Our city and our region can house everyone who wants to live here by offering many types of affordable and attainable housing, and this density can coexist with an abundance of trees and high-quality greenspaces. Here are 4 reasons why arguments against Home in Tacoma 2 fall flat!

By creating pathways for more homes and more trees in the landscape, Home in Tacoma Phase Two could go down as one of the most important environmental and climate actions of our generation. But developers are fighting to remove private property tree protections. It's time to take action so Tacoma implements unified codes that will enable the growth critical infrastructure of trees and “middle housing” at the same time.

Executive Director, Lowell Wyse, explains why the newly approved street tree ordinance will help make Tacoma more resilient in the face of climate change by better regulating tree pruning and removal, allowing fruit trees in the right-of-way, and celebrating heritage trees.

What does Tacoma need to do in order to confront the health threats posed by the urban heat island effect and the overall challenges of climate change? In this post, Executive Director of the Tacoma Tree Foundation, Lowell Wyse, explains the health and environmental effects of urban heat island, how the Foundation and city and county partners are working to confront these challenges, and the urgent steps that leaders and governments must take today to ensure trees are an essential component of urban infrastructure tomorrow.

New buildings are required to plant trees but what happens after they’re planted?

New data from our Branch Out event this February offers a promising look at our impact.

Two proposed projects within a mile of each other, in Fircrest and South Tacoma, highlight how different city policies are affecting tree coverage and quality of life in neighboring communities.

At Tacoma Tree Foundation, we believe that community and trees grow together. South Tacoma will be a neighborhood of focus for us in 2022–2023 thanks to a unique collaboration known as G.R.I.T.: Greening Research in Tacoma.

Tacoma Tree Foundation is getting a boost in the new year thanks to the Puyallup Watershed Initiative (PWI).

On a rainy Monday in October, I loaded an Oregon white oak seedling into the back of my car and headed down the road from Tacoma to Portland. It’s not a host gift I would give to just anyone, but the Garry oak prairies form a biological connection across Cascadia, and I did not want to show up at Friends of Trees empty-handed!

Some good stories start in the middle.
This one starts on a rainy day in February 2019, when I first met Sarah Low in a Tacoma coffee shop. Sarah had recently created the Tacoma Tree Foundation, and I was dying to know more.