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City of Seattle and King County Resources
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City of Seattle and King County Resources
- Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections complaints (for reporting illegal or suspicious tree cutting in your neighborhood) – 206-615-0808
- Trees for Neighborhoods (free street and yard trees available)
- "Identifying Potentially Development-Threatened Tree Canopy in Environmental Justice Priority Areas," an analysis by Birds Connect Seattle
- "SDCI Failures Report: investigative report on SDCI's failure to protect Seattle's tree canopy," an evidence-based report by Tree Action Seattle and Kersti Muul
- 2021 City of Seattle Tree Canopy Assessment
MEDIA ARTICLES
"More concrete, less green: A cautionary tale about upzoning from South Park" by Alex Fryer, Seattle Times, 1/24/2025
"Seattle claims to 'protect' hundreds of trees that were never threatened" by Robert McClure, InvestigateWest, 1/20/2025
"More paving, fewer trees. So much for a green 'One Seattle'" by the Seattle Times editorial board, 12/5/2024
"Seattle's tree ordinance is endangering trees, not protecting them" by Sandy Shettler and Jessica Dixon, Seattle Times, 5/8/2024
“The Pacific Northwest trees shaped by generations of people” by Lynda Mapes, Seattle Times, 11/12/23
“Inside the tumultuous debate behind Seattle’s tree ordinance” by Eric Scigliano, Crosscut, 9/3/23
“Yes, Seattle, we can have both housing and trees” by Naomi Ishisaka, Seattle Times, 8/14/23
“Speaking up for our people’s culturally modified trees” by Jaime Martin, Steven Moses and Matthew Randazzo V, Seattle Times, 8/11/23
“Saving Seattle’s heritage trees (but at the expense of losing many others?)” by Eric Scigliano, Post Alley, 7/25/23
“Op-Ed: Save Luma the giant cedar from redevelopment” by Jordan Van Voast, The Urbanist, 7/20/23
“How developers helped shape Seattle’s controversial tree protection ordinance” by Eric Scigliano, InvestigateWest,7/19/23
“Seattle’s proposed tree ordinance is the legislative equivalent of a chain saw” by the Seattle Times Editorial Board, 5/19/23
“Seattle has a Green Lake-sized hole in its tree canopy, study shows” by Hannah Weinberger, Crosscut, 3/2/23
“Health benefits of trees” by the Nature Conservancy in Washington, 6/8/21
ESSAYS
“Reciprocity: trees and people” by June BlueSpruce, Catamaran Literary Reader, Fall 2022 Issue
Desegregating wilderness" by Jourdan Imani Keith, Orion Magazine,September 2014
"More concrete, less green: A cautionary tale about upzoning from South Park" by Alex Fryer, Seattle Times, 1/24/2025
"Seattle claims to 'protect' hundreds of trees that were never threatened" by Robert McClure, InvestigateWest, 1/20/2025
"More paving, fewer trees. So much for a green 'One Seattle'" by the Seattle Times editorial board, 12/5/2024
"Seattle's tree ordinance is endangering trees, not protecting them" by Sandy Shettler and Jessica Dixon, Seattle Times, 5/8/2024
“The Pacific Northwest trees shaped by generations of people” by Lynda Mapes, Seattle Times, 11/12/23
“Inside the tumultuous debate behind Seattle’s tree ordinance” by Eric Scigliano, Crosscut, 9/3/23
“Yes, Seattle, we can have both housing and trees” by Naomi Ishisaka, Seattle Times, 8/14/23
“Speaking up for our people’s culturally modified trees” by Jaime Martin, Steven Moses and Matthew Randazzo V, Seattle Times, 8/11/23
“Saving Seattle’s heritage trees (but at the expense of losing many others?)” by Eric Scigliano, Post Alley, 7/25/23
“Op-Ed: Save Luma the giant cedar from redevelopment” by Jordan Van Voast, The Urbanist, 7/20/23
“How developers helped shape Seattle’s controversial tree protection ordinance” by Eric Scigliano, InvestigateWest,7/19/23
“Seattle’s proposed tree ordinance is the legislative equivalent of a chain saw” by the Seattle Times Editorial Board, 5/19/23
“Seattle has a Green Lake-sized hole in its tree canopy, study shows” by Hannah Weinberger, Crosscut, 3/2/23
“Health benefits of trees” by the Nature Conservancy in Washington, 6/8/21
ESSAYS
“Reciprocity: trees and people” by June BlueSpruce, Catamaran Literary Reader, Fall 2022 Issue
Desegregating wilderness" by Jourdan Imani Keith, Orion Magazine,September 2014