Middle Fork Road closures to start May 5

April 8, 2014
At long last, a construction project on 9.7 miles of the Middle Fork road is starting this spring! The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently awarded the contract and construction will begin in mid-April. The work will include repaving the roadway from milepost 2.7 just past the couplet at Lake Dorothy Road to the Middle...

April 2, 2014
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Amid the many languages spoken at Seattle World School on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, a new one was introduced in March, the language of the Pacific Northwest forest. A grant from Outdoor Nation, with the laudable motto Be An Outsider!, allowed Greenway education staff to work with 50 to 100 middle to high school age English Language...

March 19, 2014
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The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust and the King Conservation District (KCD) have worked together on a wide range of projects since the Greenway Trust was founded in1991. KCD has been an instrumental partner in many of the conservation and restoration successes across the Greenway. KCD was chartered by the Washington State Legislature in...

February 26, 2014
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Once plagued by illegal dumping, shooting, and widespread trashing of the river corridor, the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River Valley today is an amazing story of a regional treasure reclaimed. For nearly 20 years, the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust has worked with land managers and other community partners to improve public access and restore...

February 12, 2014
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Cole Creek Section and Martin Parcel In late December, Forterra acquired and transferred a full section of land (640 acres, one square mile) near Easton into public ownership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The land is known as the Cole Creek Section and was previously owned by Plum Creek Timber Company. Around...

January 29, 2014
On a crisp winter day with sweeping views of the surrounding mountains – Mt. Baker to the North, Mt. Rainier to the South, and the Cascades peeking through viewsheds to the East – Sarah Cassidy, the Education Director at Oxbow Farm guided us past mounds of row crops. Only the collard greens had weathered...

January 15, 2014
This week the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing testimony in a case (Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust et al., v. United States) that could have national consequences on rails-to-trails projects. The case is about whether the U.S. Government has a right to the land they granted to the railroads in the late 1880’s. SCOTUSBLOG has...

December 31, 2013
What a year it has been… Below is a compilation of our top 10 most liked and most read stories from Facebook over the past year which highlights some significant accomplishments, fun events, new recreation improvements, and more. Enjoy!   1. BREAKING NEWS! Congressman Dave Reichert has just introduced legislation in theU.S. House of Representatives...

December 28, 2013
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The south side of downtown Seattle boasts some wonderful, off-road, regional trails, including the Mountains to Sound Trail on Interstate 90 with its new link through Dr. José Rizal Park, the SODO Trail along the Link light rail route, and the Elliott Bay Trail along the waterfront.   But connections between those trails are challenging for...

December 12, 2013
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106 Acres in Raging River Conserved One of the Greenway’s longtime conservation priorities has been to connect Tiger Mountain and the Cedar River Watershed with publicly-owned lands south of I-90. Much progress has been made in this area, with acquisitions on Rattlesnake and Taylor Mountains and in the Raging River State Forest to provide...