Donate
Blogroll
links
- Center for Biological Diversity
- City Fruit
- Don't Clearcut Seattle
- Earthcorps
- Forterra
- Friends of Seattle's Urban Forest
- Green Cities: Good Health
- King Conservation District – Urban Forests
- King County – 1,000,000 Trees
- Meeting of the Minds – Urban Forests
- MRSC – Urban Forestry
- Plant Amnesty
- SDOT – Trees and Lasndscaping
- Seattle Audubon
- Seattle Green Spaces Coalition
- Seattle Nature Alliance
- Seattle Parks-Urban Forest Restoration
- Seattle Urban Forestry Commission
- the last 6,000
- The Nature Conservancy
- The Wilderness Society – Washington
- Thornton Creek Alliance
- Trees for Seattle
- Urban and Community Forestry – WA -DNR
- Washington Conservation Voters
- Washington Environmental Council
- Washington Native Plant Society
Category Archives: tree planting
Seattle City Council Passes Legislation to Remove SEPA Appeals
The Seattle City Council just passed legislation to limit SEPA appeals by Seattle citizens on upzones for housing. It took them only 3 months to pass this legislation giving more authority to the Departmental of Construction and Inspections to fast … Continue reading
Posted in Seattle Tree Protection Ordinance, tree canopy, tree planting, tree preservation, urban forest, urban forest management, urban trees
Tagged Seattle City Council, SEPA Regulations Seattle, Tree Regulations Research Project, UFC draft Tree and Urban Forest Protection Ordinance, www.DontClearcutSeattle.org
Leave a comment
Tree PAC Question sent to Seattle City Council Primary Candidates 2019
Dear Candidate for Seattle City Council, In 2009 the Seattle City Council passed a resolution to update SMC 25.11 the Tree Protection Ordinance. Ten years later this has not happened. But progress is being made. When the MHA Ordinance was … Continue reading
Seattle Tree and Urban Forest Ordinance Update – Handout July 2019
Action Needed Now to Protect Seattle’s Trees and Urban Forest Urge Mayor Jenny Durkan and Seattle City Council members to provide strong leadership now to pass legislation this year to significantly strengthen Seattle’s current Tree Protection Ordinance. Seattle’s urban forest … Continue reading
Good News – Tree Protection Ordinance Update this Year is a GO!
Coalition for a Stronger Tree Ordinance Dear Tree Protection Advocates, We have passed a big hurdle. On Wednesday Councilmember Sally Bagshaw came to the Seattle Urban Forestry Commission. She told the Commission that she met with Mayor Jenny Durkan on Monday. Mayor … Continue reading
Posted in Coalition for a Stronger Tree Ordinance, Seattle Tree Protection Ordinance, tree canopy, tree planting, tree preservation, urban forest, urban trees
Tagged Councilmember Sally Bagshaw, Mayor Jenny Durkan, Seattle Tree Ordinance Update, SMC 25.11 Seattle Ttree Protection Ordinance
Leave a comment
Movement forward on Updating Seattle’s Tree Protection Ordinance – April Action
Letter requesting organizations to join Coalition for a Stronger Tree Ordinance Seattle City Councilmember Rob Johnson has introduced a framework to update Seattle’s current Tree Ordinance. This is something many citizens and organizations have been urging for almost 10 years. We would … Continue reading
Seattle Mayor Tim Burgess Signs Executive Order to Increase Tree Protection
From This Week in the Mayor’s Office – Oct 13, 2017 Protecting Seattle’s Tree Canopy Mayor Burgess signed an Executive Order focused on strengthening Seattle’s protections for trees on private property today. The order directs the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections … Continue reading
As Development Booms, Seattle Gives Up On Green Space
By Adiel Kaplan and Investigate West, Seattle Weekly, June 22, 2016 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 … Continue reading
No room for trees in Seattle’s new parks
By Mark Hinshaw – Crosscut, April 26, 2016. 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Parks, tree planting, TreePAC, urban trees
Tagged Crosscut, Seattle Parks, trees
Leave a comment