Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
RETIRED WISCONSIN Department of Natural Resources employee Bob Martini warns recent changes to state law impacts the amount local governments can regulate shoreline properties during an event at the Pines Beer Garden in Mercer.
MERCER, Wis - State Sen. Janet Bewley and retired Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employee Bob Martini addressed recent changes to Wisconsin's shoreland zoning regulations at an event hosted by the Iron County Lakes and Rivers Alliance at the Pines Beer Garden in Mercer on Thursday.
Bewley and Martini warned changes by the state legislature in recent years have removed local municipalities from controlling how bodies of water within their boundaries are used, something they both said could have dire consequences in the future.
Bewley began by giving a brief overview of how power b...
