Green Seattle Partnership
Restoring Seattle's Urban Forests
Vote for TREES!!!
Help the Green Seattle Partnership get $10,000 from the Odwalla Plant a Tree Campaign to buy trees for Green Seattle Day.
Our video has made the top 20 and NOW you can get us to the top 10! Follow this link and VOTE for Green Seattle Partnership's video. We will use the money to buy trees and volunteer appreciation items for Green Seattle Day.
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Enjoy May's Flowers by Volunteering
April showers bring May flowers. Get outside and volunteer with the Green Seattle Partnership as our bleeding hearts, red currant and other spring bloomers are out in their full colors. Find a workparty near you this month by clicking here
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Photo Contest Winner
We are excited to announce Cheasty Greenspace Mt.View as the winner of the Earth Month photo contest. Mary DeJong, GSP Forest Steward, submitted this photo
of her kids "enjoying the inherent benefits of being exposed to nature". We brought coffee and doughnuts to their
Do you have a pictures that you didn't get to share? We would still love to see it, post it on our wall. May 5th volunteer event.
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Green Seattle Partnership on the Radio!
Green Seattle Partnership has taken to the airwaves! Green Acres Radio has created two shore segments highlighting the work that Green Seattle Partnership volunteers, Forest Stewards and partner organization have been doing in Seward Park and Beaver Pond Natural Area.
Listen to these segments:
Seward Park and Green Infrastructure
Beaver Pond Natural Area Restoration Efforts
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Support the Partnership's Future
Green Seattle Partnership builds community by restoring our declining forests. With thousands of volunteers participating in the Partnership throughout the city, a shared sense of ownership for our city parks is cultivated. We must invest in our forests now!
Please click here to send a message encouraging our leaders to continue funding the Green Seattle Partnership.
What Motivates GSP Volunteers?
Watch these quick video about a great study asking that exact questions about restoration volunteers.
Our Vision: A healthy, livable city with sustainable forested parklands
The Green Seattle Partnership has a vision of a city with diverse, invasive-free, sustainable forested parklands. It is a vision where Seattle’s urban forest will be supported by an aware and engaged community in which individuals, neighborhoods, nonprofits, businesses, and City government work together to protect and maintain this resource.
GSP Goals- Restore 2,500 acres of forested parkland in the City of Seattle.
- Create an informed, involved and active community of citizens, City staff, educators, business leaders, and conservationists.
- Ensure sustainability of our forested parklands through proper, long-term maintenance and community stewardship
See full vision statement of the Green Seattle Partnership
