News

August 2, 2013
Another step closer to Teanaway Community Forest
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
The Washington State Board of Natural Resources gave its unanimous approval to the acquisition of 50,000 acres of forested watershed in the Teanaway River Basin in Kittitas County to create the Teanaway Community Forest. This will be the first Community Forest for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. “Today’s vote is great news...

July 10, 2013
A local effort to have Congress designate the Mountains to Sound Greenway as a National Heritage Area gained another critical boost this week.   Monday, U.S. Representative Suzan DelBene signed on as a cosponsor of H.R. 1785, the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Act.  This bipartisan legislation was introduced by Congressman Dave Reichert in...

July 1, 2013
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
The Teanaway River Basin, just north of Cle Elum, boasts working forest lands, livestock grazing acreage, opportunities for many kinds of recreation, hundreds of miles of streams and dozens of trails. Today Governor Jay Inslee signed the capital budget for the State of Washington which included $132 million for the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan which will...

June 12, 2013
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
King County and City of Issaquah officials cut the ribbon today on a newly-paved segment of the East Lake Sammamish Trail in Issaquah. The improved section of trail runs 2.2 miles from SE 43rd Street to NW Gilman Boulevard, transforming this former gravel surface to a paved trail that is 12 feet wide with...

June 11, 2013
U.S. Representative Jim McDermott joined as co-sponsor to legislation introduced by Reps. Dave Reichert and Adam Smith to designate the Mountains to Sound Greenway as a National Heritage Area. “The Mountains to Sound Greenway is a state and national treasure with rich natural and cultural resources. Its conservation should be a top priority. Washingtonians...

April 30, 2013
Thanks to legislation introduced by U.S. Congressman Dave Reichert, we are one step closer to an official Mountains to Sound Greenway. The area from Seattle, over the Cascades, to central Washington surrounding Interstate 90 is a special part of our region, indeed our country. It’s a treasured landscape of mountains, forests, rivers and streams,...

April 26, 2013
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
Kokanee salmon are swimming again in Lake Sammamish. Today, 4th grade students from Blackwell Elementary School released thousands of kokanee fry into Ebright Creek, which flows into the eastern shore of Lake Sammamish. This creek is the site of a major restoration project by landowner Wally Pereyra, who removed a culvert and planted the...

April 10, 2013
By a vote of 87 to 11, the U.S. Senate approved Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) chief executive Sally Jewell on Wednesday as the next Secretary of the Interior. Obama’s nomination of Sally to this Cabinet post made national news and sent waves of enthusiasm through the conservation and recreation community. President Obama tapped Sally Jewell...

March 28, 2013
Just south of the Greenway… King County and Hancock Timber Resource Group have reached a preliminary agreement for the county to purchase a conservation easement that would permanently protect 43,000 acres of the White River Forest near Enumclaw.   The terms of the conservation easement would allow current and future owners the right to...

March 26, 2013
As reporter Lynda Mapes described in the Seattle Times this week, popular state parks throughout Washington are in a grim state of disrepair. The Mountains to Sound Greenway is home to seven beloved state parks. Squak Mountain State Park features quiet, forested trails for hikers and equestrians just south of Issaquah. But budget cuts leave trails that...