OPINION: Stewardship under attack in the Walker era

Wisconsin is a place that prides itself on our clean and abundant water.

Each of us expects and deserves access to safe water to drink and the reassurance that our state policies reflect a long-term commitment to safeguarding the quality and health of our shared natural land...

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Ken Notes: The solution here is a public private partnership. We have made this issues totally political when it should be economic to establish the value of our environmentally sensitive lands. I like the offset provisions and would like to see a 2 to 1 or higher ratio.

I have also proposed environmental TIF developments to allow private use of some lands and the placing the rest in a public trust with acquisition paid for by the property taxes on the private lands.