Features

Cham Ba - In our efforts to engage the community in thinking and talking about trees we were fortunate to meet a very talented young man in West Seattle. Cham Ba, an active member of the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center community and student at the Arts & Academics Academy at Evergreen High School, agreed to share his creative spirit and his passion about trees with us.

About Cham: I was born in Vietnam in 1991, I moved over to the states when I was about 2 years old. I spent most of my childhood growing up in White Center, at site 2 in the housing projects. I got into poetry and rhyming in about the 3rd grade, when I grew a liking to the books of Dr. Seuss who became one of my major influences on rhyming.

Douglas Fir

Majestically Beautiful
  Warm and comforting
     In a cement filled land

Towering in Green
  Above industry crawl
       Resilient against urban sprawl
                 The developer’s saw

Tall and Majestic

Let us help them stand.

Our thanks to Ingraham High School neighbor Michele for submitting her poem!

Thorn to be Wild - Check out the student-directed film documenting the ongoing restoration of Seattle's largest forest. This project was produced by the Nature Consortium under the creative direction of local film maker Carey Christie with funding from the City.