The Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area
Breaking news: Congressman Dave Reichert, with co-sponsor congressman Adam Smith, introduced HR 1785 in the U.S. House of Representatives to establish the Mountains to Sound Greenway as a National Heritage Area!
It’s time to make it official.Now is the time for the U.S. Congress to designate the Mountains to Sound Greenway as a National Heritage Area. Official recognition of the Greenway will demonstrate the national significance of this landscape, empower partners to work together more efficiently, enhance funding opportunities and formalize the Greenway coalition's cooperative management style across this broad landscape. At the same time, a National Heritage Area Designation will not affect private property, water, hunting or fishing rights, or add any regulatory authority.
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VOICE YOUR SUPPORT
Contact Representatives Reichert and Smith and Senators Cantwell and Murray to ask them to pass National Heritage Area legislation for the Mountains to Sound Greenway. |
The Greenway is a special place.Vast forests. Meadow-strewn mountain peaks. Productive farms that feed city markets. Rural communities, keepers of our region's colorful past. Vibrant cities where people want to live and companies want to locate. Broad swaths of land for wildlife to roam. Hundreds of places for skiing, hiking, kayaking, cycling. 1.5 million acres. 900,000 acres of public land. 1.4 million people. 28 cities. 1,600 miles of trails. This is the Mountains to Sound Greenway. |
Sign the petition to tell Congress to pass HR 1785. |
Two decades of cooperation.In 1991 local citizens came together to preserve the natural lands, wildlife, history and scenic beauty along Interstate 90 in Washington State. Now, with a 20-year track record of working together to balance thoughtful development with land conservation, we are preserving a Greenway for both people and nature.
We've done our homework.More than 1,000 Greenway community members, in an extensive public engagement process, determined that a National Heritage Area provides the best structure to ensure continued preservation of the Greenway. Read the feasibility study. |
Submit a letter from your organization that states your endorsement of this effort.
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Learn More.Greenway Heritage Area in the News What a National Heritage Designation WILL and WILL NOT DO. |
