Suick tried to move ahead with the project. He was told that the permits had expired. Now the Dane County Planning and Development Department may want a say. Legislative bickering Thus far, the Legislature has not even found a way to expedite a wetland bill. The Republican-controlled Assembly on March 27 began holding informal meetings on its own preliminary draft of a bill.
People are impatient.
No moratorium is now in force. Not necessarily, countered Charlie Luthin, executive director of the Wisconsin Wetland Association, who said even half-acre calcareous fens offered habitats for rare species. Many seemingly disconnected wetlands perform important functions that are essentially invisible and therefore, misunderstood, said Kenneth Potter, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering. That could be important to our water supply. As long as they are isolated, they confine water that otherwise would add to downstream floods.