New Federal Stream Buffer Requirements

May 8, 2014
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Buffers of healthy trees and plants along rivers and streams are critical to salmon recovery. Plants near a stream help keep water cool and clean. Trees along the water provide food for wildlife, help to stabilize the banks, and the trees that eventually fall into the water provide a place for fish to hide...

April 30, 2014
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“Find a way to concurrently strengthen agriculture, restore salmon habitat, and reduce flood impacts in the Snoqualmie Valley.” This is the highly complex task that has been put before the Fish, Farm, Flood citizen advisory committee mandated by King County Council and overseen by King County Water and Land Resources Division (WLRD). River floodplains contain King...

April 25, 2014
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Kokanee salmon fry are swimming in Ebright Creek today. Fifth grade students from Campbell Hill Elementary School in Renton released kokanee salmon into the clear waters of Ebright Creek on the east shore of Lake Sammamish, as part of the fifth annual Kokanee Fry Release celebration. Kokanee are native to the Lake Sammamish watershed...

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...