Forgive Cathy Stepp If She Feels Blue, Sees Red
When Scott Walker appointed home-builder and former State GOP Sen. Cathy Stepp to run the Department of Natural Resources, he was installing one of the agency's most rancorous critics at its helm.
Her appointment despite - - or perhaps because of the the anti-DNR venom she'd posted on a right-wing blog:
...people who go to work for the DNR's land, waste, and water bureaus tend to be anti-development, anti-transportation, and pro-garter snakes, karner blue butterflies, etc...This is in their nature; their make-up and DNA. So, since they're unelected bureaucrats who have only their cubicle walls to bounce ideas off of, they tend to come up with some pretty outrageous stuff that those of us in the real world have to contend with.Oh, the "outrageous stuff" those wacky DNR people do!.
More about that in a few paragraph after we return to her hated Karner Blue butterfly - - which, by the way is being celebrated at a festival this weekend in Black River Falls. Talk about outrageous!
But if irony is a dish best served warm, a big carryout order is being delivered piping hot to Stepp's office because the big, bad federal government us sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to Stepp's agency to acquire habitat protection for certain species - - including - - oh, no! - - the Karner Blue butterfly, says the final item in this Journal Sentinel posting:
"The state Department of Natural Resources has been granted $759,000 by the federal government to acquire up to 1,500 acres in Adams County in central Wisconsin to help in the restoration of the endangered Kirtland's warbler, as well as the Karner blue butterfly and associated barrens species.
"The money gives the state the opportunity to purchase lands outright or to acquire conservation easements to ensure protection of the targeted species' habitat. The acquisition is part of a bigger project to protect more than 9,100 contiguous acres in the central part of the state."
11 comments:
What does she have against garter snakes?
They're pretty and harmless and easy to catch for pets, or to scare the bejabbers out of your mom (which is admittedly what we did)
Wait, I think I see.
And just where did the federal government find the money?
At some point in the very near future, young Americans are going to wake up and realize that this President and his followers destroyed their American dream.
Yes, out of a budget that spends billions on equipment the military doesn't want (see F-35, $120 million per unwanted pane), these pennies definitely break the bank.
Just another short sighted lackey of Mr. Walker. There is no way Ms. Stepp should be in that position since she feels so negative about DNR and its employees. It also shows she is in a position she knows nothing about.
James, Those pennies you speak of may not break the bank, but they don't help the bank either. Besides the birds you're so worried about will probably be killed by windfarm electric power generation. So, they will be saved by government funding an then killed by government funding, which is the defintion of irony.
I'd like to see comparable over much,much, much larger spending, as I said, on billions in weapons the military didn't want. Have you see the stories about a massive, multi-million dollar HQ operation built and abandoned in Afghanistan?
Corporate farm subsidies?
Bridges to nowhere, or in the case of the Sawyer Rd. interchange, to the mall-not-built at Pabst Farms?
How can America be the Greatest Country In The World and simultaneously too broke to save a little environment?
Why do you hate America, Ron?
200 million dollars for EACH of these ludicrous boondoggle F-35. 1.5 TRILLION dollars in total, and the things fly like shit.
But saving a little nice landscape for what amounts to the cost of a TIRE for these ridiculous wastes of money is too much for America?
"Yes, out of a budget that spends billions on equipment the military doesn't want (see F-35, $120 million per unwanted pane), these pennies definitely break the bank."
James, you do realize that this is the same justification Waukesha makes in it's case for the pursuit of a Lake Michigan water diversion exception. It only wants one drop in comparison to the vast quantity.
"Besides the birds you're so worried about will probably be killed by windfarm electric power generation."
A single stray cat kills more birds than a whole windfarm.
James, you do realize that this is the same justification Waukesha makes in it's case for the pursuit of a Lake Michigan water diversion exception. It only wants one drop in comparison to the vast quantity.
Hah. No. You fail the simile portion of the class.
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