The Cross Family Story - Washington Dept of Ecology harassment

In 2016, the Washington State Department of Ecology began a targeted harassment program accusing small farmers and property owners of having a "potential to pollute" the watershed because they have an animal on their property. In Whatcom County alone, many people were forced too euthanize or give away their pet goats, sheep, horses, llamas, or other farm animals to avoid the targeted legal and financial threats from the Washington State Department of Ecology. This agency never provided any evidence of pollution or real problems. The agency just said that a "potential to pollute" existed