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FY15 Annual Report JULY 1, 2014 - JUNE 30, 2015 Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust ANNUAL REPORT 2014-15 Mountains to 40,362 4,739 HOURS spent by volunteers Sound Greenway Trust PEOPLE building trails, planting trees, volunteered 50% maintaining native plant nursery, with us YOUTH and removing invasive weeds mission The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust 75MILES 15,520 leads and inspires action to conserve TRAIL work NATIVE TREES AND and enhance the landscape from Seattle completed SHRUBS planted across the Cascade Mountains to Central Washington, ensuring a long-term volunteers balance between people and nature. education 5,114 +52% INCREASE STUDENTS participated student involvement in in the education program land stewardship activities 3,789 National Heritage Area vision new ENDORSEMENTS An iconic 1.5 million-acre landscape secured that conserves a healthy and sustainable relationship between land and people by national balancing built and natural environments. A landscape providing places for nature and wildlife, for outdoor recreation and heritage area education, for working forests and local ACRES of new lands agricultural production, while embracing conserved in the Greenway media vibrant urban areas with strong economies. 43,770 A landscape supported by a broad cross- section of society, working together as an effective coalition to preserve this heritage for future generations. 53,681 3,819 VISITORS to our website FOLLOWERS on www.mtsgreenway.org Facebook/Twitter recreation national heritage area Community asks Congress to designate the TESTIMONY Crafting a vision for the Middle Fork Snoqualmie. Once a haven Greenway as a National Heritage Area. for illegal activities, the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River Valley has been “By recognizing the reclaimed as a recreation destination after 20 years of land conservation • Legislation gained great momentum in the value of this landscape and cleanup by many individuals and organizations. This year we built a 2013-2014 Congress, passing out of committees in an official manner, we new Mailbox Peak Trail and parking lot, secured funding for recreation in the Senate and the House, but narrowly can raise awareness that projects, and led discussions on how to manage increased use after road these corridors are a key missed being included in a final vote. reconstruction is completed in 2016. element of our national • In the 2015-2016 Congress, legislation was infrastructure, capable rapidly reintroduced, backed by strong bipartisan of inspiring active living Mt. Teneriffe road-to-trail conversion. Working in partnership with and enabling equitable support from our congressional delegation. the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, we converted 5.5 access.” miles of former forest road on the slopes of Mt. Teneriffe to a hiking trail • Hikers, climbers, bikers, paddlers, and outdoor – Peg Staeheli, Founding that ascends to the top of this 4,800-foot peak. enthusiasts from Outdoor Alliance added their Principal, SvR Design Company voices in support, raising over 3,000 petition signatures in just a few weeks in spring 2015. “The connection Repairing trails in Kittitas County. We worked with the Back Country between people and Horsemen of Washington and the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest to • 5,580 businesses, organizations, governments, nature in this region is a do needed maintenance on the Dutch Miller Gap, Waptus River, and Pete and individuals endorsed the campaign. truly special heritage.” Lake trails. This was also the second year of a pilot program for backcountry – Michael Egeck, • For latest updates about the campaign, visit President/CEO, Eddie Bauer volunteer events, bringing volunteers out for an extended weekend of trail GreenwayHeritage.org maintenance to work on trails not accessible during single-day events. endorsers state legislature invests in Greenway BELLEVUE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE • EDDIE BAUER RAGINGWOULD BERIVER COOL MOUNT TO HAVE SI ANTIGER INFO MOUNTAIN GRAPHIC LOCAL ROOTS FARM • FILSON • SUMMIT AT SNOQUALMIE IRONHERE HORSEAT BOTTOM TUNNELS IF HAVEE. LAKE SPACE?? SAMMAMISH EX: LIST TRAIL THE NATURE CONSERVANCY • RAILS-TO-TRAILS CONSERVANCY OF ALL THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECREATION MIDDLE FORK SNOQUALMIE TANEUM CREEK BROOKS SPORTS • STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION AVAILABLE IN THE GREENWAY education land conservation The Greenway Trust worked closely with public land management agencies New intensive learning experience. We developed new curriculum and other conservation partners to conserve: for Two Rivers School to allow students to dig in deep for a more intensive outdoor educational experience. Students met monthly for six months for 41,500 acres Forests for Our