LA CROSSE TALK PM: How Wisconsin lawmakers are breaking the law with MVC’s Abrahamzon

Mississippi Valley Conservancy (MVC) Executive Director Carol Abrahamzon in the WIZM studio Thursday for La Crosse Talk PM to help navigate how Wisconsin lawmakers are breaking the law, when it comes to certain land projects. We also discuss, of course, what the MVC is all about.

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After a bit of that intro, we dived down the rabbit hole of how Wisconsin’s Joint Finance Committee (JFC) is — with no transparency — killing land conservancy projects that are applying for grant money, breaking its own rules in how it should interact with the public.

This misconduct has forced MVC to not apply for certain Knowles-Nelson Stewardship grants.

A lot of this was exposed earlier this week with the Pelican River Project in northern Wisconsin, that was not-so-recently denied by the JFC, but only began to give reasoning as to why after groups began to speak out about the lack of transparency.

The Pelican project would have protected 56,000 acres from development, and allowed it to be utilized for outdoor recreation — anything from hiking to hunting to snowmobiling.