FOX · 2026-11-08 10:01 UTC

Inside a rancher family's clash with gov't that could have ripple effect right to SCOTUS: 'Existential threat'

Wade and Teresa King, owners of King Ranch in Grant and Douglas counties, were fined $267,540 in 2023 by the Washington State Department of Ecology for allegedly damaging regulated wetlands by digging stockwater ponds. The Kings say the areas are longstanding livestock ponds, not regulated wetlands, and they were ordered to restore them; the case must first go before the Pollution Control Hearings Board, which does not offer jury trials. A Washington Court of Appeals commissioner paused the board proceedings in September while the court considers whether the Kings are entitled to a jury…

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