Goopy Gems: The Claylands of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie

March 6, 2013
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Issaquah Mayor Ava Frisinger awarded Margaret Macleod, City of Issaquah Interagency Coordinator, with the Ruth Kees Environmental Award for a Sustainable Community at a tree planting ceremony at Squak Valley Park. Margaret has worked for 20 years to secure millions of dollars in grant funding for land conservation and recreation enhancement projects in the...

February 21, 2013
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Have you ever gotten to a trailhead and weren’t sure if you should put a Discover Pass, NW Forest Pass, or Sno-Park Pass on your dashboard?  Here’s your guide to recreation passes! DISCOVER PASS Where Washington State-owned land For example: Lake Sammamish State Park, Lake Easton State Park, Tiger Mountain and Mt Si (owned by...

February 6, 2013
President Obama nominated Sally Jewell for the post of Secretary of the Interior. Jewell is a past president and a founding board member of the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust and the President and CEO of REI. “Sally Jewell is a respected leader and passionate advocate for conservation, recreation and outdoor education,” says Cynthia...

February 4, 2013
A quick drive over snowy Snoqualmie Pass, fueled by coffee and talk of hiking, adventuring, and fun jobs, landed Greenway representatives in Ellensburg. Teacher Ali Parizer, Intern Noah Pylvainen and Education Program Manager Sally Kentch staffed a Greenway booth at the e3 Winter Fair, organized by Kittitas Environmental Education Network (KEEN) to celebrate the...

December 18, 2012
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. And what a wonderful year in the Mountains to Sound Greenway… new public land acquisitions, improved recreation access, critical wildlife habitat preservation, ecological restoration, and so much more. Here are 25 Reasons to Celebrate the Greenway in 2012: 1. More lands added to Raging River State...

December 15, 2012
In late October, Valhalla Elementary students traveled to Tiger Mountain for a field study trip with educators from the Greenway Trust. The focus of our study was “What makes a healthy forest/stream environment for salmon?” Students measured water quality, mapped the riparian zone, counted macro invertebrates and had an opportunity to explore the forest....

December 12, 2012
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On a dark Thanksgiving morning, my cousins and I, each of us a non-native Pacific Northwesterner, drove the 45 minutes to Mt. Si, ready to climb the mountain I had hiked as a child with my family while visiting Washington State. As we pulled up to the trailhead parking lot at Mt. Si, I...

November 20, 2012
When I was 10 years old, my family got our first taste of hiking. It was at the beginning of our “let’s-go-out-west-and-indulge-our-travel-bug” phase where my family of 10 took extensive trips to explore the west 3 summers in a row. We drove out to Seattle from Detroit in 1999 taking our first big van...

October 24, 2012
Re-posted with permission from the American Red Cross
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Calling all volunteers! The Kittitas County Chapter of the American Red Cross is hosting a tree planting event in Cle Elum this Saturday, October 27th, as part of “National Make a Difference Day“. The event, entitled “Operation LORAX“, will give volunteers the opportunity to plant trees in efforts to restore areas of the county damaged by...