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General Category => Wisconsin DNR Outdoor Reports and News => Topic started by: mudbrook on April 13, 2010, 01:32:26 PM
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Spring hearings remain a relevant force
Once a Wisconsinite spends a Monday night in April at an annual fish and wildlife hearing, we never again take a routine, pleasant evening for granted.
I say that with newfound appreciation for these often-tortuous events, a joint production of the Department of Natural Resources and Wisconsin Conservation Congress. For as agonizing as the statewide hearings can be, our Legislature proved the past three months that its gong show is worse.
Lawmakers merely prolonged our suffering by pushing half-baked ideas on bear hunting, spring turkey hunting and transporting uncased firearms during deer season. This showed they lacked the wisdom of the late English writer G.K. Chesterton. To paraphrase: Don't tear down a fence until you understand why it was built.
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http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20100411/GPG0204/4110654/1233/Patrick-Durkin-column--Spring-hearings-remain-a-relevant-force