Columbia Gorge Audubon Society v. Klickitat County

This land use case raises a number of procedural questions — questions of first impression.

The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation voluntarily dismissed its own petition for superior court review of an adverse decision of the Klickitat County Board of Adjustment. It then tried to intervene in an appeal that had been timely filed by the Columbia Gorge Audubon Society. The superior court denied the Yakama Nation’s motion to intervene. It found that the Yakama Nation had failed to perfect its own timely appeal within the 10-day limitation period for appealing the adverse…