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As the summer heat adds to the West's significant drought, 8th District Representative Kim Schrier continues to point to the National Prescribed Fire Act as a possible solution to the massive fires in recent years.
Schrier said her bill would require the Forest Service and Department of the Interior to increase their controlled burn acreage by providing them both with $300 million annually for the work.
The newly proposed federal MAPLand Act would provide resources to digitize map records as part of an effort to improve access to public lands.
Representatives Blake Moore (R-UT), Ross Fulcher (R-ID), Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Kim Schrier (D-WA) recently introduced the Modernizing Access to our Public Land Act to digitize federal land mapping records.
"There are people that desperately want to know where they can go and enjoy these public lands," Congressman Blake Moore said.
8th District Representative Kim Schrier gave an update recently on some of her party's legislative priorities, among them being the For the People Act.
Schrier said that false claims of fraud in the last election are being used to justify creating laws that make it harder for people to vote.
"We want to make sure that everybody that is eligible to vote can cast their vote safely and that their vote is legitimately counted," explained Schrier.
Congresswoman Kim Schrier saw many elements of her proposed bill, the State Broadband Office Innovation Pilot, implemented by the U.S. Department of Commerce in its December spending bill.
Schrier said her bill was based on the Washington State Broadband Office's success leveraging partnerships to improve internet access, speed and capacity.
One of the major concepts to the legislation is that the more infrastructure decisions happen locally, the better those decisions usually are.
BONNEY LAKE, Wash. — Western Washington fire officials and lawmakers are urging residents to get prepared ahead of wildfire season.
Washington Representatives Kim Schrier and Marilyn Strickland hosted a press conference Wednesday with Pierce County fire officials who emphasized the importance of creating a "defensible space" around homes ahead of a projected warm and dry summer.
WENATCHEE — U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier of Washington's 8th District stopped by the NCWLIFE studios this week to talk about wildfire suppression, federal earmarks, the Jan. 6 insurrection, and a host of other topics. High on the list for the Sammamish-based congressmember and pediatrician: The National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021, which funds and mandates prescribed burning and forest thinning on federal lands.
Rep. Kim Schrier of Washington State's 8th Congressional District, talks with KOHO Morning Show host Chris Hansen about the diversity of public reactions to the current state of the pandemic within her voting jurisdiction. Schrier also discusses the 2021 wildfire season and a recent visit she made to several communities in North Central Washington.
Last spring, as the novel coronavirus spread around the world and the nightly news was full of closures, cancelations and grim warnings, we Americans were just coming to realize the once-in-a-generation crisis this virus would represent. And while today we have three approved vaccines and there are signs of a return to normalcy, too many of our friends and neighbors are still hurting.
U.S. Reps. Kurt Schrader (D-OR), Kim Schrier (D-WA), and Mike Simpson (R-ID) recently introduced a measure they said is designed to protect communities from the catastrophic impact of wildfires.
The National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021 would invest in hazardous fuels management by increasing the pace and scale of prescribed burns while also creating a preseason controlled burn workforce and streamlining smoke regulations in winter months.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers unviewed legislation Monday that will direct federal land management agencies to digitize and standardize mapping records. Supporters of the Modernizing Access to our Public Land Act, better known as the MAPLand Act, says this legislation will allow hunters, anglers, and millions of other federal land users to access essential information about public lands as well as their respective management agencies.