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PLANNING, RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES

Wisconsin’s county conservation committees were created to achieve common resource protection goals by functioning as autonomous units of government having the local flexibility to address a variety of resource needs across Wisconsin’s diverse natural environment. 

Their creation was to preclude top-down administered soil and water programs, each having specific agendas, that when applied uniformly to a diverse environment, do not fit site specific conditions. 

Committee responsibility is clear; to evaluate, prioritize and administer to local resource needs and to engage state or federal programs that do not restrict local flexibility through administrative or procedural details, forcing reactive, not proactive, local strategies. 

Due to their intimate knowledge of local conditions, county committees are best positioned to provide the leadership necessary to address Wisconsin’s diverse natural environment.