State Tourism Website Touts Watershed Iron Mine Would Excavate

[Updated, 12:01 a.m., Monday.] I don't think you could find a greater contradiction in Wisconsin government behavior right now than the Department of Tourism's promotion of Copper Falls State Park's beautiful trails and waterfalls and the years of pressure and deregulatory work by Gov. Walker and Republican legislators to get the nation's biggest open-pit iron mine dug in the very Bad River watershed that makes the Park and region an attraction.

Here's a suggestion:

People should take the Tourism Department's official pitch to heart.

Ride the trails and see the Bad River and take it all in.

Then record your impressions and images of this pristine area and send them all to the Department, to the Governor, to the DNR, to your legislators, to the US Army Corps of Engineers and your local media, and say:

"Stop the madness. Don't destroy the Penokee range and the Bad River Watershed."

I've posted much of this at the Journal Sentinel's Purple Wisconsin site.

And by the way, the Tourism Department and other state agencies' websites are blatantly promoting Scott Walker in an election year, as I noted in a related post:

This State Tourism Department video that Walker is tweeting is nothing less than a Walker For Re-Election commercial.
http://vimeo.com/93692991 
On top of the Department's featuring the Governor's wife.
In addition to Walker's images being all over other state agencies websites and feature pages?

Governor Walker ‏@GovWalker  23h Did you hear? Wisconsin FUN fuels the economy! Watch this:

This is wrong.