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
“Seattle has one of the most diverse street tree collections in the country.” ~Amity Addrisi, KING5 “New Day NW”
“Ebrahimi has tracked down the backstories of a veritable forest of trees. . . [and] it’s no exaggeration to say that anticipation of [the] book has been building.” ~Feliks Banel, KIRO Newsradio “The Resident Historian”
“When you identify the trees around you, you feel more connected and present.” ~KOMO4 TV “ARC Seattle”
AUTHOR + ILLUSTRATOR
Taha Ebrahimi
Taha’s writing has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Crosscut, The Seattle Times, and numerous anthologies. She is also the recipient of awards from the Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. She serves as a member of the council for Historic Seattle as well as the board for the Cal Anderson Park Alliance.