Strong advocate for environment needed

The U.S. is in desperate need of another Gaylord Nelson, former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator and the founder of Earth Day. Nelson said, “The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture”.

The first Earth Day was in 1970 and it led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1971, the Clean Water Act in 1972, and the Endangered Species Act in 1973.

Today that conservation ethic is under assault both in Wisconsin and on the federal level. To Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and President Donald Trump, all environmental regulations are “burdensome,” as if they were put in place just to be a hindrance to good Americans trying to make a living. In reality those regulations were passed because there was a need for them...