When I was 10 years old, my family got our first taste of hiking. It was at the beginning of our “let’s-go-out-west-and-indulge-our-travel-bug” phase where my family of 10 took extensive trips to explore the west 3 summers in a row. We drove out to Seattle from Detroit in 1999 taking our first big van...
Stephanie Huck
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Commissioner’s Volunteer Hero Award was established to salute DNR’s volunteers who have dedicated their time, enthusiasm, and efforts to support several of DNR’s programs. This award not only recognizes an outstanding volunteer who has shown tireless commitment, it also celebrates all of DNR’s valuable volunteers. This is your...
As most of you may now know, there is a wildfire devastating parts of Kittitas County, near the Cle Elum area. Even though the Greenway Trust’s main office is located in downtown Seattle, our hearts are in Kittitas County as our friends on the eastern side of the Mountains to Sound Greenway struggle to...
Everyone knows The Mountains to Sound Greenway has some of the best hiking trails in this area. A rainy day hike to Granite Lakes a couple of weekends ago was no exception. With abundant hiking in the nearby Alpine Lakes Wilderness (the closest wilderness area to any major metropolitan area in the country!), it...
Recently we have been learning about biosolids- how they are made and where they are used. After the heavy organic solids (mostly human and food waste) are strained from sewage, they are composted with bacteria for about a month to remove pathogens. About half of these biosolids are then trucked off to commercial forests...
Imagine walking through the forest with your eyes at the level of your knees. What would you notice? On a sunny morning, would it feel like you were swimming in shades of green with pools of light illuminating your path? Maybe if you were a toddler. The Greenway Education Program offered a family nature...