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With more than 730 kinds of trees on Seattle streets, the Emerald City has one of the most diverse collections in the United States. Our street tree population 一 largely trees that grow in ...
The debut of “Street Trees of Seattle: An Illustrated Walking Guide” will be celebrated with an author event on Wednesday, April 17 at 7:00 p.m. at Elliott Bay Book Company, and a series of ...
A Seattle writer has turned her fascination with street trees into a new book. Arts and culture correspondent Brangien Davis introduces us to Taha Ebrahimi, author of "Street Trees in Seattle." ...
SEATTLE CITY Arborist Nolan Rundquist has been in charge of Seattle’s street trees for 15 years. He started out pruning trees in Lincoln, Neb., and still has the Midwesterner’s love ...
The 100 block of Pike Street is slated for a sidewalk redesign, which means the cherry blossom trees that line this street have to go. Seattle officials wanted to replace them with hybrid elms ...
Because of the added stress, Larson believes it's time to stop planting birches as street trees in Seattle. They can still survive in the city near a stream, or where someone gives them extra care.
As Seattle begins to consider its next comprehensive plan, we ask the development community and urban forest advocacy groups to commit to a “Trees and” approach instead. We must protect more ...
Apr. 14—Officials with the state and city of Seattle on Thursday launched a renewed effort to plant trees in urban areas most affected by pollution, flooding and other extreme weather events ...
Tree advocates have been complaining for years that the city needs to do a better job of conserving its canopy of trees, which has declined over the decades because of development. The city has ...
“Street Trees of Seattle” was born out of Ebrahimi’s pandemic-era goal to learn more about her environment. Filled with maps, diagrams and short, digestible explanations of the histories of ...
Editor's note: Taha Ebrahimi has previously contributed to The Seattle Times. SEATTLE — With more than 730 kinds of trees on Seattle streets, the Emerald City has one of the most diverse ...