Greendays

Steve Scher
09/12/2006 at 10:00 a.m.

Seattle - the Emerald City. Seattle boasts the Olympic National Forest to its west and the Cascade Mountain Range to its east. Inside its borders, the Emerald City is turning concrete gray. The city has lost two-thirds of its tree cover over the last three decades due to development. The trees that still stand struggle with invasive ivy and inconsistent care. As the mayor backs city growth, will urban density hurt what makes us green?

Guests:
Ilze Jones has spent 35 years as an architect and landscape architect. She is a Seattle Urban Forest Stakeholder and Principal-in-Charge of Jones & Jones, a Seattle-based architecture and landscape architecture firm specializing in zoological and botanical gardens, waterfront parks, trails, and greenways.
Max Prinsen is the president and founder of S.H.A.D.O.W. (Save Habitat And Diversity Of Wetlands), an organization preserving environmentally sensitive regions in King County.
Jeff Bash is the Executive Director for the Seattle Urban Nature Project (SUNP).