Fly fishing in Wisconsin. Photo by Elvis Kennedy
The WDNR just issued a notice concerning the annual spring hearing of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress. The hearing will be a three day virtual event beginning on April 12. The virtual format makes expressing your opinion on a variety of conservation issues facing the state convenient.
The questions fall into two categories.
The first concern changes to fishing and hunting regulations that the DNR proposes to take effect soon. The second are advisory questions in which either the DNR Board or the Congress has an interest.
The latter category has some questions on broad and important topics such as climate change. Not as clear is the extent to which policymakers such as the DNR Board, legislators, or the governor attend to the results.
The DNR press release and its links provide all the questions for which input is sought and clear explanations of when and how to participate.
Please take the time to do so. If enough of us ask at every opportunity for Wisconsin to renew its now tattered tradition of conservation and environmental protection, policymakers will eventually listen and act. That's what I hope at any rate.
Thank you,
Topf Wells, Madison Audubon board of directors and advocacy committee chair
