CNOW for Sept. 8, 2025

Today's conservation notices:

• Support LRB 3744 & 4495: Continuing the Knowles Nelson Stewardship Program
• Support LRB 0709 & 4516: Reestablishing prevailing wage
• Support LRB 0718 & ­­­4607: Repealing Wisconsin's "right-to-work" law

Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to support LRB 3744 and 4495, which are circulating for co-sponsorship. 

Wisconsin has one of the premier land acquisition programs in the country that give all people a place to swim, boat, fish, hunt, and relax in our beautiful state. This program is overwhelmingly popular and a critical component of our state's economy. LRB 3744 and 4495 would support land acquisition and management to maintain the goals of the Knowles Nelson Stewardship program by reauthorizing the program for another six years and allocating $72 million in bonding authority.

Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to support LRB 0709 and 4516, which are circulating for co-sponsorship. 

The skilled workers who are building our communities deserve to be paid a fair hourly minimum wage and fringe benefits. Taxpayers also benefit when we have workers from our communities rather than out-of-state contractors, which has increased by 60 percent since Wisconsin repealed our prevailing wage requirements. LRB 0709 and 4516 would require employers on public construction projects to pay their workers the prevailing wage of the county.

Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to support LRB 0718 and 4607, which are circulating for co-sponsorship. 

Every worker in Wisconsin deserves access to fair wages, good benefits, workplace protections, and a high quality of life. Union representation is what has made this a reality for many over the years. LRB 0718 and 4607 would establish the requirement that every union-represented worker pays their dues to ensure that those that benefit from the services a union provides also help fund them. This is a core democratic principle that needs to be restored.

Conservation Notices of the Week (CNOW) announces the pro-conservation positions on issues before the Senate, Assembly and/or Governor in the week ahead to state legislators. Others wishing to follow activities in the state legislature also receive CNOW, including legislative staff, conservation voters, and media. All of these issues are tracked on the Vote Tracker. Issues in the CNOW may appear in the Conservation Scorecard, to be released in the summer of 2026.