Seattle Weekly: How Green Is Our City?

Interesting article on how green (literally ie plants) Seattle is.

Old growth was still being cut in Seattle (Carkeek Park) as late as the 1940s, partly due to World War II timber shortages. Despite aggressive neighborhood planting, trees and urban wildlife habitat are still being lost to development. A consequence of density and infill is that we've been building in greenbelts and vacant lots, and the size of yards is shrinking. It would be convenient to blame chain saw-crazy judges for our vanishing trees, but development is the main culprit

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