Tuesday, April 28, 2009

More Izzy And The Monarchs

A reader notified me that I am not the only that has been in support of the Izzy, "Butterfly" Barb Agnew, Friends of the Monarch Trail, and, of course, the Monarchs themselves.

Phil Cianciola, of 620TMJ's Greenhouse Show, has also posted on his blog his support for this very worthwhile cause:
You may not know it, but there is some big-time wheeling and dealing taking place between Milwaukee County and UWM for some very important natural area out on the county grounds.

It's the home of the migration of the butterflies, and it is a pretty amazing story. We are lucky to have such a special slice of nature in our backyard.

I for one am with "Butterfly" Barb Agnew, who has spearheaded the fight to keep this sacred place as it is, and not cave in to what I am sure is big $$ for a UWM expansion...nothing against UWM, heck, I'm a grad. But when it comes to swallowing up more and more of Mother Nature, enough is enough.
Mr. Cianciola also has a link to this news story done by George Mallet of TMJ4:
Izzy Boudnik floated about the Zoofari Conference Center looking very much like the Monarch butterfly she hoped to emulate. The 9-year-old had fashioned colorful wings and fastened them to her back before attending a meeting of the Milwaukee County Board Committee on Economic and Community Development.

The board was holding a public hearing on the proposed sale of a portion of the Milwaukee County Grounds to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee for an engineering campus.

Little Izzy wanted the board to know about her beloved butterflies.

“The butterflies migrate here,” she said sincerely. “This is their place for food. This is the place where they rest.”

The group, Friends of the Monarch Trail, is urging the county to create a conservancy to maintain control of the land before any deal goes through with UWM.
It does baffle the mind when the TV and the radio station have people that get it, but the paper's editorial board is again clueless.

Unfortunately, County Executive Scott Walker wants to ignore the agreement and his own promise to keep the land in its natural state and is just looking to get some more political favors to bolster his already failing campaign. To make matters worse, there are some members of the County Board that are either too timid or too lazy or too something to do the right thing and would rather just take the path of least resistance instead of the path of the least harm.

Again, I urge you to call your County Board Supervisor and tell them that this nonsense has to be stopped and stopped now. I, for one, am sick of Walker ruining what's left of Milwaukee County for his own political aspirations.

4 comments:

  1. Thanks again. For continued writing on this topic. And I must thank Barb for taking up this cause.

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  2. Love your blog. I linked to you today- just wanted to let you know.

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  3. I can't say enough Thank You's.

    We ar sporting our new shirts courtesy of Lu that say it all "SAVE OUR COUNTY GROUNDS".

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