[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Court upholds non-park uses of former Badger Plant (WI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Land Conservation Group Loses Appeal on Motorcycles, Hound Training, and Helicopters

By JOE FORWARD
WisBar News (WI)
December 19, 2019 

An environmental group recently lost a federal appeal to prohibit hunters from training dogs (using guns) on land the National Park Service donated for recreational uses, as well as off-road motorcycles, and military helicopter drill activities.

In Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance v. U.S. Department of the Interior et al., No. 18-2213 (Dec. 12, 2019), a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that such activities are not barred by two federal statutes at issue.

The National Park Service donated more than 3,000 acres of land to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Previously the site of a Cold War munitions plant, the DNR transformed the land into a state park for recreational uses.

The DNR created the Sauk Prairie Recreation Area (Sauk Prairie Park), north of Sauk City. The Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance (Alliance) filed a lawsuit to bar the Wisconsin National Guard from using the recreation area to conduct helicopter drills, as well as other activities – dog training for hunting and off-road motorcycle riding on trails.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wisbar.org/NewsPublications/Pages/General-Article.aspx?ArticleID=27395

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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