Blog Post

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),...

January 21, 2025
Post by Amy Brockhaus, Deputy Director
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From the scenic trails of the Cascades to the working farms and forests that support our communities, the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area (Greenway NHA) supports local, state, and federal legislative priorities that preserve this landscape for future generations. Protecting these special places takes collaboration, funding, and smart policies—and our voice makes...

November 25, 2024
Post By: Paulina Orrantia Burboa, Communications Intern
REI is one of our outdoor-loving community’s most recognized brands and has embraced a role as one of the region’s most active and powerful voices for conservation. Recent years have underscored the profound benefits of time spent outdoors on human health and happiness, and REI has long been ahead of the curve in advocating...

November 19, 2024
Post By: Kristina Cruz, former Volunteer Specialist
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
Over the decades, volunteers have worked with organizations like the Greenway Trust to restore Issaquah Creek, a lifeline for endangered wildlife that has undergone significant transformation over the past few centuries.  Once blanketed by forests of conifers and alder, the land around Issaquah Creek was home to Snoqualmie People who developed deep ties to the...

November 13, 2024
Post By: Shenise Ramirez, Communications Coordinator
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
The Puget Sound region is full of protected forests that are close to urban areas like Seattle. But how do lands become protected forests, especially when the prices of these lands are usually unattainably high for our state land management agencies?   The answer can be found in a newly protected patch of forest in the Snoqualmie...

November 11, 2024
Post by Amy Brockhaus, Deputy Director
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It’s hard to believe, but 2024 is already winding down and the new year will be here before we know it! With each year’s end, we like to pause and reflect on some of the accomplishments that have taken place across the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area over the past 12 months....

October 25, 2024
Post by Katie Egresi, Communications Manager
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Picture yourself as a high school student, balancing time with friends, homework, and wondering about what’s next after graduation. One day, a flyer catches your eye—a paid internship with the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust. You’re intrigued, and the chance to earn some money seals the deal.  Fast forward to the end of summer:...