Agriculture

King County Critical Areas Ordinance Strikes Again!

9/1/2025 By Cindy Alia

CAPR Fought Hard for Property Rights in the battle for property use in the 2005 Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO) Making.  What seemed a savage assault on a constitutionally fair and reasonable regulatory environment suffered in the name of environmentalism.  Now King County has almost completed its update to the CAO for 2025, and it is clear the lessons of the past have not become an intrinsic motivator for ordinance makers at the county.  They are in fact doubling down on such things as fish life, buffers, and more complicated and less equitable regulatory features.  

Here are the two most useful summary of information links, you can peruse them to see if there are features to the planned ordinance you find objectional.

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September 1, 2025

CAPR Banquet April 29, 2023

At the April 29 CAPR Annual Banquet Event the CAPR board and members enjoyed learning about beef produced by independent cattle producers with our Keynote Speaker Bill Bullard, R-CALF USA.  Bill discussed key issues in defending a healthy beef supply chain, the obstacles to the industry and those who want to support and enjoy the products of the industry.  We want to thank Bill for an eye-opening presentation!

Agriculture


March 11, 2023

Are We Damned to Lose Our Dams?

Cindy Alia, April 13, 2019

One significant and impressive way to turn back the tide on the flood of the green deal is citizen activism.  Well educated and informed citizens banding together reversed the Avista/Hydro One deal with information, science, and a passion to protect our clean hydropower, national security and independence. 

That same dedication is urgently needed by citizen activists now.  The craze of the most devoted and simplistically delusional green worriers is to continuously beat the drum of climate change to claim it requires our state’s dams must come down. 

Agriculture


April 13, 2019

When Government says they’re doing it for the ‘Greater Good’ – Watch Out | Wildlife Project is a Theft of Property Rights

Guest Column by Debra Tash 

January 22, 2019

The Planning Commission’s public hearing will be on January 31st , 8:30 AM at the County Government Center, 800 So Victoria Ave. Ventura.  

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Critical Areas


January 23, 2019

Citizens' Alliance for Property Rights Supports New Wolf Coalition

Cowboy Summit 2018

April 25, 2018

Ranchers came together for a day long summit to work with one another and Legislators with a full agenda and discussion of goals for Wolf Management.  Good progress was made and plans for achieving those goals were put in place.  The Cattle Producers of Washington and the Washington Cattlemen’s Association, along with the Washington Farm Bureau hosted and were led by Steve McLaughlin of the Northern Wolf Coalition.

Agriculture


May 5, 2018

CAPR Attends Bill Signing for Representative Van Werven's HB 2307!

Citizens' Alliance for Property Rights (CAPR) was pleased to accept on behalf of our membership an invitation from Representative Luanne Van Werven to attend the signing of her bill 2307!  This marks an important moment in the work CAPR has done to promote property rights, and to promote the recognition of the substantive rights of property owners - the legislature must acknowledge the validity, or legality of its acts, and that law-making has consequences.  We are enthused to see this bill reflects these ideals!  Representative Van Werven has with this bill taken an important step in protecting property owners and their rights.

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March 23, 2018

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