Maria Cantwell: “I think nationally we need about 300 to 500 more K9 units, and the training does take a long time and the certification…”

We just have to move faster.

At today’s briefing with Sec. Burgum, U.S. Wildland Fire Service Chief Brian Fennessy, and local fire chiefs, we discussed the next steps in responding to the fires and collecting information for a federal disaster declaration.

Returning 72 acres of the Quinault Indian Nation’s original reservation will restore the Tribe’s ancestral lands and help preserve one of the area’s last remnants of old growth forest as a living museum for future generations.

It is the transformative element that might get somebody from just existing to thriving again.