NR115: A hoax perpetrated by political extremists

From Minocqua's The Lakeland Times

...Right now, the revision of the state’s shoreland administrative rule is in its eighth incarnation. Apparently the last two or three versions never even made it to the advisory committee the DNR had put together to help write it.

...No need to bother those who might criticize the elite bureaucracy’s work. After all, the DNR is always right.

...It’s all a hoax, of course, from the agency’s disingenuous proclamations about the work being the consensus product of that advisory committee to the so-called scientific explanations backing up what the agency wants to do.

...The other thing the DNR hopes the public will miss is the fictitiousness of its science.

...That was proven in the Tom Baer case, in which the agency pursued Mr. Baer for a variety of alleged violations. They are pursuing him still, at taxpayers’ expense, though so far they have lost on every count. There’s no need to recount all the details here; what’s important is that Mr. Baer and his attorneys destroyed the credibility of the DNR’s scientific claims in court – the fundamental basis for his victories – and established the DNR’s real motivations in the process.