Stories

October 29, 2024
Post By: Jim Fossett 
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The Yakama Nation has a century-long history with the Ellensburg Rodeo, a four-day event in historic Kittitas Valley where tribes have practiced their traditions since time immemorial. Families today can trace their ancestry to Craig’s Hill, Naneum, and Chelohan, a northeast Ellensburg intertribal meeting ground.     The fairgrounds at Craig’s Hill and the rodeo arena...

August 6, 2024
Post by: Shenise Ramirez, Communications Coordinator and Jim Labayen, Adult Education Manager of Bike Works
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Use this guide to enjoy the breathtaking views within the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area with a stewardship mindset.

July 31, 2024
Post by: Shenise Ramirez
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You don’t need to whip up entire meals from your local green spaces to call yourself a sustainable urban forager. But what you do need is respect—for the land, the plants, and the traditions tied to them. Foraging is a vast world, reaching beyond just food. Plants have been used for centuries for dyes,...

June 26, 2024
Written by Cynthia Brothers
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Seattle has a history of complex and overlapping policies that maintained intergenerational wealth and power among Whites and excluded many Indigenous, Black, people of color, and immigrants from homes, schools, upwardly mobile jobs, and other institutions. Greater Seattle has been home to Coast Salish people for thousands of years. When the first White settlers...

May 29, 2024
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Salmon are an iconic species, inextricably woven into the cultural, ecological, and historical fabric of the Greenway NHA. Follow along as this guide explores each aspect of this species’ importance: their ecological value, connection to humans, and how organizations like the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust support salmon population recovery efforts across Washington state.

May 28, 2024
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The Teanaway River Basin, part of the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area, is a biodiverse region with a history of both harmonious and destructive human impact. Logging and railroads, while innovative, led to the degradation of vital salmon habitat in the Teanaway river. Learn more about the history of the Teanaway...

September 15, 2023
Post by: Emily Burkhart, Education and Outreach Assistant for Mid-Columbia Fisheries
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Beginning in late summer through the fall, beautifully colored salmon and steelhead can be seen migrating upstream through the Yakima River Basin, all the way to the upper river tributaries and Cascade Mountain reservoirs, swimming thousands of miles to reach their spawning grounds. Many people enjoy watching these truly marvelous creatures swim upstream or...

June 28, 2023
Post by: Shenise Ramirez, Communications Coordinator
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This is the first of a two-part series about Orca Action Month. Head over to our friends at the Maritime Washington National Heritage Area for part two. Everyone wants to be graced by the presence of an orca at least once in their lifetime, and many will do whatever it takes to see one....