Craig Sterrett of the Door County Peninsula Pulse reports that “support continues to grow statewide for a program that uses public funds to protect land and water and to provide for recreational opportunities and responsible forestry, according to a poll released this month.
“The support for conservation funding is at an all-time high,” said Charles Carlin, Director of Strategic Initiatives for Gathering Waters: Wisconsin’s Alliance for Land Trusts, after the December 9 release of polling statistics.
Sterrett also reports that “State Rep. Joel Kitchens (R-Sturgeon Bay) said this fall that there is bipartisan support for the Knowles-Nelson program, and he hoped the funding level could be preserved or increased.”
Read all of Sterrett’s in-depth coverage of the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program at the Peninsula Pulse.
