Natural Resource Industries

Vancouver and Seattle residents are striving for sustainability and are promoting local food and reduction of their carbon footprints. Skagit can provide local foods and goods to these markets and serve as a recreational destination using less than a tank of gas.

Ron Wesen will work to assure a viable future for the agriculture, forestry, marine, and tourist industries in Skagit County. As commissioner, Ron Wesen will make decisions that support and strengthen our existing industries. In a world economy that is reeling with uncertainty, retaining the ability to provide fresh and safe local products is an important investment in our community’s future.

Ron Wesen will oppose the construction of wetland mitigation banks on prime agricultural soils. Skagit has spent decades working to protect its farmland and salmon-bearing rivers. Filling wetlands for development makes no sense – it undercuts the progress we’ve made in restoring our waterways, hurts salmon populations, and increases flooding risks. Flooding prime agricultural soils to make wetland banks to replace the filled wetlands makes even less sense. Ron Wesen will bring common sense to land use decision-making, working to enhance our local natural resources, not undermine them.

Ron Wesen will support economic development and educational programs that build upon our local industries. Investing in local businesses and local children assures a bright future for the Skagit Valley. Teaching our children about our community and instilling in them a sense of their place here will make them strong advocates for this Valley and its way of life – the kind of citizens we all want to be. Ron Wesen will work to invest in local businesses by encouraging the Economic Development Association of Skagit County to not only continue, but actually increase its support to locally-owned and –operated businesses, which have already made a commitment to this Valley and its residents. Ron Wesen will support existing educational programs, such as those offered by the Skagit Conservation Education Alliance, and look for new opportunities to support our young people as they learn and grow.

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