washington department of ecology

The Department of Ecology's (Ecology) Central Regional Office in Yakima plans to hire about 60 teens throughout Central Washington this summer to help clean up area roadsides, parks and recreation areas. Ecology Youth Corps (EYC) members also will learn how to better care for the environment...

A Kittitas County resident has been fined for changing the channel of Manastash Creek and causing extensive damage to the shoreline and creek bed on property northwest of the creek at Brown Road. Trees and other vegetation were removed from 700 feet of the shoreline, and the course of the creek was repositioned approximately 25 feet to the south without proper permits from county, state and