Mother Nature Being Overruled by DNR

Channel3000 - TV-3 Madison

...This is where a lot of the damage occurred. What happened is that there was such a wash out of water and material that it kind of plugged up the stream bed up in this area and then it kind of rerouted itself," said Steve Schmelzer, assistant park manager for Devil's Lake State Park.

Scmelzer said raging waters picked up everything in sight.

"Some of those rocks that were moved are probably 500 to 1,000 pounds," he said.

..."We're concerned that people can't come to their favorite spot to see things and go for a hike too so that's why we're trying to get it opened as soon as possible," said Schmelzer.

The goal, said Schmelzer, is to creat a sustainable area so that the same destruction doesn’t happen again.
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OK, as I understand this, the DNR removes Dams because they are "unnatural" and man-made, yet they rebuild man-made hiking trails.

And the DNR says their operating order that draw-downs the lake each fall and keeps summer lake levels low is their effort to "mimic Mother Nature."

All I am saying is, which is it? Mimic Mother Nature, improve on Mother Nature, or let Mother Nature take its course?