Nature Conservancy: Applauds council on forestry vote to retain the forestry mill tax
Contact: Cate Harrington, charrington@tnc.org or 608-316- 6416 MADISON, WI (May 30, 2017)— Foresters, timber producers, elected officials, nonprofits and other members of the Wisconsin Council on Forestry recently voted to ask the Governor to retain the stable funding that the Forestry Mill Tax provides to Wisconsin’s forests. The current budget proposal to eliminate this dedicated funding source and replace it with General Purpose Revenue (GPR) will put one of the most successful forestry programs in the United States at risk. For this reason, The Nature Conservancy is asking members of the Joint Committee on Finance to vote for Alternative 8