Join Dan Hintz, restoration projects manager for the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, on a 2- 3 mile hike along Issaquah Creek to showcase over 15 years of restoration efforts to improve salmon habitat within Lake Sammamish State Park. Hikers will be able to observe the progress to date and learn more about upcoming plans to restore instream habitat with large woody material.

Trees along Issaquah Creek are critical components of healthy salmon habitat. Native vegetation shades and cools streams, improves water quality, and provides important habitat for salmon and other wildlife both big and small. Even though the basin has many areas of quality habitat and abundant wildlife, existing streamside habitats are still covered in invasive plants like Himalayan blackberry and Japanese knotweed. These plants provide very limited habitat for our native wildlife and prevent our native trees and shrubs from establishing along our creek corridors.

 Learn about how the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, Washington State Parks  and Friends of Lake Sammamish State Park have been working together to restore over 60 acres of habitat within Lake Sammamish State Park.

 Please RSVP to director@flssp.org.