How the Department of Natural Resources stole Birch Lake

Lakeland Times

...Everyone is terrified of the DNR.

...More than a few documents The Lakeland Times obtained through an open records request indicate town officials believed that the DNR's insistence that the project could not affect lake levels referred to current lake levels, when, as a matter of fact, the DNR was actually referring to natural lake levels as they existed before the original culvert placement created an impounding effect.

...Instead, the DNR needs to be dismantled administrative rule by administrative rule, shorn of its staff zealot by zealot, and reinvented from scratch.