Senator Maria Cantwell has been a champion of the Roadless Area Conservation Act (RACA) since she first introduced it as a bill in Congress in 2002. In fact, she's reintroduced the bill in the Senate ten times, including this past year.
The Island County Planning Commission held a public hearing on the final draft of the Comprehensive Plan on May 20, 2026, which continued to a date certain on My 27, where the commission approved the "findings of fact" presented by the county planning staff.