Cantwell; NWWeekend editor Where : Roslyn, Kittitas County When : June 19-20 What : Roslyn hosts the Northern Lights Festival, part of the annual Greenway Days celebrating the Mountains to Sound Greenway, with festivals, hikes, bike rides, horse rides and more along Interstate 90 from Ellensburg to Seattle.
He spent a September day manning a shovel with Mountains to Sound Greenway volunteers, digging out holly on Tiger Mountain, a forest preserve east of Seattle.
Among the Global ReLeaf projects sponsored by Eddie Bauer this year are: * a multi-year effort to plant 100,000 trees in the Mountains to Sound Greenway in Washington state.
King County Executive Ron Sims announced a partnership with AMERICAN FORESTS, Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, and others to plant 200,000 trees in 2000 along the I-90 corridor.
Mountains to Sound Greenway says it had at least 4,000 such volunteers, while Mark Tomkiewicz of the Nature Consortium says 5,000 a year work in the Duwamish greenbelt.
King County worked with the state Department of Natural Resources and environmentalists to preserve this part of the Mountains to Sound Greenway along Interstate 90.
