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Perry Homestead Brook have also factored into decisions by the province’s environmental assessment board against applications for water storage licenses in the area.
Yet the concerns of Whatcom farmers regarding these long- standing issues don’t seem to have registered.
BC Ministry of Agriculture staff were unable to say whether or not December’s letter from the Washington State Department of Agriculture was being acted on. BC Agriculture Council executive director Reg Ens said there’s a measure of international co-operation through the BC- Washington Environmental Co-operation Council, but that his organization hasn’t been in touch with farm organizations in the US. “I don’t have enough resources to chase everything,” he said. “This is an intergovernmental discussion at this point. We’ll just continue working with the people we are working with to look at what our best practices on farms are and make sure we’re trying to implement those best practices as much as we can here.”
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Many properties in the area of Perry Homestead Brook are equestrian operations, and Ens noted that the past three years have seen
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greater efforts to encourage members of Horse Council BC – one of the BCAC’s constituent organizations – to develop environmental farm plans. “[We’re] encouraging them to do environmental farm plans in that area because a lot of small farms can actually create the same problem as one larger farm,” Ens said. However, no one from HCBC responded to a call for comment on the allegations of damming and water contamination.
Common practices needed
Baron says that the farmers he represents would like to see producers on both sides of the border working together to protect the environment fundamental to the pursuits of both. Common practices would also help protect farmers on both sides of the border against charges from conservation groups that claim farmers aren’t doing their part to protect the environment. “[Whatcom] farmers are not trying to point any fingers at any individuals over there or even farming in general,” he said, referring to BC farmers. “The point is that farmers are under a lot of pressure in Whatcom County relating to water issues, both water quality and water access into the streams. With these things coming at us, we need to find a way to respond.
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