Now big Scott Walker donors from Lake Forest, IL, want DNR to OK huge project to keep bog away from

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George Stanley ?@geostanley 6h6 hours ago

Now big Scott Walker donors from Lake Forest, IL, want DNR to OK huge project to keep bog away from their lakefront http://buff.ly/1FreIIr




http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/uline-founders-want-massive-effort-to-anchor-floating-bog-b99583852z1-329667951.html?utm_content=bufferceeb3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Uline founders want massive effort to anchor floating bog
By Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel
Sept. 26, 2015


Google Earth
A 12-acre floating bog has obstructed lake access at Kavanaugh Bay on the Chippewa Flowage for landowner Richard Uihlein. The wealthy donor to Gov. Scott Walker is proposing a massive effort to move the bog north and fasten it to the lake bed. His home is shown on the south end of the bay and just north of a small pond.

A major political donor to Gov. Scott Walker wants state approval for a project designed to keep a 12-acre floating bog away from his northern Wisconsin property by permanently fastening it to the bottom of the lake..............


................'Preposterous idea'

The scale of the undertaking worries some people.

"This is the most preposterous idea that I have ever heard," said Brett McConnell, an environmental specialist in the conservation department of the Lac Courte Oreilles band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

"I would hope that every single person affiliated with the flowage would be opposed to this."

Tribal lands are located on a portion of the 15,300-acre flowage. The tribe signed an agreement in 2000 for a joint management of the flowage with the DNR and U.S. Forest Service.

The 56-page agreement says the tribe and the agencies "may control the location and size of floating bogs" if there are "significant navigational obstructions. Since they are important historically to the region, all efforts will be made not to move the bogs."

Doug Kurtzweil is a board member of the Chippewa Flowage Property Owners Association and was chairman of the group for 12 years until earlier this year.

"The whole idea with people who love the flowage is the semi-wilderness quality," he said. "Anytime you start manipulating it — and maybe it's a balancing act — but there is a line you sure don't want to cross that will turn it into Lake Geneva or Wisconsin Dells."

"Fifty pilings? Fifteen feet high? On the Chippewa Flowage? Semi-wilderness? You got to be kidding."

The DNR's Dick said it was premature for the agency to comment on the project at this stage.

He said if the DNR receives a permit application, there would be a 30-day public comment period. The project could also get a public hearing. Also, potential environmental impacts would be studied by the agency before Uihlein could move ahead.


Major campaign donors....................




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Sunday, September 27, 2015
Google Earth
A 12-acre floating bog has obstructed lake access at Kavanaugh Bay on the Chippewa Flowage for landowner Richard Uihlein. The wealthy donor to Gov. Scott Walker is proposing a massive effort to move the bog north and fasten it to the lake bed. His home is shown on the south end of the bay and just north of a small pond.

[pansypoo53219]

1. i KNEW i should have been mad when i read about this deal for RISH PEOPLE. i KNEW it.

now the civil service thing. UGH!

[Scruffy1]

2. I lived a few miles from there many years ago.

The very idea of anchoring a floating bog is just crazy. These bogs have been drifting around for a long time and are one the great features of The Chippewa Flowage.

[Archae]

3. There's a bog in the flowage my Mom live at...

Oconto county.

That bog has always been in the same spot.
It seems to be getting a little bigger over the decades, but it doesn't move.

There's no way anyone could ever move it, it's just too big.