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Article: ENVIRONMENT; Leave it to experts; The Department of Natural Resources secretary should be appointed by the citizen-member Natural Resources Board.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 5, 2008
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The state Senate has acted. A key Assembly committee has, too.
Now it's up to the full Assembly to approve a measure in the next
few weeks that will return the power to appoint the secretary of the
Department of Natural Resources to the citizen-member Natural
Resources Board.
That's the way it was before 1995, and that's the way it should
be again in order to provide the secretary with some insulation from
the partisan politics that can affect decisions better left to
science and good public policy.
Since 1995, the power to appoint the secretary has been in the
hands of the governor. Environmental groups have argued against that
since the change was made; this time around, hunting and ...