What are Seattle’s trees doing for you? That’s the focus of a new report on the multi-year effort by the Green Cities Research Alliance to examine the environmental value and benefits of Seattle’s urban forest. Seattle’s Forest Ecosystem Values: Analysis of the Structure, Function, and Economic Values was published in ...

The City of Tukwila and Forterra has closed on a land transaction with a private owner to expand the Duwamish Hill Preserve, a historically, culturally and ecologically significant piece of land along the Duwamish River in north Tukwila. The City purchased 1.9 acres from owner Elmer James White, Jr. increasing ...

Thanks to last week’s purchase of a conservation easement by Tacoma Power, approximately 1,850 acres of working timberland and valuable wildlife habitat in the area known as Peterman Hill above Lewis County’s Riffe Lake will be conserved from development in perpetuity. The conservation easement was negotiated by the Washington Department ...

It’s a bold idea – and what better place to start than in one of the greenest cities in the United States? That’s the thought behind a new program aimed to recruit businesses large and small to commit to calculating, reducing and mitigating their carbon output to combat climate change.  ...

Forterra and Kittitas County permanently conserved Triple Creek Ranch with the purchase of a 260-acre working-farmland conservation easement, the largest completed as of April 17, 2012 in Kittitas County. With the easement in place, the long time family-owned farm outside of Ellensburg, WA can continue its agricultural operations in perpetuity ...

Forterra purchased 480 acres of forest habitat for permanent conservation on Dec. 11, 2011. The Mt. Amabilis property, located a few miles northeast of Easton in Kittitas County near the Shore of Kachess Lake, provides critical wildlife habitat and serves as an important piece of the long-range strategy to conserve ...