AND A good friend becomes a bit complex when he begins to talk about annual spring interrogations in the field of protection of Wisconsin. When he rolls, the bubbles begin to blow.
Until then, he will fuck his irritation: Congress of Protection. CC is a civic group that sponsors together April hearings in the field of fish and games From the DNR.
Congress has 360 selected delegates; Five unpaid volunteers each of our 72 poviats. Our legislator formally found CC in 1971 as an advisory body for natural resources, a seven -person group that establishes DNR policy.
My friend thinks that CC is the worst idea of Aldo Leopold he has ever reborn or supported. And man, he was a Leopold thinker. North America recognizes him as a father of wildlife protection. He also wrote Almanac of the Sand Functionwhich sold over 2 million copies and was printed in at least 14 languages. He created the Department of Nature Conservation at UW-Madison after he became the first professor of game management in 1933.
It is not clear whether Leopold was the main architect of CC. The State Protection Commission – Forerunner NRB – created Congress in 1934, but Leopold did not sit on the committee until 1943. His term ended in April 1948, when he died, fighting a neighbor’s fire at the age of 61.
However, it can be said that Leopold has helped to create a hearing of CC and April. Leopold believed in democracy and engaging hunters, farmers and other citizens in making decisions about protection protection. They helped Leopold to create CC Harley Mackenzie, the main Warden and William Grimmer, a state curator of the game.
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Many Wisconsin hunters from this era reacted, cursing this trio, whenever they are forced to shoot, and fly to balance herds of deer with their habitat. But until his death, Leopold persuaded his learned colleagues to be patient, trusting reason and science to gain public trust and cooperation of the congress.
Well, over 75 years later Leopold’s trust is still waiting for his award. My buddy predicts that Leopold will still be waiting in 2100. Maybe, but like the Dutch-American author Adriaan Schade van Westrum wrote in 1908: “There are … centuries in which nothing happens; and there are days … in which all life is compressed.”
How did people say to Leopold today if he could appear on April 14 on one of 72 personal people? You can assume that Leopold will be able to endure any insult, regardless of whether he was thrown during interrogation in McFarland High School in the county, audition of Columbia in Wayne E. Bartels Middle School in Portage, or interrogation of Sauk’s Sauk unit at Jack Young Middle School in Baraboo.
Leopold will also appear on May 9-10 in Oshkosh, when the Congress organizes the annual convention. Many DNR and NRB results take part in these conventions and deal with 360 citizens’ delegates.
Similarly, legislators and governors. Governor Tommy Thompson spoke at meetings during his date 1987-2001, like Governor Jim Doyle, 2003–2011; and Governor Scott Walker, 2011-19. Sometimes they asked questions before working in the crowd and posing for photos.
The time has come for the Governor of Tony Evers to do the same. Evers has not turned to the convention since the office was taken in January 2019. If nothing more, the occasional presence of the governor honors Wisconsin’s almost eternal involvement in protection. And if Evers wants to embrace the crowd, he could share the memorable stories about past conventions.
For example, Denny Wandtke Waupaca reminded me of Gordon Macquarrie reports, Milwaukee Journal’s The legendary editor in the fresh air, when seven decades ago included CC conventions. In the history of “Old Brown Mackinaw” Macquarrie gave the convention “chaotic honesty” in the ballroom of Loraine Hotel Madison, writing: “Over 300 devoted, expressive ecologists sat in this room. They had fishing and the code of this sovereign state throughout the year. Not silence.
“At the front table on the platform, as the chairman of the Congress, Dr. Hugo Schnider from Wausau sat, with a hammer in one hand and – Help me – a muzzle of a squirrel rifle in the other. Every time Roberts, the principles of order seemed to leave the window, Doc abandoned a runny nut and reached into the rifle.
“In this wonderful Pandemonium, in this convention of passionate hunters and fishermen, as well as screams of wounded and dying delegates, Wisconsin is evolving his game and fish rights. And if you can come up with a more democratic way, suggest. We can try.”
It is true that most of the conventions do not have such an atmosphere. In fact, CC meetings dominated by the deceased chairman Francis “Bill” Murphy from Portage in the 1990s. But the endurance of freedom of speech won. Message of Murphy’s multiple insults for anyone who challenged his conductivity, eventually storped his nomination to the NRB in November 1999.
Congress has had more stable leadership in the last 25 years. Now, like other organizations in the whole country, many CC delegates are getting venerable, and the group is trying to find youthful people to replace them.
His current chairman, Rob Bohmann from Racine, is in second place, previously he was the chairman in 2011–2016. Bohmann did not plan to return after retiring nine years ago, but he felt that in May 2022 he had no choice. Bohmann swears that he will not return from the next “retirement”.
Did the Congress of Protection experience its goal? NO. Wisconsin remains best served when hunting, fishing and traps evolving through the hearing of CC, meetings of committees and conventions.
If you doubt that, remember the inefficiency and stagnation, which we have been bare since the legislator and Governor Walker bypassed Congress ten years ago, insulting the mascara for deer, turkeys and geese, prohibiting the earnings for deer management, establishing the tenth pistol season for cement, and prohibiting any missile.
In addition, if you think that Congress has no value, take part in any gathering or behavior of the Senate you want in Madison Capitol.
And when back home, write your children a nice, long letter explaining how most of our full -time legislators serve us better.
Contact Patrick Durkin at [email protected].
