On Sunday, June 27th, when I opened my Faribault Daily News, I was delighted to see an article about Bill and Arlene Bryson's fight to keep their wetlands from being destroyed. (Bill and Arlene live in Freeborn County east of Alden.) A Freeborn County offical came to announce to the Bryson's that they were to receive a new road through the middle of their wetland. In the 1970's they went through many court hearings to protect their wetland, including one hearing at the MN Supreme Court. The progress of this case was presented several years at the MOU winter paper session by Bill giving an update.
Forty years later their wetland is still roadless, and it helped to establish state policy on the preservation of MN wetlands. The estimated 100 million acres of wetlands in MN currently remain. Rev. Forest V. Strnad Faribault, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
