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Bipartisan legislation introduced for critical landslide preparedness

landslide preparedness

BELLEVUE—Today, Representatives Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03), and Dan Newhouse (WA-04) reintroduced the National Landslide Preparedness Reauthorization Act. This bipartisan legislation will help save lives, protect communities and property, and improve natural disaster emergency preparedness by targeting key gaps in science and mapping critical landslide hazards.  Following the 2014 Oso […]

Volunteer Timber Framers raise portals to honor victims of the 2014 Oso Mudslide

By Snohomish County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism | Press Release After a seven-month delay, two hand-crafted wooden portals were raised across the Whitehorse Trail to honor the 43 slide victims, their families and the community. OSO, Wash., October 9, 2020 – Snohomish County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism and the Timber Framers Guild raised two wooden […]

Former Snohomish County Executive Gary Haakenson reflected on the Oso Landslide

Oso Landslide

By LUKE PUTVIN | Last Updated October 3, 2019 On September 21 at the Lynnwood-Alderwood Manor Heritage Museum, Former Snohomish County Executive Gary Haakenson reflected on the Oso Landslide. Occurring on March 22, 2014, the Oso Landslide took the lives of 43 people. It was the deadliest landslide in United States history. Haakenson recalled the […]

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