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EPA Nitrate Study Appeal: Correspondence 0
- EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News
- July 8, 2019
Since mid-2018 dairy farmers and farm leaders from Washington, Oregon and Idaho have been meeting and corresponding with EPA officials about the Yakima Nitrate Report. Here is a collection of the written correspondence. April 30, 2019 Letter to Rep. Newhouse and Rep. McMorris Rodgers asking for assistance with the EPA nitrate report: Following a May
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Dairy farmers ask: Where is the Trump administration’s commitment to transparency in science?0
- Clean Groundwater, EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News, Press Releases
- July 3, 2019
Dairy farmers are appealing to EPA Director Andrew Wheeler to take long-delayed action on conducting a real peer review of the 2012-2013 EPA Yakima Nitrate Report. This follows a similar request submitted by Congressman Dan Newhouse of Yakima on June 26. After months of effort with new Region 10 Administrator Christopher Hladick, farmers have turned
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“It’s a safety issue” say two school superintendents asking the state to manage the imported elk herd in Skagit Valley 0
- A Future for Farming, Latest News
- July 3, 2019
Two school district superintendents are adding to the urgent calls for Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife to step up and manage the out of control imported elk population in Skagit Valley. Farmers have been complaining for years that the 600 plus elk imported improperly on the Valley floor have been causing damage toREAD MORE
Congressman Newhouse presses EPA for withdrawal of damaging EPA nitrate study 0
- EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News, Press Releases
- July 1, 2019
July 1, 2019 Dairy farmers from the Pacific Northwest have been appealing to the EPA for several months to address the false nitrate study published by Region 10 in 2012 and republished in 2013. This study has been used as the basis for EPA enforcement action that caused one farm to go out of business,
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Jason VanderKooy explains facts about drainage ditch buffers 0
- Latest News, Uncategorized
- July 1, 2019
For years some have been calling for shade buffers of at least 35 feet on the drainage ditches in the Skagit delta. As Skagit dairy farmer and farm leader Jason VanderKooy explains, this would do nothing help salmon or orcas but would make farming in this area almost impossible. Drainage ditches in this area are
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Skagit Farmers and Partners Demonstrate Leadership in Salmon Habitat Restoration 0
- Fish Habitat, Latest News, Managing Predators, Salmon Recovery, Stream Buffers, Sustainable Habitat
- June 27, 2019
Media reports and actions by the Salmon Recovery Council and the Puget Sound Partnership have suggested that the Skagit river system needs far greater attention in efforts to create more fish and salmon habitat. However, Skagit farmers, Skagit County and numerous partners have done remarkable work in restoring and creating new salmon habitat. Save Family
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Farm news leader highlights continuing problem with Skagit elk — how you can help 0
- A Future for Farming, Latest News
- June 14, 2019
The damage is well documented, the threat to children and the public is clear, the discouragement of farmers who have fought this for so long is understandable.
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Detailed Analysis of Falsified EPA Nitrate Study 0
- Latest News, Uncategorized
- June 11, 2019
We asked one of the nation’s leading agronomists, Richard Fasching, to do a detailed analysis of the EPA nitrate study and report. Mr. Fasching, now retired, is a former senior agronomist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. He initially reviewed the EPA study when it was first published
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