A bureaucracy never changes; it only lies in wait

JFC vote on Pelican River Forest easement is a big win for northern Wisconsin, but don’t expect the DNR to give up, or to reform itself.

The Wisconsin DNR; Where decisions about the future of northern Wisconsin are really made, by unelected bureaucrats

This is classic DNR behavior—the legislature specifically declared that decks on boathouse roofs were OK and that the DNR could not prohibit them. So the DNR did the next best thing: They denied people stairways to get to them.

When the Legi…