OPINION: Wisconsin`s next state budget should invest in stewardship

If COVID-19 has taught us one thing, it’s that nature is vital to our physical and mental health and well-being. If you are like me, you have been gratified to see, and felt connected in a small way to, the many people who are being drawn outdoors to our state and county parks, nature preserves, and the green spaces sprinkled within many of our neighborhoods....
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Ken Notes: I too strongly support the stewardship, but would love to see it strengthened and able to pair even more with private entities like land conservancies. I would also like to see a public access component that allows camping as well as hiking, biking, fishing, paddling. This would create more tourism dollars that we so badly need...