The Kohler Company has proposed building a golf course in a pristine forest and sensitive environmental corridor in Sheboygan County.  That project will result in the destruction of a rare coastal ecosystem and invade the northern portion of Kohler Andrae State Park, where Kohler intends to construct a maintenance building and road.

 
Friends of the Black River Forest has engaged in the permitting process for nearly 7 years.  We won a victory when a state Administrative Law Judge’s revoked the Wetland Fill Permit issued to the Kohler Company by the Wisconsin DNR. The judge cited incomplete information on the impacts to groundwater and wetlands. 

We won again when an appellate court confirmed that FBRF has a right to challenge the DNR’s swap of land in our Kohler Andrae State Park for insignificant Kohler Co. property.

Now the Kohler Company, joined by the DNR and Wisconsin Department of Justice, are asking the State Supreme Court to deny Wisconsin residents the right to challenge the land swap decision. That’s unbelievable—citizens must be able to protect the parks they use and love, and that our tax dollars have paid for.

We need to continue to tell the Wisconsin DNR to PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT AND PRESERVE WISCONSIN'S PUBLIC LANDS.