The threat to pristine land next to and even inside a popular state park on the Lake Michigan shoreline is getting more serious.
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board agreed at a regularly-scheduled meeting Wednesday to allow The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to begin amending the master plan which manages land use in and access to the popular, publicly-owned Kohler-Andrae State Park south of the City of Sheboygan.
The move by Wisconsin's resource policy and oversight Board despite organized opposition at the grassroots likely helps pave the way - - literally - - to accommodate construction of a privately-owned, high-end golf course in the 247-acre wetland/timber/rare-dune-and native peoples' artifact-rich nature preserve next door.
Meaning that the Board joins other public agencies smoothing way for the golf course and its well-connected prime mover, including:
* GOP Gov. Scott Walker's 'chamber of commerce mentality' Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has worked at no charge with the developer for about two years to refine permit planning;
* Walker's Department of Administration, which has placed no barriers to date to slow down a fast-paced effort by project developer Kohler Co. to annex the nature preserve to the City of Sheboygan from the smaller, neighboring Town of Wilson, where the nature preserve and local opponents are located.
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board agreed at a regularly-scheduled meeting Wednesday to allow The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to begin amending the master plan which manages land use in and access to the popular, publicly-owned Kohler-Andrae State Park south of the City of Sheboygan.
The move by Wisconsin's resource policy and oversight Board despite organized opposition at the grassroots likely helps pave the way - - literally - - to accommodate construction of a privately-owned, high-end golf course in the 247-acre wetland/timber/rare-dune-and native peoples' artifact-rich nature preserve next door.
Meaning that the Board joins other public agencies smoothing way for the golf course and its well-connected prime mover, including:
* GOP Gov. Scott Walker's 'chamber of commerce mentality' Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has worked at no charge with the developer for about two years to refine permit planning;
* Walker's Department of Administration, which has placed no barriers to date to slow down a fast-paced effort by project developer Kohler Co. to annex the nature preserve to the City of Sheboygan from the smaller, neighboring Town of Wilson, where the nature preserve and local opponents are located.
