JFC Republicans reject providing $4M in stewardship funds for largest conservation deal in state history

The Joint Finance Committee today voted along party lines to reject a DNR request for $4 million in state stewardship funds to pay for part of the largest land conservation deal in state history. In rejecting the money, Republicans decried what they said was a mismanagement of the project by the Department of Natural Resources and outright deceit. Two towns along the project -- which stretches thr...