Washington State Conservation Commission

Representative Joel Kretz has been appointed to the Farmland Preservation Task Force by Frank Chopp, Speaker of the Washington State House Representatives.  Representative Kretz replaces Representative Steve Hailey, who had served since the inception of the Task Force. 

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Dozens of school buses pulled into Horn Rapids Campground in Benton County on May 6 and unloaded excited students who have been raising salmon in their classrooms over the past year. They had come to release their finger-size fish into a tributary of the Yakima River and to celebrate the day by visiting learning stations throughout the park provided by a host of community partners. 

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