Street Trees of Seattle
An illustrated walking guide
Seattle has one of the most diverse collections of street trees in the country (double the East Coast and triple the Midwest!). Go urban forest bathing in 30+ neighborhoods and learn where to find and how to identify the city’s widest and oldest street trees, based on publicly-available data going back to 1950.
In The News:
“Seattle’s Coolest Street Tree Expert” ~Megan Seling, The Stranger
“’Street Trees of Seattle’ is a walking guide to the city’s top trees: from palms to cherry trees to cedars, Seattle has one of the most diverse tree populations in the nation.” ~Anne Erickson, KING5 TV “Evening”
“…packed with local tree facts [and] lovely drawings of the remarkable ‘hidden in plain sight’ trees that grow in our public right of ways.” ~Brangien Davis, Cascade PBS
“The emerald city owes much of its greenery to street trees [that] show up in unexpected places and sometimes have even more unexpected stories.” ~Paige Browning & Caroline Chamberlain Gomez, KUOW/NPR
“Meet 5 of Seattle’s Weird and Wonderful Street Trees…” ~Olivia Rosane, Seattle Met Magazine
“Ebrahimi has tracked down the backstories of a veritable forest of trees.” ~Feliks Banel, KIRO Newsradio “The Resident Historian”
“Filled with maps, diagrams and short, digestible explanations of the histories of local species, the book is designed to help people embark on their own tree walks.” ~Sarah-Mae McCullough, The Seattle Times
“When you identify the trees around you, you feel more connected and present.” ~KOMO4 TV “ARC Seattle”
Resources
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Find out how you can get 3 free trees: Seattle Trees for Neighborhoods
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Download Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT)’s Publicly Available Right-of-Way Tree Data
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Find out more about the City of Seattle’s Tree Protection Code
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Visit Seattle’s Public Tree Notice & Tree Permit Tracking Database
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Check out data visualizations of Seattle’s right-of-way trees:
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Map of Trees Validated for Street Trees of Seattle (Tableau Public)
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Map of all Seattle Right-of-Way Trees (Tableau Public)
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Official City of Seattle Tree Inventory Map (ArcGIS Online)
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AUTHOR + ILLUSTRATOR
Taha Ebrahimi
Taha is the author and illustrator of Street Trees of Seattle: An Illustrated Walking Guide (Sasquatch Books, 2024). She is currently director of the data visualization platform Tableau Public and serves as a member of the council for Historic Seattle as well as the board for the Cal Anderson Park Alliance. She has been named “Seattle’s Coolest Street Tree Expert” by The Stranger.