protections – SeaTimes, April 25

Seattle can’t protect its urban forest without a census of its largest trees – SeaTimes, April 20

Careful tree thinning – April 19, Queen Anne News

5 types of all-season crabapples that thrive in the Pacific Northwest – SeaTimes, April 15

A trek into Spring in the mountains of eastern Washington – April 14, KNKX

WA, Seattle launch campaign to plant thousands of urban trees – SeaTimes, April 14

Washington launches new statewide tree-equity collaboration – April 13, Crosscut

Second annual Cherry Blossom Festival a blooming success – DailyUW, April 12

You might be responsible for a Seattle street tree and not know it – April 12, Crosscut

Podcast | Who owns the trees outside your window? – April 12, Crosscut

Forest Service wins Stillaguamish logging suit over conservation group – HeraldNet, April 12

Join the LFP tree board to plant a tree in Horizon View Park Saturday – Shoreline Area News, April 11

MEET JUSTIN URRESTI: TNC WASHINGTON’S WESTERN FORESTER – April 11, TNC

Design review: Tree preservation, parking, and new housing — A 13th Ave project with something for everyone on Capitol Hill – April 10, Capitol Hill Blog

Comment: Mature forests do more for climate, wildlife, water – HeraldNet, April 8

UW cherry blossoms reach peak bloom – SeaTimes, April 6

County zoning plans will destroy rural life in Kitsap – Kitsap Sun, April 4

Balancing the health of its ‘urban forest’ with ‘a critical need for more housing,’ Seattle shaping new tree protections – Capitol Hill Blog, March 30

Seattle Audubon tree petition!

Our friends at Seattle Audubon have put up a great tree petition – please take action and sign the petition!

Protect trees for a climate-resilient city.

The heatwave our region experienced at the end of June 2021 made clear that the deadly impacts of climate change are here. We must act now to improve our resilience and prepare for the future. An equitably distributed and protected urban forest is one of our best hopes for becoming a climate-resilient city. Join us in urging Seattle city leaders to improve urban forest protections today.

Outside City Hall – Saving Myers Way

An alliance of open-space activists and environmental-justice advocates win an important victory

By George Howland Jr – Outside City Hall, July 27, 2016

“You can fight city hall and win!

Earlier this month, the Seattle Green Spaces Coalition (Green Spaces) and TreePAC saved the Myers Way Parcels, 33 acres of open space in the middle of neighborhoods with poor air quality, concentrated poverty and a high number of people of color. Myers is bigger than Madrona Park and Beach (31 acres) and much bigger than Gas Works Park (19 acres).

In order to preserve Myers, the activists had to persuade Mayor Ed Murray to change course. He planned to sell the property to raise $5 million for homeless services. Now he will preserve Myers and find the money to fight homelessness elsewhere.

How did they do it?”

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As Development Booms, Seattle Gives Up On Green Space

By Adiel Kaplan and Investigate West, Seattle Weekly, June 22, 2016

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So-called pavement parks are a growing trend in major American cities and they’re one of the new ways Seattle is looking to increase open space without spending billions

From atop a steep slope above Myers Way in West Seattle, Cass Turnbull peers over a tangle of blackberry bushes. Her perch affords her an exceptional view of the distant Cascades. But her gaze fixes instead on the island of undeveloped acreage more than 100 feet below the blackberries.

“My dream for this area is a nature play area,” Turnbull says, noting the wetlands, slopes, forests, fields and creek below. Her vision: “Kids get to interact with nature and explore.”

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No room for trees in Seattle’s new parks

By Mark Hinshaw – Crosscut, April 26, 2016.

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Ellen Sollod’s “Cloud Veil” at 12th Avenue Square Park. Credit: Seattle Parks & Recreation Credit: Alex Garland

Forget what you think you know about green Seattle parks. A new park just south of Seattle University shows us an important aspect of the future in a more densely developed city.
The recently opened 12th Avenue Square Park is the sort of open space we will likely see more often. It is more like a piazza, surrounded by development — both older and newer, with more buildings to come.<–more–>  Continue reading