yup. i love bellingham for that.

i second this. chuckanut is a great spot for all of that and more!

I want to say this with full honesty: It really depends on how deep the person is into black culture as part of their core identity. If its just color differences, people will be fine. There will be plenty of friendship to be found in shared interests. If the person is acting like a Velma though, for example, and being actively hateful just because a person is white ( and assuming privilage, racism etc)... then people will not bother trying to bridge the gap.

Unfortunately, Washington's farmers have gotten the legislature to enact a law protecting them from suits for creating a nuisance. It's RCW 7.48, and reads, in part:

>(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, agricultural activities conducted on farmland and forest practices, if consistent with good agricultural and forest practices and established prior to surrounding nonagricultural and nonforestry activities, are presumed to be reasonable and shall not be found to constitute a nuisance unless the activity or practice has a substantial adverse effect on public health and safety.

(2) Agricultural activities and forest practices undertaken in conformity with all applicable laws and rules are presumed to be good agricultural and forest practices not adversely affecting the public health and safety for purposes of this section and RCW 7.48.300. An agricultural activity that is in conformity with such laws and rules shall not be restricted as to the hours of the day or day or days of the week during which it may be conducted.

This doesn't mean they get off scot free. Their operations have to be consistent with good agricultural practices. And if your neighbor is polluting a creek, he's not exempt. I'd suggest you collect several water samples from the creek, at different times and locations along and downstream from his operation. If you can afford to have a lab test them yourselves, do it. If not, ask the county to do so. If this is really a salmon stream, you might consider contacting an environmental group like the Wild Fish Conservancy and asking whether they're interested in helping.

Or, another approach would be for you to take up falconry. Birds of prey just love fresh chicken.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Footer/Report-an-environmental-issue/statewide-issue-reporting-form

Just fyi

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Be more aggressive than him. Bullies hate it when the tables are turned and they are on the receiving end.

Write to your house district representative, they may be able to provide direction on the best agency reporting approach.

It is odd that the county did not react to NGPA land having trees cut down. Most of those areas are on unincorporated county land so who does the county say is responsible?

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Well, hello Ansel!

No kidding. It’s South of Downtown.

I deliver for Amazon and I’ve delivered in downtown Seattle and in the mountains off highway 2, and my black coworkers complained way more the more rural our routes got. Just relaying what they said.

Yeah anywhere east. I drive for Amazon and my coworkers face a lot more racism in the countrysides.

Racism in Seattle? Lmfao that’s hilarious. Seattle and WA as a whole unless you’re in a tiny bodunk town (Sedro, Squim, Port Angeles, etc) then racism is basically nonexistent. Stop trying to divide the WC. We ain’t racist here.

Hillbilly like living? Not much you can do. If your hoa is active you can try to fine them for violations but that's about it. You can always call the pd non emergency number and request a health and wellness check up. Keep in mind when you live on a farm you also have to deal with animals as well.

He will continue to be a bully as long as it works for him. Unless you think he'll start shooting or something, the whole neighborhood standing up to him is what it will take.

If the stench is that bad, there may be health and safety regs being broken, and perhaps there are standards for the keeping of that many animals. Some agency out there somewhere looks into things like that. Your county sheriff might be willing to mediate for you as well.

Well, I definitely just took a look at all of the places I'd normally expect to see address this in county code and came up pretty empty, so your best bet really is the state. Ecology and WDFW have the most teeth. Good luck.

Regular photo converted to black and white. I'd like to mess with infrared some day, but I don't have a modified camera.

The sky contrast is from using a circular polarizer.

There are good people wherever you go, & with that some bad ones too. Doesn't matter what corner of the world we are.

the one you were unable to identify.

Which boat is that?

Nah, the foliage would look white in infrared. Looks like they darkened the sky with a red filter though.

I see others have already suggested it, but definitely contact fish and wildlife and dnr if it looks like there is direct run off into the creek. Also, unincorporated areas of a county are still under a county government. Contact your county offices to find out who/which department you should talk to. If they're anything like Whatcom County, they'll be interested in knowing about any real or perceived threats to protected waterways/wetland areas.

This sub is for Washington State, not Washington DC. We're on the completely other side of the country.

You want r/washingtondc