Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler expressed serious concerns to U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt this week over a flawed conservation plan that will harm rural communities within Pacific and Wahkiakum Counties.
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U.S. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) introduced a bill today to permanently reauthorize the U.S. Forest Service’s (USFS) Special Forest Products pilot program that allows the sustainable harvest of special forest products on lands in the National Forest System. The program allows the public to harvest natural forest resources for personal or commercial use; these special products include mushrooms, roots, seeds, Christmas trees and firewood, among others.
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As this region’s federal representative, I’ve worked to protect our endangered species — from promoting a healthy Gifford Pinchot National Forest to boosting native salmon runs to brokering collaborative solutions that preserve endangered species such as the Oregon spotted frog.
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U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler expressed her support of the U.S. Forest Service’s (USFS) decision to release full Secure Rural Schools (SRS) funding. Herrera Beutler had been pressing USFS to use its authority to ensure communities were receiving the full payments.
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U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler urged the U.S. Forest Service today to release a portion of Secure Rural Schools funding to rural counties that had been previously withheld.
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Today, U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler successfully secured legislative protection for Pacific and Wahkiakum counties against an unnecessary halt on economic activity by U.S. Fish and Wildlife.
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U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler helped obtain funding for mental health resources, wildfire prevention, school safety measures, and efforts to fight the opioid epidemic in the spending package she voted for and the U.S. House approved today.
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Today, U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler helped the U.S. House advance a bipartisan bill reforming the care for federal forests by preventatively reducing the threat of catastrophic wildfire and protecting against insect and disease infestations while maintaining environmental safeguards.
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Today, U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and U.S. Forest Service Chief Tony Tooke urging the agencies’ new leaders to take action in helping alleviate the funding crisis in Skamania County and other rural communities with significant swaths of national forest.
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