Alternative Method Harvest Equipment ... Project Purpose: To purchase logging equipment needed to address the backlog of steep slope acres to reduce the potential landscape fire severity by breaking up forest continuity. ... Amount Requested: $7,200,000
Request $7,200,000 in FY2026 appropriations to purchase logging equipment for steep-slope acres to reduce wildfire severity on Yakama Nation lands.
Occurrences
Evidence
Cantwell’s FY2026 appropriations list says the Alternative Method Harvest Equipment project was requested by U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell for the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, with a stated purpose of buying logging equipment to address steep slope acres and reduce landscape fire severity; amount requested: $7,200,000.
Assessments
The promise was specifically to request $7,200,000 in FY2026 appropriations for Yakama Nation steep-slope logging equipment, not necessarily to secure final enacted funding. The evidence shows Cantwell’s official FY2026 appropriations disclosure listed this exact project, amount, recipient, and purpose as a request submitted by her office while she remained in federal office. That satisfies the promised action in the same term.