There’s one thing people in this area never complained about when Jaime Herrera Beutler represented us in Congress, and that was her constituent service and her focus on the specific needs of our community.
She listened to local needs and she responded.
Now, she is running for Washington state public lands commissioner. Her support includes foresters, labor unions, tribal leaders, working families and recreationists. They support her because they know she’ll take a balanced, science-based approach to managing forests and other public lands.
Herrera Beutler has a welcome plan for fire resilience and resistance. The record for largest fire in Washington state history stood for over 100 years. That record was broken three times in the last decade.
The public lands commissioner is pushed by organizations opposed to any logging. They want the trees left standing and, when the trees die, they want them left to create a more natural forest. The problem is that dead trees become tinder and unmanaged forests burn more quickly. With the state holding more than 3 million acres of forest land, the way they are managed has an enormous impact.