WILDLIFE -- Gov. Jay Inslee has re-appointed Kim Thorburn of Spokane to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission.  Thorburn, a physician, active birder and former director of the Spokane Regional Health District, was featured in an S-R Outdoors profile recently.

Inslee also brought the number of women on the nine-member citizen panel to three by appointing Barbara Baker of Thurston County, to succeed Conrad Mahnken, of Bainbridge Island. Mahnken, who served on the commission for 11 years, did not seek re-appointment when his term expired at the beginning of this year. No further official details were immediately available on Baker, but sources say she’s an attorney who just resigned or retired as chief clerk of the Washington House of Representatives, a position that she held for 13 years. She resides on a house boat in Olympia. She’s a passionate outdoors woman but neither a hunter nor angler. She’s very interested in public lands.

The other woman on the commission is former chair Miranda Wecker, a retired attorney/administrator/consultant from Naselle.

The commission, which met last weekend in Vancouver, re-elected Brad Smith chair and Larry Carpenter vice-chair.  Smith is the former dean of the Environmental Science program at Western Washington University in Bellingham.  Carpenter lives in Mount Vernon and is the owner of Master Marine Services, Inc.