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A Brief Legal History Of Wisconsin Conservation, Jason J. Czarnezki, Carolyn Drell
A Brief Legal History Of Wisconsin Conservation, Jason J. Czarnezki, Carolyn Drell
Marquette Law Review
The State of Wisconsin’s longstanding conservation ethic includes the passage of the Conservation Education Statute, which required conservation of natural resources be taught in public schools, and the creation of “Earth Day.” However, a lack of recent interest and scholarship in Wisconsin’s important conversation history and development of conservation law has driven us to write this Article which offers a brief legal history of Wisconsin conservation— how the state’s conservation values were expressed in law, how its natural resources law has evolved and what that has (and has not) embodied, and how Wisconsin helps us define modern concepts of “conservation.” …