Bill Tracy, Interim Dean of the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences (CALS), notes the challenges of maintaining strong undergraduate programs in CALS, and the potential impact on students from rural areas. I am not going to bemoan the state budget and its treatment of higher education, as this is a national bipartisan trend. However, we will not be able to do what we’ve done in the past. That is likely, in some ways, a good thing.
Agriculture, natural resources, and the life scienc
I will be presenting at the Statewide Cooperating Foresters Meeting tomorrow in Stevens Point on the proposed changes to the MFL. Here are some addtional resources.
LEGISLATIVE
Senate Bill 161* — updated as bill proceeds
Assembly Bill 402* — updated as bill proceeds
Legislative Council Study Committee to Review the Managed Forest Land Program [link broken] — static archive
*Most times the texts of bills provide summaries that do a good job of describing what the legislation
