About Us

Citizens Protecting Resources is a Washington State non-profit corporation. We are your neighbors. We live in the Yakima Valley and raise our families here. We go to work every day, we are business owners, farmers, agri-tourism and wine industry proponents, and interested citizens that are invested in the Yakima Valley. We are taxpayers that are concerned about the future of the Yakima Valley.

We are devoting our time, energy and money to fight what we believe is a despoliation of the Yakima Valley at taxpayer's expense. We are dedicated to the proposition that life can and should be better here; that we have a bright future that deserves foresight and planning from our elected officials. We believe that officials should give thoughtful consideration to input citizens provide regarding County projects and plans. We believe that we can and should do better.

We have discovered that the relocation of the Douglas Automobile Wrecking Facility is a well-intentioned project gone bad.

The project will cost at least $800,000 of public money, benefiting only a few people, but paid for by all taxpayers. Moreover, the junkyard move endangers the aquifer for all neighbors, spoils the Donald "neighborhood", and sacrifices future tourism and economic development opportunities at the "headwaters" of the Lower Yakima Valley in order to satiate the desire of the Yakima County Commissioners to move a private business and make it a prototype for the future relocation of other junkyards.

We believe that County officials are right to move the Douglas wrecking yard off the island in the Yakima River, but they are moving it to the wrong location and they are doing it in the wrong way. It's just that simple.