Blog Post

August 21, 2025
Post by Vince Pruis, Teanaway Engagement Coordinator
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While Charley stages the five other llamas for our Lead-a-Llama event, Mary delicately steps back up into the trailer at Indian Camp and starts munching. She’s much more interested in her hay than in the introduction our participants are getting to the Teanaway Community Forest (TCF)—the largest community forest in the state – within...

July 11, 2025
Post By: Shenise Ramirez, Communications Coordinator
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Volunteers have been a critical lifeline for preserving and enhancing public lands and vital environments within the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area (Greenway NHA) for decades, but they are needed now more than ever. With state and federal funding for environmental restoration, education, and public land management being slashed, our public lands...

June 17, 2025
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The FY26 federal budget proposals include deep funding cuts and other actions that could severely impact the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area and public lands nationwide. If enacted, these various proposals would roll back decades of conservation progress, eliminate essential funding, sell off millions of acres of public lands, and jeopardize public access...

June 16, 2025
Post by Shen Ramirez, Communications Coordinator
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After nearly a decade of planning, The Mountains Sound Greenway Trust has launched its biggest restoration project yet in Lake Sammamish State Park to enhance critical salmon habitat in Issaquah Creek. With hundreds of pieces of large wood poised for placement, in-stream restoration work has begun and will continue through mid-August, while salmon are...

June 12, 2025
Posy by Katie Egresi, Communications Manager
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On June 7, the Middle Fork Snoqualmie Valley came alive with purpose as more than 100 people gathered to celebrate National Trails Day the best way we know how—by giving back to the trails that give us so much. This year’s event marked a major milestone for our volunteer program with the largest trail...

April 9, 2025
Post By: Shenise Ramirez, Communications Coordinator
Oral history is a powerful tool used within the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area to preserve stories, activate archives, and connect communities across generations. While oral storytelling has long been used to share knowledge, modern technology offers new ways to record and share these narratives. However, building the skills to create inclusive,...

April 7, 2025
Post By: Caroline Villanova, NHA Manager
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The Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area spans regional watersheds across the I-90 corridor from Seattle to Ellensburg. One of these regions, the Snoqualmie River Valley, is home to some of our organization’s longest standing collaborations. Over the past 35 years, we’ve worked with partners to ensure the Valley remains a place where...

March 27, 2025
Post By: Shenise Ramirez, Communications Coordinator
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Long-term restoration is a practice that has been a part of human culture since time immemorial and continues today in the form of projects undertaken by Tribes, non-profits, government agencies, and dedicated volunteers. Along Issaquah Creek, the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust and their partners have monitored and implemented incremental in-stream habitat improvements since...

February 26, 2025
Post By: Katie Egresi, Greenway Trust Communications Manager
Last updated March 13, 2025. Please note that this situation is changing rapidly — check current news sources for the most up to date numbers and announcements. The mass firings within the USDA Forest Service (Forest Service), National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS),...