Interesting, and will this wildlife refuge encompass the Lake Michigan shoreline? Will any fishing industry be curtailed in this area if Lake Michigan is involved? There's just too little information in this article. How will it affect the local tax base in the municipalities involved? Are there any prime farmlands included in the land grab? Will the State of Wisconsin lose any manufacturing facilities or business income and jobs? How will this affect Wisconsin's economy? Will this affect any major roads? Why are we hearing about this from Chicago? Will Illinois be spearheading the development? Where is Walker on this? Too many questions.

This is being created under the same executive authority used by Presidents since Teddy Roosevelt and by which George W. Bush created the largest refuge of all, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Hawaii. As a wildlife refuge, this is not a park and most of it will not be federal land. The goal is to use existing state and county lands combined with voluntary protection of private lands so that wildlife will have connected corridors across the region. The cost to taxpayers is going to be largely putting up some signs and distributing maps. But then, I hear that signs and maps are a UN plot.

conservatives would probably wonder whose money is paying for this.. ok, well, we know that answer... and did those people approve? or was it some mysterious board of directors again.. unknown, unelected, and unaccountable who decided this would be a great idea? Y'all might want to learn about agenda 21.

wildlife sounds great. once you put the public in the scenario it degrades everything.

Very cool! Don't forget, conservatives, one of the key components of conservativism is conservation.