Article: TREE CLEARING ON HILL CUTS DEEP WOOD COUNTY'S BURIAL BATTLEGROUND REMOVING TREES NEAR INDIAN GRAVES -- FOR SLEDDING PURPOSES -- STIRS OLD FEELINGS OF BETRAYAL.(FRONT)

News that Wood County had secretly cut 40 trees at Powers Bluff County Park last week brought about 30 angry people to a courthouse meeting Wednesday to complain that the county had broken promises to Indians and others interested in the hill.

The issue stirred old feelings of betrayal.

"You went ahead but you left the Ho-Chunk behind," Myrna Thompson, who represents the area in the Ho-hunk Legislature, told the Wood County Forestry Committee. "You people remind me of the federal government that has never taken our side about our spiritual issues or our love for the land. You guys are raping the land just like your ancestors."

But county ...

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