Headline: Wisconsin Examiner, 3/7/2024
A right-wing anti-conservation group has been working to influence officials in Forest, Langlade and Oneida counties, at the urging of U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, in an effort to prevent conservation efforts and promote extractive industry.
The Texas-based group, American Stewards of Liberty, has a track record of successfully blocking conservation efforts across the country. In Nebraska, for example, the group helped change state law to give individual counties the ability to halt private conservation easements.
At the center of ASL’s ideology is the idea of “coordination,” a discredited legal theory which holds that any conservation efforts that use federal or state dollars require the approval and “coordination” of local governments. Similar to constitutional sheriffs who believe they’re the ultimate arbiter of which laws to enforce within their jurisdictions, ASL promotes the idea to county officials aiming to prevent conservation projects.
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