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On the other side of the Cascades the three year drought in the Yakima Valley creates uncertainty and hard decisions
Another good article about the effects of the third worse drought on record. Farming there is going from bad to worse.
Filed under: Climate Change, Eastern Washington, Global Warming, Washington State | Tagged: Climate Change Impact, Farming Challenges, Water Resource Management, Yakima Valley Drought |
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Steve my late wife Karen grew up over there. My current wife JoAnne was raised in Walla Walla and inherited a wheat farm that she sold last year. World famous chef Tom Douglas owns a farm in Othello and lives there part time. I try not to grossly lump farmers into catagories.It’s far too simplistic thinking. The apples, wine and wheat you eat come from there. I’ve known lots who were not government haters. but yes, just like here in Jefferson and Clallam counties there are some.
The Eastsiders tend to bristle at westsiders and Californians telling them how to run their farms and what they should be doing that’s “right”. It’s an old issue. The fallacy that “Cascadia” would somehow include the east side of the Cascades was always a naive thought. It never would.
Yes, I too know some small farmers over there—”back-to the land” organic type folks whom I’ve been acquainted with since the ’70s. I’m referring to the big farming/ranching operations who really have influence. Just look at who those Districts vote for & send to the other Washington.
I have staunch enviro-activist friends living on the west side of the Peninsula. I’ve also seen a lot more TRUMP & “FUCK BIDEN” etc. signs on that side than I do in east Clallam & Jefferson. I’m pointing the hypocrisy of a world view that government should only benefit certain people—who by & large tend to white, male & born into wealth & privilege.
These farmers are generally government-hating Republicans. The irony is without taxpayer-funded dams & water systems, as well as bargain-priced access to public lands, they couldn’t survive.