Name: Casey Clapp with Taha Ebrahimi — 'The Trees Around You'
Start: 2025-10-23T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-23T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Third Place Books Seward Park

$Casey Clapp with Taha Ebrahimi \u2014 'The Trees Around You'$

A visually rich and entertaining field guide to identifying common trees in the Pacific Northwest's urban and suburban areas.
About this Event

Third Place Books welcomes arborist, environmental educator, and Completely Arbortrary podcast co-host Casey Clapp to our Seward Park store for a conversation about his new book, . Casey will be joined in conversation by Taha Ebrahimi, author of .

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About The Trees Around You. . .

A visually rich and entertaining field guide to identifying common trees in the Pacific Northwest's urban and suburban areas

User-friendly organization and 700-plus photos of bark, flowers, leaves, and more to clarify, compare, and contrast species
Includes over 300 of the most common tree species found in urban and surburban settings in the Pacific Northwest
Focuses on making tree identification easy and rewarding

Tree educator, host of the Completely Arbortrary podcast, and arborist Casey Clapp shares his knowledge and enthusiasm in this first ever field guide to focus on the most common trees in the Pacific Northwest's urban and suburban areas. Clapp's innovative Stepwise Journey guides readers through a progression of key clues for tree identification, while line drawings, phenology calendar, and over 700 photos provide clear visual references. Clapp covers more than 300 species altogether, with 150 featured species highlighted in extended profiles that cover key details, including common and scientific names; physical descriptions of the bark, leaves, and seed cones; notes on where to look for specific species; and distinguishing characteristics of related trees. From oaks to maples to conifers, Clapp gives everyone the tools and confidence to take this book outside and identify the trees in their own backyard, along their street, or in their local parks.

In The Trees Around You, Casey Clapp demystifies tree identification, while spreading joy and enthusiasm for paying closer attention to the trees that surround us every day.

Casey Clapp is an arborist and environmental educator with nearly two decades of experience in arboriculture and urban forestry. An enthusiastic fan of trees, Clapp specializes in teaching tree identification to a wide range of audiences at arboreta, garden centers, and through the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture. Clapp earned a bachelor’s degree in forestry from Oregon State University and a master’s in environmental conservation from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He co-hosts the Completely Arbortrary podcast, which explores stories about trees and tree-loving people all over the world, one species at a time. Clapp lives in Portland, Oregon. Visit him online at arbortrarypod.com and caseyclapp.com.

Taha Ebrahimi is director of Tableau Public, a free platform to explore, create and publicly share online data visualizations about publicly available data. She is also a “celebrity” judge of Iron Viz, the world’s largest virtual data visualization competition. She is passionate about the storytelling power of data visualization to democratize the understanding of complex data insights. Taha is also the co-chair of the Cal Anderson Park Alliance and a contributor to Crosscut where she writes about things like local mapmaking. She began her career as a journalist at The Seattle Times, has taught writing at the University of Pittsburgh, and has been a recipient of fellowships granted by The Thomas J. Watson Foundation (IBM) and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.

About Third Place Books

Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events.