DNR is perpetrating a fraud upon the public trust

From the Lakeland Times

...So here's the quick recap: The Dead Pike Lake Association members want the marsh restored to its natural state through the removal of the extensive ditch-and-dike system constructed there - because, they say, it pollutes their lake with iron floc - the DNR says all management options, including that alternative, are on the table and public opinion will be solicited, while all the while they have a contract with Ducks Unlimited to keep the ditch-and-dike system in place for the next 20 years, and might have to repay that group thousands of dollars if they default and do not do so.

...The difference is, in those other plans, management authority is almost always conveyed to the DNR, whereas in this agreement the DNR is the cooperator and Ducks Unlimited is calling all the shots.

That's the critical point: A private group has been given absolute authority over public property.

....The DNR does not intend to change its current management of the marsh, no matter what the public or scientists say, and they have powerful financial and patronage motives not to do so