One acre of wetlands can hold a lot of water, experts say:
'develop' trash nature's flood-mitigating sponges, including:
* Two of Walker's first actions as Governor in early 2011 - - his interruption of a wetland-filling permit review on behalf of a donor developer and his direction to the Legislature to begin rolling back wetland-filling prohibitions statewide.
* The bill Walker signed in 2012 in front of happy real estate interests that enabled more development in wetlands. Special interests crowed about their inside influence.
* By 2015, wetland-filling in Wisconsin was taking place "at the fastest pace in at least a decade" thanks to the eased laws.
Walker's office even trashed federal wetland protections it spuriously blamed for the collapse of the plan by an out-of-state mining company to clear cut the Bad River watershed, when in fact the company itself said the area was too wet to successfully mine.
* Walker signed more legislation in 2015 to spur wetland and shoreline development.
* By 2017, Foxconn was given by Walker and his legislative supplicants key exemptions at the behest of big business from an environmental impact statement review on its 3,000+ rural site, and wetlands there were specifically exempted from routine state protections.
About which downstream Illinois is none too happy, given Racine's flooding history.
A complete archive of posts about Foxconn is here.
* By 2018, Walker had signed into law the removal of state protections from an additional 100,000 wetland acres.
In 2017 the DNR granted permission to an out-of-state sand mining company - - since reversed by a judge - - for the bulldozing a rare timbered wetland, and in 2018 the DNR approved a wetland-filling permit for a controversial golf course development in a heavily-wooded, rare-dune-rich nature preserve - - now being challenged in court.
If only Walker had as much interest in filling thepotholes Scottholes on the nation's second-worst roads he won't properly finance.
According to the EPA, one acre of wetland can hold roughly a million gallons of water...A wetland can hold up to three feet of water over an acre.” [former DNR wetland program manager Tom] Jerow adds.“So as Southern Wisconsin deals with historic, devastating flooding, you might thank GOP legislators, some real estate interests and Scott Walker-the-wetland-killer for all they've done to
* Two of Walker's first actions as Governor in early 2011 - - his interruption of a wetland-filling permit review on behalf of a donor developer and his direction to the Legislature to begin rolling back wetland-filling prohibitions statewide.
* The bill Walker signed in 2012 in front of happy real estate interests that enabled more development in wetlands. Special interests crowed about their inside influence.
* By 2015, wetland-filling in Wisconsin was taking place "at the fastest pace in at least a decade" thanks to the eased laws.
Walker's office even trashed federal wetland protections it spuriously blamed for the collapse of the plan by an out-of-state mining company to clear cut the Bad River watershed, when in fact the company itself said the area was too wet to successfully mine.
* Walker signed more legislation in 2015 to spur wetland and shoreline development.
* By 2017, Foxconn was given by Walker and his legislative supplicants key exemptions at the behest of big business from an environmental impact statement review on its 3,000+ rural site, and wetlands there were specifically exempted from routine state protections.
About which downstream Illinois is none too happy, given Racine's flooding history.
A complete archive of posts about Foxconn is here.
* By 2018, Walker had signed into law the removal of state protections from an additional 100,000 wetland acres.
In 2017 the DNR granted permission to an out-of-state sand mining company - - since reversed by a judge - - for the bulldozing a rare timbered wetland, and in 2018 the DNR approved a wetland-filling permit for a controversial golf course development in a heavily-wooded, rare-dune-rich nature preserve - - now being challenged in court.
If only Walker had as much interest in filling the
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