In June 2023, District 1 Supervisor Heidi Hall was appointed to the board of the Western Interstate Region (WIR), an organization affiliated with the National Association of Counties (NACo), where she joins 29 other representatives from western state counties. Hall's goal in this new role is to ensure that California's rural needs, such as our interest providing more resources to manage and support recreation on public lands; overall wildfire concerns, such as insurance coverage and resources for vegetation management and evacuation planning, are heard at a higher level.
WIR promotes Western interests within NACo, including public land issues (use and conservation), community stability and economic development, and the promotion of the traditional Western way of life. Its membership consists of fifteen Western states, (Alaska, Hawaii, Wash., Ore., Calif., Idaho, Nev., Ariz., Mont., Wyo., Colo., N.M., Utah, N.D., S.D.) with membership funded through the individual state associations.
In addition to this new appointment to WIR, Hall serves on NACo's Public Lands Committee, where, over the past few years, she has helped to form a recreation subcommittee in to provide a formal way of addressing recreation on public lands.
