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King Ranch, Coulee City Washington Damaged Wetlands or Decades Old Man-Made Stock Watering Ponds?
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Don Jenkins- Capital Press
The Washington Department of Ecology wants to pick up where the U.S. Supreme Court left off!
Terra Ochsner- Western Ag Reporter
The King family, pictured, is fighting back against
Ecology’s fines and criminal suits alleging damage to 23 alkali wetlands on their owned and leased property. Photo courtesy of the Kings
Ecology’s fines and criminal suits alleging damage to 23 alkali wetlands on their owned and leased property. Photo courtesy of the Kings
Charles H. Featherstone- Herald
The King Ranch in the Coulee City WA area has been fined for damaging protected wetlands both on its property and on nearby state land.
Colin Tiernan- The Spokesman-Review
A Grant County ranch owes Washington’s environmental protection
agency more than a quarter-million dollars after damaging nearly two dozen rare wetlands.
agency more than a quarter-million dollars after damaging nearly two dozen rare wetlands.
John Stuhlmiller- Ketch Pen
There Are Always Two Sides To Every Story.
Carol Ryan Dumas- Capital Press
A lawsuit has been filed challenging the federal government’s
interpretation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest ruling on Waters of The United States, or WOTUS.
interpretation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest ruling on Waters of The United States, or WOTUS.
John Stuhlmiller- Capital Press
Ecology admits these ponds are isolated from other surface water, and believes the activities were done for stock watering, but insists on calling the activity “pollution."
Carol Ryan Dumas- Capital Press
Mike and Chantell Sackett of Priest Lake, Idaho, who prevailed against the Environmental Protection Agency and
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Waters of the U.S. case.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Waters of the U.S. case.
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