DOE staffers will attend second public

Staff members from the state Department of Ecology will attend a second meeting in Colfax on Feb. 13.

Whitman Conservation District chairman Walter Riley confirmed that DOE will attend at 3 p.m., immediately following the conservation district’s meeting at 1 p.m. at the county’s Public Service Building.

Riley said the DOE staff will follow up with answers to questions brought up at the last meeting held in December.

Farmers and livestock producers crowded the Public Service Building auditorium Dec. 12. Because so many landowners were upset by DOE letters they had received, the conservation dis...