What’s new with Green Seattle Partnership?
2024 in Photos
Growth, Partnerships, Stewardship, and More! Another incredible and dynamic year has wrapped for Green Seattle Partnership! In our 19th year of programming, GSP continues to showcase our powerful and unique role within the city ecosystem, restoring forested parklands...
THE YEAR IS 2025!
In 2005, Green Seattle Partnership set out to undertake the restoration and care of 2500 acres of forested parklands across Seattle by 2025. This year, we’ll be looking back to celebrate our accomplishments, share stories, and reflect as we move towards the next 20...
Seattle Forest Week Recap 2024
Thank you to everyone who participated in Seattle Forest Week this year, from our partners who organized and hosted events to community members who showed up rain or shine! With the theme ‘Nurturing Forests and Futures: Youth Engagement in Seattle’s Urban Forest’,...
Seattle Representing! Global to Local Urban Ecological Restoration at COP16
Happy Seattle Forest Week to everyone! With leaves falling, mushrooms popping, and salmon coming home, we have returned again to our season of planting and celebration in Seattle’s forests! This year, Seattle Forest Week has included an extra special opportunity to...
Happy Autumn! Dive into Bat Ecology in the Pacific Northwest
Washington state is home to 14 different species of bats, half of which have been spotted hanging around Seattle! Since bats are nocturnal, we don't commonly see them in our day-to-day activities, but bats are a huge contributor to our ecosystem. The...
Closing in on 50,000 Survival Rings: How it Helps Our Forests Thrive!
Green Seattle Partnership has supported the cutting of 49,432 survival rings across the city. We would like to give a huge thank you to all our forest stewards and restoration crews who have dedicated their time to preserving Seattle’s historic forests! Crews...
Sharing Green Seattle with Summer Visitors from Near and Far
Green Seattle Partnership has been busy these last couple months welcoming visitors from around the world! What an honor to host attendees of the Greater Greener Conference, leadership and staff from NPO Birth in Tokyo, judges from the Green Flag Award, the UNEP...
Dive into your next read with GSP’s summer book list!
Summer is here, embrace the season with stories that connect you to the local land and people, examine the environmental challenges we face to foster ecosystem resiliency, and provide insightful narratives to our relationship with nature. From poetic reflections that...
So it grows – updates from the GSP Forest Monitoring Program
Making Progress in Seattle’s Urban Forest I recently returned to one of the sites at Schmitz Preserve Park where I led habitat restoration over a decade ago, and I’ll be honest, the site is a total mess. It seemed so simple in the beginning. Remove the weeds and plant...
Brighten Up Your Summer with These Youth Opportunities!
Summer is just around the corner and Green Seattle Partnership is excited to share seasonal opportunities that will provide youth with valuable, hands-on experience in ecological restoration and community care. Through these career exposure and job training...
JUMP for Joy! Don’t FROGET About Amphibians at Green Seattle Partnership Sites
“Trees, trees, trees” is often the message and image of the Green Seattle Partnership, but we work across the park system at sites that include wetlands, creeks, shorelines, and ponds. Our Forest stewards work along with the various critters at their sites and often...
Participating in Events with the Whole Family
Kick off the new year by getting the whole family involved in volunteering with the Green Seattle Partnership. It’s a perfect way to connect with your community, get outside, get active, and keep local parks healthy. Many events on the CEDAR volunteer page are open to...