Post by Logan on Feb 22, 2016 2:25:30 GMT -6
DNR's plan to sell surplus lands avoids controversial parcels
The Department of Natural Resources has outlined plans to sell 5,900 acres of state land, but the deals avoid potentially controversial properties involving spring ponds coveted by trout anglers and lake frontage sought by a wealthy political donor of Gov. Scott Walker.
The targeted land goes before the Natural Resources Board on Wednesday in Madison. The sales would help address a directive from the Legislature requiring the agency to put up for sale 10,000 acres by mid-2017.
Lawmakers ordered the sales in 2013 because of worries over the rising costs of the state's land purchase program.
Details posted by the agency show that land would go to both government and private interests and call for selling:
Read more: www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/dnrs-plan-to-sell-surplus-lands-avoids-controversial-parcels-b99672875z1-369599551.html
The Department of Natural Resources has outlined plans to sell 5,900 acres of state land, but the deals avoid potentially controversial properties involving spring ponds coveted by trout anglers and lake frontage sought by a wealthy political donor of Gov. Scott Walker.
The targeted land goes before the Natural Resources Board on Wednesday in Madison. The sales would help address a directive from the Legislature requiring the agency to put up for sale 10,000 acres by mid-2017.
Lawmakers ordered the sales in 2013 because of worries over the rising costs of the state's land purchase program.
Details posted by the agency show that land would go to both government and private interests and call for selling:
Read more: www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/dnrs-plan-to-sell-surplus-lands-avoids-controversial-parcels-b99672875z1-369599551.html