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 ...

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 ...

Tacoma has a goal of achieving 30 percent urban tree canopy coverage by 2030. The city’s urban forest program manager says we’ll never get there, unless significant changes are made. Peter Haley Staff ...