WI DNR was -ORDERED- by FEDs to close state park? Overreach/overplay?

[HereSince1628]

Mein Gott! I can't believe members of the Obama administration could be so dumb as to empower Scotty Walker to look like Ivanhoe fighting an oppressive central government.

Someone please tell me this is a fraud that was slipped into the newspaper.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-blames-lawmakers-in-both-parties-for-federal-shutdown-b99111708z1-226154141.html
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State DNR refuses federal directive to close some popular parks
Dappled sunlight falls on a hiking trail in the Kettle Moraine State Forest.
Journal Sentinel files

By Patrick Marley and Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel
Oct. 2, 2013


The state Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday refused a directive from the National Park Service to close a host of popular state properties because of the federal government shutdown.

The park service ordered state officials to close the northern unit of the Kettle Moraine, Devil's Lake, and Interstate state parks and the state-owned portion of the Horicon Marsh, but state authorities rebuffed the request because the lion's share of the funding came from state, not federal coffers.

State officials opted to keep public lands open as Gov. Scott Walker blamed both Republicans and Democrats for the partial government shutdown and said congressional leaders should run the nation more like Wisconsin. Democrats balked at those comments, saying the Republican governor has had a tumultuous tenure that has divided people.

Read more from Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-blames-lawmakers-in-both-parties-for-federal-shutdown-b99111708z1-226154141.html#ixzz2gez5geHU

[bananas]

1. Happened in 1995

Posted about it in LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014607495

Please read the full article in reply #1 in that thread,
some states used the National Guard to keep the parks open.

Also read reply #7 for another point of view.

[HereSince1628]

5. reply #1 seems to refer to national parks, not state parks...

Federal land is up to federal control, but making Walker into a hero seems like a political blunder to me.

Pushing partial federal funding to enact closure of state land makes the federal government a heavy handed enemy and plays perfectly into the hands of the Libertarian radicals.

[madrchsod]

2. here`s what i found...

http://www.iceagetrail.org/history

looks like the trail itself could be federal but it is within the state`s parks.

it would seem that this would be akin to the federal designation of "the great river road" along the upper mississippi.

[randome]

3. Hardly sounds like any kind of power struggle.

The article is biased to portray it that way.
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[reddread]

6. the word "dappled"

that was priceless.

[Scuba]

4. Any statements from the Walker administration should be taken with a large shaker of salt.