The Tacoma Tree Foundation invites you to join them for "Where the Forest Meets the Sea", a tree walk January 20th, 11-12, to precede NW Sinfonietta’s Sky & Sea Concert. Is the rustling of leaves in the wind music to your ears? It is to NW Sinfonietta and the Tacoma Tree Foundation! This is why > Continue Reading
The Tacoma Tree Foundation is offering a FREE Tree Stewards Training January 27th from 10-3, as part of our Green Blocks: Parkland-Spanaway program. This 5-hour training will include information on tree selection, planting, and pruning young trees. Participants will also learn how to communicate about trees with their neighbors and how to engage in the > Continue Reading
Join us for a presentation by the Tacoma Tree Foundation. Presenters will explain urban heat island effect, how urban forests impact health outcomes and environmental health, and how individuals and communities can grow a greener future for all.
Tacoma Tree Foundation invites you to the Hilltop Community Tree Share February 17th from 10-2pm. The tree share is open to the general public from 12-2 and requires no registration. A healthy tree cover is crucial for our climate well-being. In partnership with the Tacoma Tree Foundation, the Shalom Project is exploring direct-action and advocacy > Continue Reading
Tacoma Tree Foundation invites to to join Sarah Low for a talk Wednesday, February 21 from 12:30-1:30PM at the Tacoma Public Library Swasey Branch. During this talk with Sarah, we will travel back in time as far as 290 million years ago to discover the trees that weathered time. As we work our way towards > Continue Reading
Tacoma Tree Foundation invites you to join them for "Traveling through Time with Trees", with Sarah Low exploring living fossils, February 21st from 12:30-1:30. During this talk, we will travel back in time as far as 290 million years ago to discover the trees that weathered time. As we work our way towards the present, > Continue Reading
Our first walk of the season will meet at King’s Books and end at the W. W. Seymour Conservatory in Wright Park. With Sarah Low’s guidance, we will wander through the surrounding neighborhood streets to spot spring blooming in deciduous trees, admire how evergreens change in the light of spring color, and connect with nature. > Continue Reading
In this walk, Steven Quick will take us through and around McKinley Park to appreciate and discuss trees and their water-related benefits. Trees can help reduce urban temperatures by evaporating water and shading the area around it, but they also help reduce stormwater flooding and pollution. Some trees, however, might be better at this than > Continue Reading
Tree Stewards are community tree champions who help grow and protect Tacoma's urban tree canopy. Do you care about Hilltop? Do you care about Tacoma? Would you like to help increase its tree canopy? As part of our Tacoma Creates program, the Tacoma Tree Foundation is offering a FREE Tree Stewards Training. This day-long training > Continue Reading
What is an urban forest? And what are the questions that arise when we set out to grow a city’s forest? In this lunch and learn webinar, Lisa Kenny, Community Trees Program Coordinator, will help us understand the intersection of trees across environmental and public health disciplines.
