YKFA Correspondence Archive

2019:

  • Comments Opposing Grizzly Introduction into North Cascades – Letter  opposing first attempt to introduce Grizzly bears into the North Cascades.
  • Letter to Maria Cantwell – asking for her support for the Stellar Act which improves connectivity in rural areas.
  • Letter to WACO – The Washington Association of County Officials (WACO) decided to defeat the ability of land owners of small to medium parcels the benefit of Current Use taxation. YCFB lit a fire that spread rapidly with letters and phone calls (even from Irrigation Districts) and the house of cards imploded around the movement.

2020:

2021:

2022:

2023:

2024-2025:

YKFA Comments and Correspondence Regarding Energy Issues

Industrial Solar Complexes

If you look closely at the photo on the right, you can see orange/red residue on the solar panels in areas closest to where the fire approached. The amount of fire suppression exerted to protect the solar complex was unprecedented. If Lund Hill was not situated there, those resources could and should have been allocated to saving more ranches and farms and would have provided a better defense to the town of Bickleton which was in a stage 3 “Leave Now” order for quite some time.

In the event the solar complex had caught on fire, the Fire Boss was going to evacuate his fire fighters due to toxic smoke concerns.

On this basis alone, do large Solar complexes situated in wildfire prone areas make any sense?