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September 19, 2012
Re-posted with permission from WA DNR.
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Commissioner’s Volunteer Hero Award was established to salute DNR’s volunteers who have dedicated their time, enthusiasm, and efforts to support several of DNR’s programs. This award not only recognizes an outstanding volunteer who has shown tireless commitment, it also celebrates all of DNR’s valuable volunteers. This is your...

August 17, 2012
As most of you may now know, there is a wildfire devastating parts of Kittitas County, near the Cle Elum area. Even though the Greenway Trust’s main office is located in downtown Seattle, our hearts are in Kittitas County as our friends on the eastern side of the Mountains to Sound Greenway struggle to...

July 25, 2012
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
Biking through the Snoqualmie Tunnel with 140 other outdoor enthusiasts should be on everyone’s bucket list. I guarantee that this icy (34 degrees!), historic, pitch-black (headlights not optional), multi-use trail tunnel (watch out for hikers and horses) will be the coolest 2.3 miles you have ever biked. After dodging a few people who had...

July 10, 2012
Re-printed with permission from WA DNR.
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) released a survey today to gather input on how the public would like to see recreation managed on 53,000 acres of DNR-managed state trust lands and conservation areas in the Snoqualmie Corridor (map). Your voice counts. This survey comes in the middle of a recreation planning process that began earlier...

July 6, 2012
Everyone knows The Mountains to Sound Greenway has some of the best hiking trails in this area. A rainy day hike to Granite Lakes a couple of weekends ago was no exception. With abundant hiking in the nearby Alpine Lakes Wilderness (the closest wilderness area to any major metropolitan area in the country!), it...

June 29, 2012
Recently we have been learning about biosolids- how they are made and where they are used. After the heavy organic solids (mostly human and food waste) are strained from sewage, they are composted with bacteria for about a month to remove pathogens. About half of these biosolids are then trucked off to commercial forests...

June 22, 2012
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
Did that headline come as a surprise to you? The findings certainly surprised me. Seattle consistently earns accolades nationally for walking and biking such as Walkscore’s 6th most walkable large city, Walkscore’s 7thmost bikable, and Bicycle Magazine’s 10th. However, at least in terms of U.S. Census commuting to work statistics, Ellensburg beats walking pants and cycling shorts off Seattle: The top...

June 18, 2012
Imagine walking through the forest with your eyes at the level of your knees. What would you notice? On a sunny morning, would it feel like you were swimming in shades of green with pools of light illuminating your path? Maybe if you were a toddler. The Greenway Education Program offered a family nature...

June 14, 2012
Reprinted with special permission from Renee Bodine, Public Affairs Officer, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest Service.
The eggs have hatched, but the chicks won’t be leaving home at the Deception Crag Wall until July 9th, keeping the wall off limits to climbers about a week longer than first announced. Biologists discovered the nesting peregrine falcons in April, and have been monitoring them ever since.  “We first noticed the wee ones...

June 12, 2012
Greenway Trust Priority Area:
Construction has officially begun on the new trail at Mailbox Peak. Scheduled to be finished in fall 2013, the new trail will offer hikers a much more sustainable route to the summit. It climbs the roughly 4,000 vertical feet in five miles, as opposed to the same gain in the existing trail’s two miles....