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Critters2

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8. Yes. There's a group of citizens who've organized and are doing our best to fight this.

Reply to coffeenap (Reply #7)

Wed Mar 7, 2012, 01:37 PM

Mar 2012

The Sierra Club, the Audubon Society and others are involved, too. I'm not real hopeful, but the fight isn't over yet. The next hope is that the DNR will deny them a permit.

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Still fighting? coffeenap Mar 2012 #7

Yes. There's a group of citizens who've organized and are doing our best to fight this. Critters2 Mar 2012 #8