Cascade Volcanoes • Entered by Laurie Kerr on March 12, 2020
Clark County Advocacy Meeting
March 9, 2020
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | |
| Post Admin hours | 0.5 |
| Activity Hours | 1.5 |
| Participants | 7 |
| Total Hours | 11 |
Key Issue: Multiple apply
Activity Type: Broadband Meeting (prep, implementation & follow up)
Key Partners: Cascade Forest Conservancy/Sierra Club
Landscape/area: Mount Saint Helens National Monument (112593 acres)
Short Description of Activity
7 Clark County Broads joined to discuss Clark County Advocacy issues. Susan Saul, Linda Buckley, Barb Fox-Kilgore, Laurie Kerr, Lorena Herron, Dolores Kueffler, and Lu Pinson attended. Susan mentioned that there was no new news regarding the proposed road across the Pumice Plain by the FS. Nor was there any news regarding the Ascot mining Exploratory Drilling, even though, they had been issued a permit for doing so. Cascade Forest Conservancy met with Wild Rivers to determine if we wanted to have the Green River designated as Wild and Scenic. The plastic bag bill in Washington has passed both houses and is up for Gov. Inslee to sign. He is expected to sign it. The Clean Fuels bill is stalled in the senate.
Healthy Habitat/Healthy Orca bill is Dead on Arrival. The Clean Air act is stalled. Washington Wolves report that one female wolf has been killed by a vehicle in an accident. There is some support for transporting wolves from the east side of the state to the west side. The Washington Wolf Report is available online. Laurie shared the progress on the Hanwick Trail. Several adjacent parcels of land have been selected as comparable parcels; however, since their values were not equitable to the parcel to be harvested, these adjacent parcels were not deemed potential sites for trades. Consequently, we are looking at doing more fundraising in the community for this purpose.
Reflection/Evaluation
This meeting went much better than the last. It was more of a discussion on the issues and I was very much pleased with both the turnout as well as the way the meeting was run. This group is a very committed and interested group of folks and I really am grateful for this as I could not run this myself as well as everything else I am trying to do!