We approve only for building sites. No one should be able to take the use of land away from taxpayers. Make it fair for everyone. The board believes the land owners have lost too much control of their property and do not need any more restrictions. Wisconsin has a diversity of wetland types, including marshes, bogs, floodplain forests, wet meadows and low prairies.
Biologists say that wetlands provide food and shelter for many animal species.
Many of the rare and endangered plant species in Wisconsin are found in wetlands. By providing beautiful open spaces, wetlands enhance quality of life, private property values and tourism. I live on a farm where alders grow on a steep hill, which the farm association calls a wetland. Wetlands should be wetlands year-around, where you couldn't do something on it. In the long run, there will be a rebellion of some sort, and maybe this is the start of it.