Kittitas Valley

A story in plot points: a federal map tracking the latest snowpack shows Oregon awash with royal blue, turquoise and green dots. In Washington state there…

Over at least two decades, Washington business owner Tod Reichert spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying exclusive hunting licenses he used to kill more than 100 elk. His license for the Ellensburg hunt, a “governor’s tag” auctioned to fund elk-related conservation efforts by state wildlife managers, cost him $50,000.