Seattle Trees in the News
Luma the Cedar is Saved - KUOW, August 9, 2023
Saving Seattle’s Heritage Trees (But at the Expense of Losing Many Others?) - Post Alley, July 25, 2023
How Developers Helped Shape Seattle's Controversial Tree Protection Ordinance - Investigate West, July 19, 2023
Big Seattle tree spared from axe — for now — as neighbors, tribe rally - Seattle Times, July 14, 2023
Mourning the Loss of a Majestic Western Red Cedar - Seattle Times, July 13, 2023
Seattle can’t protect its urban forest without a census of its largest trees - Seattle Times, April 20, 2023
OPINION | We Must Get Seattle’s Updated Tree Ordinance Right to Protect Community Well-Being - South Seattle Emerald, April 17, 2023
In West Seattle, crusade saves old tree from city's chain saw, The Seattle Times, June 3, 2022
The future of a large multi-trunk horse chestnut tree on Fauntleroy Way SW remains uncertain, Westside Seattle, April 25, 2022
Seward Park Neighbors Come Together to Save an "Exceptional" Tree - South Seattle Emerald, March 10, 2022
Treeless in Seattle? - US News & Report, January 3, 2020
The Last 6,000 initiative is on a mission to find and chronicle Seattle’s most majestic trees - Seattle Times, September 28, 2019
The Last 6000 Project Maps Seattle's "Exceptional" Trees - Seattle Magazine, September 7, 2019
Is one of Seattle's 'Last 6000' exceptional trees in your yard? - KING 5, June 18, 2019
Saving Seattle's last 'exceptional' trees means getting to know them - Crosscut, May 21, 2019
Arbor quest: Can you help find Seattle’s ‘Last 6,000’ majestic trees? - Seattle Times, April 26, 2019
It has a story to tell: How a descendant of Napoleon's willow tree took root on a Seattle hillside - Seattle Times, October 29, 2018
Other Media
Seattle United: Fix the Tree Ordinance, 2023
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