SCAR has a duty to those living in the Soos Creek Watershed area to provide information of general interest that may have an impact on their living here.  In that regard the following URL is a newsletter from King County Parks with many newsworthy items that have a positive effect on our living here.  Included is a survey you may like to take providing direction to the KC Parks … [Read more...]

King County provides many ways to promote and fund activities that are beneficial to the community.  Check out the following web site for their most recent offerings. https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dnrp/nature-recreation/parks-recreation/king-county-parks/grants= … [Read more...]

This year King County will be completing a Comprehensive Plan which will affect our future. Roads, housing developments, parks and trails, agricultural and forest lands as well as commercial/industrial developments (ie rural businesses, gravel mines, asphalt plants, etc.) are all to be … [Read more...]

SCAR’s continuing efforts to make the public aware of ecological impacts by water pollution on the salmon populations and therefore the Soos Creek Salmon Hatchery, presents the following articles that appeared in the Seattle Times.  PacRac has been generating hundreds if not thousands of pounds of tire wear particles around their race tracks for nearly 50 years with no effort to cleanup or … [Read more...]

The Seattle Times has two articles describing the impacts (poisoning) on salmon populations by a tire compound which is a major concern for the salmon hatchery located just downstream of Pacific Raceways where racing vehicles create significant quantities of this material. It would be very helpful if you would write a letter to or email King Co. officials about this problem suggesting that … [Read more...]