Imagine this: you come home after a long day. The sun is shining, and you want to go outside, but can’t go too far. Right in your backyard is a green space with a small creek running through it and a lot of tall trees with big shady leaves in the summer. Problem is, it’s overrun with a
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Being environmentally sustainable and responsible can come in many forms, from using reusable straws to going zero waste. If you live in King County, you’ve been helping out the environment, whether you realize it or not: your waste (biosolids) has been turned into something called Loop Soil. Loop is “a fertilizer replacement produced by cleaning,
Continue Reading : How the Greenway is Part of the “Poop Loop”
Washington can be characterized by forests that seem to stretch forever, but do you ever wonder how those giant trees can grow so tall? At the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust nursery, we raise thousands of baby trees (and other native plants) to prepare them to thrive at one of our many restoration sites across the Greenway. There are currently more
Continue Reading : Raising a Forest: A Look Into the Greenway Native Plants Nursery
As a non-profit, a lot of the work that we accomplish is through partnerships with various organizations—from governmental agencies to other non-profits. One of our longest standing partnerships is with Carter Subaru. For more than ten years, the dealership has been a dedicated partner whose forward and long-term thinking paired with their financial support has
Continue Reading : The Greenway’s 13 Year Partnership with Carter Subaru
To me, skunk cabbage (Lysichiton americanus) is one of the clearest and most fascinating signs of spring in the Northwest. In low to mid-elevation wetlands along ponds, seeps on hillsides, and anywhere else mucky enough that your boot makes a wet squelch as you pull it out, lone yellow points begin pushing up from the
Continue Reading : ‘Tis the Season for Skunk Cabbage in the Greenway!
This year the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust made some necessary and drastic adjustments to how we operated. Our office staff switched to working remotely (and still are!), but it was important for our Trail and Restoration Crews to continue to work on the ground. So, we problem solved. We created protocols for the Trail
Continue Reading : Restoration and Trail Work Across the Greenway in 2020
Information from King County Salmon SEEson Press Release Pacific salmon – including sockeye, Chinook, coho, pink and chum – have begun the journey from the open ocean to their birthplaces in King County streams and rivers that feed into Puget Sound. Kokanee, landlocked sockeye salmon that spend their entire lives in the Lake Sammamish watershed,
Autumn has fallen on our Greenway landscape, and that means that iconic seasonal changes are upon us. Leaves are turning, rains are restarting, and salmon are once again returning to freshwater systems. Yep, that’s right, watching salmon run up our creeks and streams is an iconic part of seasonal shift in the region. Similar to the festive
Continue Reading : How Our Restoration Work Is Helping Salmon