Support LRB 1140: Reducing Incentives for Deer Poaching; Support LRB 0150: Helping Local Communities Develop Bike Paths and Trails

Week of January 28, 2019
2019-20 Legislative Session

This week's notices:

• Support LRB 1140: Reducing Incentives for Deer Poaching
  
• Support LRB 0150: Helping Local Communities Develop Bike Paths and Trails

Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to support LRB 1140, which is currently circulating for co-sponsorship.

Wildlife is managed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to ensure the survival of species while maintaining a healthy balance in our natural ecosystems. Penalties for poaching should discourage illegal deer hunting. LRB 1140 increases the wild animal protection surcharge a court may impose on a person who unlawfully kills a deer.

Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to support LRB 0150, which is currently circulating for co-sponsorship.

Bike lanes, walking paths, and trails are integral parts of any community’s transportation plan. These transportation options not only increase the health of community members, they also increase overall quality of life. Language was inserted into the last budget to remove state and local eminent domain rights for bike and pedestrian projects. This hampers municipalities’ ability to build complete bike and pedestrian networks. LRB 0150 will restore the ability of state and local governments to use eminent domain to acquire land or interests in land for the purpose of building or extending state recreational trails, bike lanes, or sidewalks.

Conservation Notices of the Week (CNOW) announce 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 2020.