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Article: DNR wants plans altered to protect garter snakes

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March 24, 2002
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NEW BERLIN (AP) - Garter snakes are choking the city's plans to build a $40 million civic center.

The city and the state Department of Natural Resources have been sparring over how to proceed since last summer, when DNR officials discovered Butler's garter snakes in an area where a road would be built to the center. The state classifies the species as threatened.

The DNR wants the city to alter the road plan to save the snake habitat, but New Berlin officials say the road extension is critical ...

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