Tacoma is embarking on a project to better regulate the preservation of trees in the city by 2027. The preservation effort comes from work that the City Council and staff did on Home in Tacoma – a ...

When Tacoma took on the goal of creating a 30 percent tree canopy in the city by 2030, officials relied on a study by the conservation organization American Forests to answer the question: How do you ...

Tacoma is gearing up to finalize a plan that outlines strategies to make South Tacoma more affordable, safe and healthy. The result of an effort that goes back to 2023, the South Tacoma Neighborhood ...

The city’s trees would see new protections if certain recommendations for Home in Tacoma Phase 2 take root. Advocates say the package’s proposed landscaping and tree-canopy mandates are needed to ...

It was standard fare, the type of email thread Tacoma’s small but feisty community of tree advocates fires up all the time. It concerned two trees in particular, unremarkable — at least to most. But ...

When Easton Umansky chose a college, Tacoma's trees were a deciding factor. "We don't have trees like this back home," said Umansky, who hails from San Diego. That cinched his choice of the University ...