The Obama Administration today announced it supports legislation to preserve the Green Mountain Lookout authored by Reps. Suzan DelBene and Rick Larsen. The Green Mountain Lookout Heritage Protection Act would protect the lookout in Glacier Peak Wilderness that a U.S. District Court ordered removed following a lawsuit.
In a Statement of Administration Policy, the White House wrote,… Read more »
DARRINGTON -- Sen. Maria Cantwell says it's high time to get to work on a bill that would save the Green Mountain forest fire lookout from being pulled off the peak.
Cantwell, D-Wash., got a commitment from a Senate committee chairman Thursday that he will move ahead on the proposed bill to preserve the lookout, located in the Glacier Peak Wilderness of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National… Read more »
We are fortunate that Washington state's economy has a diverse array of strengths as we work to continue our recovery from the Great Recession.We build the world's best airplanes. We design software that's changed the way we work and socialize. We grow some of the country's best fruits and vegetables, producing, in fact, 92 percent of the nation's red raspberries. But… Read more »
A special guest will tour sites in the Skagit River Valley today. Nancy Sutley, the chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality will be in Mount Vernon to discuss the impacts of climate change on communities in Washington state.Sutley has been touring the country to talk about the climate action plan President Barack Obama unveiled in June.In Mount Vernon, she’ll be… Read more »
EVERETT -- Members of Congress are asking the U.S. Forest Service to delay plans to move the Green Mountain forest fire lookout out of the Glacier Peak Wilderness.Rep. Suzan DelBene, Rep. Rick Larsen, both Democrats who represent portions of Snohomish County, and a member of the House Natural Resources Committee sent a letter Friday to the chief of the Forest Service describing their… Read more »
The letter, to U.S. Forest Service chief Tom Tidwell, was signed by U.S. Reps. Rick Larsen and Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., and Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon. DelBene and Larsen are cosponsoring the Green Mountain Heritage Act, along with Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, D-Wash.The legislation passed out of the House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday, and appears headed for full… Read more »
Congresswoman Suzan DelBene issued the following statement today following the approval by the House Committee on Natural Resources of H.R. 908, which would protect the historic Green Mountain Lookout in the Glacier Peak Wilderness near Darrington, WA:“I’m extremely pleased by today’s action by the House Committee on Natural Resources to approve the Green Mountain… Read more »
We know from Ecclesiastes, there is a time to break down and a time to build up. When it comes to America's wild places, an ambidextrous Congress manages to build up and break down simultaneously.On the prudent-conservation side, the news is promising. Tuesday marked the culmination of a bipartisan push to expand Alpine Lakes Wilderness and designate the Pratt and Middle Fork… Read more »
Less than an hour’s hop by car from Seattle lies a glacier-cut terrain dotted with 700 lakes, Sitka spruce forests and bull-trout runs.It’s taken much longer — six years and counting — for Congress to approve an expansion of Alpine Lakes Wilderness, the closest federally designated wild lands to the Puget Sound metropolis.It appears the legislation may finally pass… Read more »
A long-requested U.S. House hearing on Tuesday saw unusual bipartisan agreement that the closest Cascade mountain valley to Seattle deserves protection, and that 22,100 acres in the mountains of eastern King County should be added to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area.The testimony should boost prospects that the legislation can be sprung from the House Natural Resources Committee. … Read more »