Future. Acquisition of nearly all of in-class lessons, field study trips, and hands-on ecological restoration at The Nature the remaining Plum Creek checkerboard lands in Kittitas Ribary Creek. County. The second largest land deal in the history of the Conservancy "Personally this is Greenway spans both sides of I-90 on the eastern slopes of 'Chef to Farm'. Culinary students from Lake like a dream come the Cascades between Snoqualmie Pass and Cle Elum. Washington Technical School visited local farms true to see students as part of a new class called Trends in the Food investing in a special Cole Butte & Thetis Creek. Conservation of the very 1,507 acres Industry, co-developed by the Greenway Trust. outdoor situation last two sections of Plum Creek timber lands in the upper Trust for Public The class fosters an appreciation for where food and learning how to observe and preserve Yakima Basin. These properties connect wildlife habitat in Land comes from and how it is grown. it. I believe this project an essential north-south corridor through the Cascades, and will make many of its preserves the Pacific Crest Trail corridor. Snoqualmie Valley report. We launched participants better a new publication, called the Snoqualmie protectors and more 'Snapshot', that describes the forests, farms, Keechelus Ridge. Protection of wildlife habitat near the 80 acres appreciative denizens fish, recreation, education, and heritage of the two planned I-90 wildlife crossing structures at Snoqualmie Forterra of their homes in our Pass. Conservation of this parcel will help elk, bear, cougar, Valley, the health of the river basin, the challenges watershed" facing the region, and how residents can make a and other animals move north-south in a habitat pinch point – Joe Bergener, along the Cascade Range. positive difference in the future of the Valley. Two Rivers School Foster Farm. Conservation easement on a Carnation 135 acres education family farm with a half mile shoreline of the Snoqualmie King County River south of the Tolt River confluence, adding to the 52% INCREASE IN 5,114 STUDENTS PARTICIPATING STUDENT INVOLVEMENT IN connected conserved lands from Tolt MacDonald Park to LAND STEWARDSHIP ACTIVITIES 21,934 STUDENT HOURS Maes Lake Forest. EIGHT CURRICULA BASED ON LOCAL ECOSYSTEMS community partnerships habitat restoration The secret to 24 years of success comes from our ability to effectively Carter plants 100,000th tree. Last October, we Restoration Sites convene a broad-based, bipartisan coalition of local stakeholders. celebrated the planting of the 100,000th tree funded Bear Creek by Carter Subaru and Carter Volkswagen since 2008 Bessemer Mountain Camp Korey through the campaign. Wildlife Bridges. Construction began on a 150-foot overpass near Lake On the Road to Carbon Neutral Chinook Bend Keechelus, which will connect publicly-owned forest lands on both sides of This unique partnership continues to make a significant Discovery Park the freeway. This new wildlife bridge, a part of Washington State Department impact to restore forest canopy in the Greenway. Echo Glen of Transportion's I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project, will be covered with Gallagher Hill Tolt River restoration and education. We joined Grouse Ridge native vegetation to provide forest cover and safe passage for wildlife. Hope Creek forces with Remlinger Farms and the Girl Scouts of Issaquah Creek Trailhead Shuttle. In an effort to ease congestion in the popular Mount Si Western Washington to restore more than three acres Lake Samm. State Park recreation area, a pilot trailhead shuttle was launched during summer 2015. along the Tolt River. The project involved working Luther Burbank Park The shuttle, run by Compass Outdoor Adventures, is a collaborative effort with local volunteers and conservation corps crews to Mercerdale Hillside with City of North Bend, Washington State Department of Natural Resources, remove invasive weeds and plant native trees, as well as Mitchell Hill the Greenway Trust, and Washington Trails Association to connect people engaging 3rd-12th grade students in on-site education Mount Si NRCA Northcrest Park with recreation opportunities and historic downtown North Bend. and restoration activities. Oxbow Farm Park Pointe 25th Anniversary Trek. Hundreds of local citizens hiked and biked across Public/private partnership to control weeds. Rattlesnake Mountain the Greenway from Ellensburg to Seattle to celebrate the 25th anniversary We worked with Washington State Department of Ribary Creek Sammamish Cove of the original Greenway March, where the concept of a Greenway along Natural Resources to survey and control weeds on Snoqualmie Point Park Interstate 90 was born and citizens were inspired to thoughtfully shape our Tiger Mountain, in the Middle Fork and Mount Si region’s growth. Snoqualmie River Natural Resource Conservation Areas,
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