Eastern WA family ranch faces $3.7 million battle with state

Eastern WA family ranch faces $3.7 million battle with state

A fourth-generation eastern Washington family ranch is fighting with the Washington State Department of Ecology to retain grazing rights for their cattle on what is now being labeled as a protected wetland. The state is claiming King Ranch in Coulee City, about an hour and a half east of Leavenworth, is letting its cattle drink water from what the state considers a protected wetland, but the King family’s attorney, Toni Meacham, explained the wa…