Coalition for a Stronger Tree Ordinance

The following organizations have endorsed the campaign for a stronger Seattle Tree Protection Ordinance. They support a permit system to remove any tree 6 inches diameter and larger on both private and public land and on developed land and land undergoing development. They support requiring equivalently sized trees be replanted either on site or pay a mitigation fee to cover the cost of the city replanting the tree and maintaining it. The goal is not just a no net loss of canopy but increasing Seattle’s tree canopy over time.

List of Organizations Endorsing the “Action Needed” Letter to Seattle City Council and Mayor Durkan 

Beacon Hill Council
Beacon Food Forest
Broadview/Bitter Lake Community Council
City Fruit
Eastlake Community Council
Faith and Climate Action
Fremont Neighborhood Council
Friends of Bradner Park
Friends of Cheasty Greenspace
Friends of Seattle’s Urban Forest
Greenwood Exceptional Tree Group
Greenwood-Phinney Greenways
GROW
Heron Habitat Helpers
Interurban Trail Tree Preservation Society
Licton-Haller Lake Greenways
One Sustainable Planet
150 Trees and Me
Phinney Ridge Community Council
Plant Amnesty
Plant for the Planet
Seattle Audubon
Seattle Green Spaces Coalition
Seattle Nature Alliance
South Park Neighborhood Association
SUN – Seniors United for Neighborhoods
The Na’ahllahee Fund
Thornton Creek Alliance
TreePAC
Wallingford Community Council
The Wilderness Society
46th LD Democrats

The following groups have written their own letters in support of a stronger tree ordinance:

Heron Habitat Helpers
Lake City Neighbood Alliance
Seattle Audubon Society
Seattle Green Spaces Coalition
Seattle Nature Alliance
Thornton Creek Alliance
Washington Environmental Council