SPOKANE, Wash. — Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Superintendent of Arcadia 20 Transitional Hand Crew Ben Hood spoke with NonStop Local’s Belle Lewis about his experience developing the crew. Questions and responses have been edited lightly for clarity.
Belle Lewis (BL): Tell me about the process of getting this off the ground, because you’ve been here since the beginning. What was this like, creating this system?
Ben Hood (BH): Very interesting and challenging. And that’s what I was looking for. And my next position was something challenging, and I had certainly found it. There was nothing else that really we could use as a template. A lot of things that we were doing nobody had ever done before. There’s other state agencies with similar crews, but not exactly the way that we approached it…