Stephanie Huck

June 24, 2013
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
Riders on the Explore the Greenway bike ride through the cool, dark Snoqualmie Tunnel just west of Snoqualmie Pass this Saturday will experience a piece of Washington’s railroad history. And now equestrians, bicyclists, wagon riders and more can travel the John Wayne Pioneer Trail east of Snoqualmie Pass as well. Washington State Parks just reopened two...

June 12, 2013
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
King County and City of Issaquah officials cut the ribbon today on a newly-paved segment of the East Lake Sammamish Trail in Issaquah. The improved section of trail runs 2.2 miles from SE 43rd Street to NW Gilman Boulevard, transforming this former gravel surface to a paved trail that is 12 feet wide with...

June 11, 2013
U.S. Representative Jim McDermott joined as co-sponsor to legislation introduced by Reps. Dave Reichert and Adam Smith to designate the Mountains to Sound Greenway as a National Heritage Area. “The Mountains to Sound Greenway is a state and national treasure with rich natural and cultural resources. Its conservation should be a top priority. Washingtonians...

June 4, 2013
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
By way of introduction, Aaron and I are Restoration Technicians employed by Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust. Our work for the Greenway is primarily in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and the Issaquah Alps, surveying and controlling non-native plants such as hawkweeds, knapweeds, and tansy ragwort. These plants are among more than 200 non-native...

May 17, 2013
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
Dear Ms. Kentch, Thank you for letting us go on our second field trip to Mountains to Sound. It felt so good helping the environment and saving baby trees. I thought it was amazing finding seeds of a beaked hazelnut and helping it stay alive. Our presentation was fun because we got to explain...

May 8, 2013
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
Invasive weeds do not know where a public park ends and a private lot begins. On both public and private lands, the banks of Issaquah Creek have been changing due to a highly invasive species known as knotweed (Polygonum sp). Knotweed spreads vegetatively from rhizomes, by seed disperal, and from plant fragments, rapidly distributing...

April 30, 2013
Thanks to legislation introduced by U.S. Congressman Dave Reichert, we are one step closer to an official Mountains to Sound Greenway. The area from Seattle, over the Cascades, to central Washington surrounding Interstate 90 is a special part of our region, indeed our country. It’s a treasured landscape of mountains, forests, rivers and streams,...

April 26, 2013
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
Kokanee salmon are swimming again in Lake Sammamish. Today, 4th grade students from Blackwell Elementary School released thousands of kokanee fry into Ebright Creek, which flows into the eastern shore of Lake Sammamish. This creek is the site of a major restoration project by landowner Wally Pereyra, who removed a culvert and planted the...

April 10, 2013
By a vote of 87 to 11, the U.S. Senate approved Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) chief executive Sally Jewell on Wednesday as the next Secretary of the Interior. Obama’s nomination of Sally to this Cabinet post made national news and sent waves of enthusiasm through the conservation and recreation community. President Obama tapped Sally Jewell...

April 8, 2013
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
Raging River Lands Conserved In March, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) approved the purchase of 460 acres in the Raging River State Forest, which was created in 2009 by Commissioner of Public Lands and Greenway Trust board member Peter Goldmark. “This is an opportunity to protect salmon habitat and clean water in the...