Rewriting the rules

Todd Ambs, the former water division head at the Department of Natural Resources, remembers when water wasn’t a divisive topic in Wisconsin.

“We used to have a bipartisan understanding that things like wetlands were so critical to our public waters that we should be zealously protecting them,” he says. “I can remember a time when even Republican members of the Legislature would say, ‘If you want to fill in a wetland in this state and you want to do it quickly, the answer’s no.’ That by design it should be difficult.”...

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Ken Notes: I remember as well. With the new legislative mindset we will have to demonstrate the positive economic impact of Wisconsin`s environment.