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Advocates say a large conservation project proposed in northern Wisconsin makes both financial and ecological sense, but this week a state Legislative committee denied stewardship funding. It’s a complicated story that illustrates Wisconsin’s cloudy conservation funding landscape.
The Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee denied state funding for the Pelican River Forest project during its meeting Tuesday morning.The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board approved in November using $4 million dollars from the Knowles Nelson Fund to purchase conservation easements on roughly 56,000 acres.