Newsletters

Art on signal box at 128th St. entrance to North SeaTac Park by Daniel Wend, commissioned by Des Moines Memorial Drive Preservation Association, altered with a call to save trees by photographer Noemie Maxwell

2025

March 2025

• Ask Tukwila to retain trees in housing development; A loss for Barnes Creek land; Encouraging news for Des Moines; Support House Bill 1303: Delivering Environmental Justice for SeaTac Airport Communities & more

February 2025

• Take action now to support a planning commission for City of Des Moines. Plus: updates on SAMP,  Des Moines Creek Business Park West, Barnes Creek property, and lawsuit against Port & airlines

January 2025

• Special Bulletin: Protect Greenspace Adjacent to Barnes Creek Trail

2024

December 2024

• Act before Dec 13 to let Port and FAA know what you think about their SAMP plans to replace forest with industrial pollution in our community

November 2024

• Special Bulletin: Webinar gives tips on how to Say NO to airport expansion (Nov 9 bulletin, Nov 11 webinar)

• Say NO to airport expansion: FIX THE HARM don’t increase it (Nov 5)

October 2024

• Urgent Call to Action: Save 500 Trees in Des Moines

• Advocacy is the word of the month: Port Sustainable Airport Master Plan to be released; An additional 30 acres and 500 trees in Des Moines at risk from Port development plans, the future of North SeaTac Park is under consideration, and more

September 2024

• Help save 500 trees in Des Moines; Our impact in SeaTac: 80 emails to the Council; Bogs 101 and North SeaTac Park’s Tub Lake Bog

August 2024

• Urgent Action Alert: SeaTac City Council will deliberate on Aug 13th whether to take action to protect North SeaTac Park. Please urge decisive action

• Emerald green oasis near S. 216th St. in Des Moines threatened by plans for 400-spot parking lot and 400,000 sq ft industrial building; Threat to Tub Lake: A prehistoric peat moss bog in North SeaTac Park

July 2024

• Washington Conservation Corps continues work in North SeaTac Park, Tukwila, and Burien; Allen Lebovitz, candidate for commissioner of Public Lands, responds to Defenders question about the health of near-airport residents and our forest

June 2024

• Congress reauthorizes the FAA - What that means for Highline’s forest canopy; Major environmental advocacy coming up in June

May 2024

• Port approves a Land Stewardship Plan without acknowledging extensive public input against replacing large areas of community forest with additional polluting sources; Shout-out to Riverton Heights, Online donations now possible

April 2024

• Earth Day introductions of Defenders of Highline Forest

• Defenders’ concerns about Port’s Land Stewardship Plan are being heard

March 2024

• Remembering Annie Phillips, Action: Land Stewardship Plan, outreach in Riverton Heights, and more

February 2024

• Defenders of Highline Forest believe you deserve a healthy environment

January 2024

• Defenders urge an outpouring of support for game-changing legislation: HB 2103 and SB 5955

• Defenders Expand their Mission, Port of Seattle Land Stewardship Plan

2023

December 2023

• Meet us at Pier 69! What is the Port’s Land Stewardship Plan? Big thanks to Seattle Tree Action and The Last 6,000

November 2023

• Write to Port and city officials to ask for adequate public notice and input for two important new Port policies

• Port’s online webinar on new land stewardship policies; Burien Lions Club plants trees in the park, community forest restoration in North SeaTac Park

October 2023

• Green SeaTac Day, Port invites input on tree policies, Crosscut article on North SeaTac Park and surrounding forest

August 2023

• Correction;  Action needed by tomorrow; Update on suit against Port; Tree removal causing deadly heat increase

• Important news: New federal legislation introduced to protect North SeaTac Park; Port proposes conservation standards

June 2023

• Aviation Town Hall; class action suit filed against Port; Port silence on rezoning North SeaTac Park; upcoming forest rescues

February 2023

• Come to an organizing zoom session, More about beavers, Upcoming forest rescues

January 2023

• Don’t replace SeaTac’s forests with warehouses, Beaver in North SeaTac Park, UW interns join Defenders

2022

October 2022

• Port Listening Session and the Unfulfilled Promise of a Wetlands Preserve in North SeaTac Park

• Tell the Port: “Put it in writing!”  

August 2022

• Happy Birthday North SeaTac Park

June 2022

• Defenders Show Up

May 2022

• Action Needed Tomorrow: North SeaTac Council to Vote

April 2022

• News & Action Items - Defending our Park & Community

March 2022

• Sign the Community Forest Consensus

Jan 2022

• This park needs defenders

2021

Dec 2021

• Most parks have friends groups; this one needs defenders: Introducing Defenders of North SeaTac Park

Nov 2021

• Saving North SeaTac Park: Aviation Commercial zoning for this park must be changed; Action opportunity: delivering the No Airport Parking in North SeaTac Park petition to the Port of Seattle

Oct 2021

• Tree-destroying development plans for inside and all around North SeaTac Park still exist (map); Protect the park by planting native trees on Green SeaTac Day

Sept 2021

• Port of Seattle Commissioners tour area of park proposed for industrial development; Coming up: Port will vote on a proposal to inventory the at-risk area of the park

August 2021

• Port withdraws proposal for parking lot in North SeaTac Park

• Port officials visit North SeaTac Park

July, 2021

• More press coverage, Port staff limit choice of reasonable alternatives (to parking lot in NSTP) in apparent violation of law, “the astonishing North SeaTac Park”

• Petition has 1,900 signatures; press coverage; preview of community presentation

June 2021

• No to airport parking in North SeaTac Park: first update