It is a privilege to be your representative on this important day. Today we honor leaders in the conservation movement. Those who will be inducted today and those who have already been chosen. These people are truly important. They have been chosen because they dedicated their lives to the cause of maintaining the integrity of Wisconsin's beautiful environment.
Every cause needs heroes and heroines.
These are the inductees. You and the members of your organizations, and your predecessors, are the foot soldiers that swept these generals to victory. Wisconsin has been an incubator for environmental leadership. Surely they did not share ethnicity or religion. Their educations were not similar.