A national watchdog group has urged U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director Martha Williams to take stronger action against the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for allegedly logging public wildlife lands primarily for commercial timber production.
The complaint letter this week from Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, criticized a timber-related agreement forged between the two agencies on Dec. 5. The agreement established “action items” for a path forward from a couple of years of discord over an ongoing DNR program that intensified timber sales on federally funded, DNR-controlled state wildlife management areas.
