Serving Pacific, Wahkiakum, and parts of Grays Harobr and Cowlitz counties.
Biography
PERSONAL:
Resident of Aberdeen. Married to Debra Thomas-Blake.
EDUCATION:
Aberdeen High School
A. S. Forestry, Grays Harbor C.C.
B. S. Environmental Studies, TESC
EMPLOYMENT:
10 years logging, Contract Forester for Weyerhaeuser Co.
3 years Environmental Specialist III, Dept. of Corrections
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS:
Agriculture & Natural Resources - Chair
Capital Budget
General Government Appropriations
ADDITIONAL COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS:
Joint Legislative Committee on Water Supply during Drought
Electron Dam Salmon Passage Work Group
Recreation on State Trust Lands Work Group
Council of State
Governments - WEST Legislative Council on River Governance
Western Legislative Forestry Task Force
Coastal Caucus
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:
Board member, Lower Columbia Community Action Council
Board Member, Grays
Harbor/Pacific County Food Bank Distribution Center
PUBLIC SERVICE:
Citizen activist lobbying for access to our natural heritage.
YEARS IN HOUSE:
Appointed 2002
LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES:
Family wage jobs
Education
Good natural resources policy