Douglass B. Sutherland (born 1937), is an American politician who served as 14th commissioner of public lands of the state of Washington from 2001 to 2009.
As a student at Central Washington University, Sutherland spent his summers fighting wildfires in the forests of Northern California and Oregon as a smokejumper.
During that time the PSAQA led Pierce, King, Snohomish and Kitsap counties into compliance with the Clean Air Act's new standards.
In 2005, he was investigated for sexual harassment because of inappropriate touching and commenting to a younger female employee (who later resigned from the position).
[8] Major contributors include $100,000 from Weyerhaeuser; $75,000 from Rayonier; $50,000 from Glacier Northwest (the company currently strip mining and shipping from the Maury Island Aquatic Reserve);[17] and $25,000 from Sierra Pacific.
[8] Some of the cash and in-kind contributions directly to Doug Sutherland's campaign are also associated with Taylor Shellfish (a company under investigation for illegally harvesting geoduck on DNR managed public state tidelands).