Mark Green's Proposal to Split the DNR
I support Mark Green's proposal to split the DNR into two agencies.
It's a concept that's been discussed before. I spent several months studying the issue and helped craft a similar plan years ago.
While I will blog more on the concept later, one quick note:
Sportsmen and women can be assured that their license fees will be used to protect and rehabilitate wildlife and habitat, and not to fund the agenda of lifetime environmental bureaucrats. It's something we've wanted for a long time.
In fact, the Legislative Audit Bureau's report on the fish and wildlife fund should be complete soon.
This is a bold proposal by Green and I am sure he is prepared for the coming organized opposition by those who favor the status quo.
6 Comments:
I think we better wait to see if Governor Thompson gets in the race for Governor before we do anything crazy like consider Mark Green's plans to overhaul the DNR.
Run Tommy, Run!
I know he's not the small government Republican that we need, but he'd shake up the place and it would certainly be fun to watch.
Can't be any worse than the crap that's been coming out of the Capitol for the last few years.
This is a great idea, we pushed this in 1979 at Lee Dreyfus's DNR reorganization task force. Big agencies are far less efficient than small agencies. The two do not belong together.
I think Mark Green should propose a Dept. of Property Rights instead of the ridiculous Dept. of Environmental Quality.
After all, it is the government's main responsibility to protect your private property. The government is doing everything except protecting private property.
I hate to say it, but it sounds like MORE GOVERNMENT TO ME. Intead of finding unique and curious ways to split agencies and make government bigger, why don't we just find a way to streamline what the DNR does. We can do this by telling them that they will need to get their agency budget by 5% each year for the next 5 years.
yes, we live in a stalinist dictatorship in which soldiers routinely confiscate our homes and children.
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