Meteor Timber sought to fill about 13
acres of a rare white pine-red maple swamp in western Wisconsin. Above,
springs and seepages provide important habitats used by rare plants and
animals in a hardwood swamp in the Black River State Forest in Jackson
County.
A judge has declined to reinstate a key permit for a Georgia company seeking to build a controversial frac sand operation in Monroe County.
Monroe County Circuit Judge Todd Ziegler ruled Monday that the state Department of Natural Resources violated the law when it granted Meteor Timber a permit to fill 16.25 acres of wetlands for the $75 million project.