Sustained involvement by committed citizens has been a key element in getting us to where we are today in the Badger reuse process. All the major parties to the negotiations over Badger’s future have made statements to the effect that citizens are what have held the consensus together.

Your voice matters!

 There are a couple things you can do to express your support for a conservation-oriented future for Badger.

1. Contact Governor Doyle to express your support for the Badger Reuse Plan. Encourage the Governor to move forward and work with the USDA and the Ho-Chunk Nation in implementing provisions of the Plan and establishing the Oversight and Management Commission, so that restoration, education, agriculture, conservation, and recreation uses can work together!

Gov. Jim Doyle
115 East State Capitol
Madison, WI 53702
(608) 266-1212
Fax: 608-267-8983
wisgov@mail.state.wi.us 

2. Contact the Ho-Chunk Nation and the USDA Dairy Forage Research Center and send them a positive message thanking them for their efforts to implement the Badger Reuse Plan. Encourage them to move forward in implementing provisions of the Reuse Plan and establishing the Oversight and Management Commission, so that restoration, education, agriculture, conservation, and recreation uses can work together!

When writing your letter or speaking your mind, feel free to draw on the Badger Reuse Plan, available at http://www.co.sauk.wi.us/data/badger/index.html

President George Lewis, The Ho-Chunk Nation
PO Box 667
Black River Falls, WI 54615
(715) 284-9343
Or (800) 294-9343 / x1255

Neil Martin, USDA Dairy Forage Research Center
1925 Linden Drive West
Madison, WI 53706-1108
(608) 264-5240
Fax: (608) 264-5147
npmartin@facstaff.wisc.edu

3. Become a member of the Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance and help us continue our advocacy work. Click here to join.

 

For more information, contact:
The Sauk Prairie
Conservation Alliance
P.O. Box 403
Baraboo, WI 53913
info@saukprairievision.org


The Alliance talks with
Rick Walgenbach of the
Dairy Forage Research Center

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"It’s the community
that is the
glue of this project."

Mike Degen,
DNR liaison
for the Badger
reuse process