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Please join us Tuesday at 7:00pm in Maple Leaf to celebrate Doug the Fir, and show Legacy Group Capital that we're not letting another healthy native tree come under their axe.

Please stay in touch to be notified of our next Gratitude Gathering:

We hope the accelerating losses of these mature, majestic and native trees will spur the community to advocate for all our canopy, especially these majestic conifers that are Seattle's heritage. 

We can build new homes with our trees, and with climate change looming, we must.

​​​Please join us and if you can bring roses and petals to create a mandala honoring this tree.

Gratitude Gathering for Doug the Fir in Maple Leaf

Please join us Tuesday at 1:30pm in the Main Lobby of City Hall as we gather to tell our City Council that we oppose the clearcutting of Seattle’s urban forest, including Luma and all other old growth trees like her, during this time of unchecked climate change.

⭐️ This will be a silent rally in City Council's meeting Chamber,  on the 2nd Floor of City Hall.

We will NOT attempt to make comments since urban canopy is not on the current meeting agenda, and any comments we attempt to make will be disallowed by the meeting keeper.

The timing and location of City Council meetings are inaccessible by design. We intend to bypass these intentional obstacles to community engagement with an incredible showing on Tuesday afternoon.

If you’re planning to join, THANK YOU and please bring a friend

Meet at the Grand Staircase in the Main Lobby of City Hall, 5th Avenue entrance

Next stop: City Hall

Join us for our next Gratitude Gathering to honor and give thanks to another of Seattle's original old growth Conifers, slated to be cut down by a developer but that the community is fighting to SAVE.

Gratitude Gathering for One of Seattle's Oldest Cedars

 was a huge success, attracting over 90 people and garnering 

. Thank you to everyone for making it out!

Our gratitude is gaining momentum, and there will be more trees to celebrate and recognize as they're targeted by developers like Bellevue-based Legacy Capital. 

Please stay in touch to be notified of our next Gratitude Gathering:  

​​We hope the accelerating losses of these hundred-year trees will spur the community to advocate for all our canopy, especially these majestic conifers that are Seattle's heritage. We can build new homes with our trees, and with climate change looming, we must. 

​​Please join us and if you can bring roses and petals to create a mandala honoring this tree.

Gratitude Gathering for Luma, an Old Growth Cedar in Seattle

Join us to celebrate and give thanks to one of the oldest Western Red Cedars in the Seattle area, before it is cut down by Bellevue developer Legacy Capital.

​This healthy cedar is believed to be one of the oldest in the area, predating the homes around it. Its two trunks are each about four feet in diameter. 

​The lot where it grows was purchased by Bellevue developer Legacy Capital and divided into two smaller lots. Seattle's land use code SMC 23.24.040 requires that saving trees be considered when drawing new lot lines.

​Instead, this lot was divided so that the cedar is now too big for its new, smaller lot. 

This native tree grows near the property edge and could easily have provided shade to the same size and number of new homes. 

Instead, a simple stroke of a planner's pen turned this PNW icon into a development obstacle.

​We hope that its loss will spur the community to advocate for all our trees, especially these majestic conifers which are Seattle's heritage. We can build new homes WITH our trees!

​Please join us and if you can, bring roses and petals to create a mandala honoring this tree.

Gratitude Gatherings Seattle

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