Michiganders! Speak up against SB 78!

Please write your Senators! This bill makes a mockery of the DNR, turning state land into little more than a commercial tree farm.

The bill would amend several parts of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act to do the following:
-- Prohibit the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Natural Resources Commission from promulgating or enforcing a rule or an order that designates or classifies an area of land specifically for the purpose of achieving or maintaining biological diversity.
-- Delete the conservation of biological diversity from the DNR's duties regarding forest management, and require the Department to balance its management activities with economic values.
-- Eliminate a requirement that the DNR manage forests in a manner that promotes restoration.
-- Provide that a State department or agency would not have to designate or classify an area of land specifically for the purpose of achieving or maintaining biological diversity.
-- Revise the definition of "conservation" with regard to biological diversity.
-- Delete a legislative finding that most losses of biological diversity are the result of human activity.

thanks for sharing ... i don't live in Michigan but i will share with my friends who do

Yeah that's not good. I guess I'm kind of glad I didn't get a job in the DNR.

Thats pretty harsh! Who the heck thinks up these things?

Obviously people in leadership positions and people in power......

I'm calling Jck Brandenburg, Ken Goike, Andrea Lafontaine, and Bulger today. I'm a conservative Republican, but it seems to me that the whole point of the DNR is to preserve something, and let private industry and individuals decide what to do with the rest.Governor Snyder won't win again in 2014 with an approval rating of 38%, so he's getting everything he can shoved through now.