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The State Budget is a Big Win for Conservation

By Steve Bablitch, Chair, Wisconsin Board of Trustees

For more than 17 years, the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund has been a highly successful public-private partnership, securing critical wildlife habitat, conserving the best of outdoor Wisconsin and providing consistent world class outdoor recreation opportunities.  I am grateful that we can celebrate this program yet again with its reauthorization in the newly signed state budget.

As the Stewardship Fund’s title would imply, being named after two governors from different political parties, it took a bipartisan effort to reauthorize this vital conservation program for another 10 years. Governor Doyle led the way again by proposing the fund’s reauthorization in his budget back in January.  After long negotiations over the past several months, the State Senate and Assembly agreed as well.  In the budget signed on October 26, the Stewardship Fund was authorized to continue from 2010-2020 at a level of $86 million per year.

Read the rest of Steve Bablitch's letter

For additional information:

Casey Eggleston
The Nature Conservancy
633 West Main Street
Madison, WI 53703
(608) 251-8140
ceggleston@tnc.org

Photo credit: Caroline Lake Preserve, Iron County © Robert A. Kleppin