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  Seattle author Lynda Mapes shares her love of old-growth forests, from their quiet to their 'fructifying funk'

  This month, the KUOW Book Club read Lynda V. Mapes' new book, "The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests." Mapes joined KUOW's Katie Campbell for a live conversation at the Seattle Central Library, the final in a three-part summer series in partnership with Seattle Public Library. The full audio and video from the event is available below.

  • Katie Campbell
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  'Old trees matter.' Seattle author Lynda Mapes is writing to save them in her new book

  The KUOW Book Club is continuing its summer reading series with Seattle Public Library this month. We're reading environmental journalist and author Lynda V. Mapes' new book, "The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests."

  • Katie Campbell
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  Housing, trees, and parking: In Seattle, you can pick two

  We can’t have all three. Not in equal measure. Right now, trees are slowly losing. But with sufficient incentives in place, that could change.

  • Joshua McNichols
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  A century-old tree called 'Big Red' comes down in Edmonds

  Neighbors and tree advocates circled the trunk, trying to protect it. Condo association members said the tree's removal was sad but necessary.

  • Joshua McNichols
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  Seattle's new zoning rules dial up tension around preserving tree canopy

  Seattle is currently mapping how it will grow over the next 20 years. Mayor Bruce Harrell wants to double the city’s housing capacity, with the hope of bringing down costs. But as residential neighborhoods open up to new types of housing, the city’s environmental impact statement predicts “moderate tree canopy loss” as a result.

  • Amy Radil

• The trees that line Seattle's streets

  The emerald city owes much of its greenery to street trees, planted along sidewalks and public roads. These trees show up in unexpected places and sometimes have even more unexpected stories Author Taha Ebrahimi Street Trees of Seattle

  • Paige Browning