Sauk County Board Approves Badger Reuse

Last night, May 15, the Sauk County Board approved the Final Report of the Badger Reuse Committee by an overwhelming majority of 21 – 7! The report is the result of a nine-month long process that took literally took thousands of hours to develop. The land uses...

Mercury Landfill Approved Despite Overwhelming Opposition

Local Fundraising for Independent Scientific Review Begins PRESS RELEASE For immediate release MERRIMAC — Despite more than 300 letters and postcards and standing-room-only attendance at the WDNR’s January 23 public meeting, the burial of mercury-laced sediments...

Fifth Freedom of Information Appeal Denied

Original Environmental Findings Still Sequestered From Public MERRIMAC — In August 1998, an independent environmental investigation of Badger Army Ammunition Plant was completed by Plexus Scientific Corporation of Silver Spring, Maryland. Seven months later,...
The Bison will Return to Sauk Prairie

The Bison will Return to Sauk Prairie

by Members of the Ho-Chunk Nation The aboriginal territory of the Ho-Chunk people, formerly known as the Wisconsin Winnebago Tribe, once covered several million acres and extended throughout southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Long before the arrival of European...