Mountaineer Magazine: Spotlight on National Heritage Area Designation

November 15, 2013
Mountaineer Magazine arrived on our doorstep this week and includes a great article in support of a National Heritage Area designation for the Mountains to Sound Greenway. Thanks to our partner, the Mountaineers, for supporting this important legislation, and to our Board member, Tom O’Keefe, for writing the article! The Greenway Trust is working with...

November 4, 2013
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Students from Skyline High School in Issaquah had a close-up experience with death. Death of a salmon, that is, when they pulled a fish carcass out of Issaquah Creek while participating in a Mountains to Sound Greenway field study trip. These 9th grade students in Chris Wieland’s Biodiversity class were supposed to be finding...

October 25, 2013
This time of year, Greenway staff and volunteers are busy planting native trees and shrubs throughout the Greenway. Native trees are a vital part of our healthy forests and urban canopy. Trees improve air quality, reduce greenhouse gases, and provide shade to creeks which protects threatened salmon. Trees also reduce erosion and filter pollutants,...

October 11, 2013
Guest blog written by local historian John W. Lundin
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The Mountains to Sound Greenway encompasses part of the historic route of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (the Milwaukee Road) over Snoqualmie Pass. The Milwaukee Road was once billed as the longest electrified railway in the country, and played a key role in shaping transportation routes in the Northwest.

October 10, 2013
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“Interstate 90 is the gateway to the world for many agricultural products leaving the greater Inland Northwest. Many people, from farmers to employees to vendors, depend on world trade to make a living,” said Mark Anderson of the Anderson Hay and Grain Company of Ellensburg. Anderson and several other transportation advocates, business leaders, elected...

October 1, 2013
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The Teanaway transaction is complete.  The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) now owns an additional 50,000 acres in and around the Teanaway basin.  This is the largest single land conservation transaction in the 22-year history of the Greenway, and the largest state transaction in 45 years. This major land acquisition is a...

September 19, 2013
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As summer comes to a close, the opportunity to get out on the Greenway to see thousands of Pacific Northwest Salmon return to their natal streams from the Puget Sound and greater Pacific Ocean becomes tangible. The first rains in late August mark the beginning of a migration season that lasts till late November,...

September 5, 2013
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Drivers make their way east of Snoqualmie Pass among heavy earth-moving machines, with glimpses of workers clinging to steep hillsides above Lake Keechelus. From Hyak at exit 54 to Lake Easton at exit 70, Interstate 90 is becoming a whole new kind of highway. I-90 is the state’s busiest east-west transportation and freight corridor,...

August 19, 2013
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The Snoqualmie Valley Trail winds along the scenic Snoqualmie River, with majestic views of Mt. Si, picturesque farms and forests, wetlands full of nesting birds, and elk herds passing through historic Meadowbrook Farm. To improve access to this wonderful trail, King County Parks replaced a dilapidated timber bridge with a new steel girder bridge...

August 2, 2013
Another step closer to Teanaway Community Forest
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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...