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POLL OVERVIEW<br />
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State Senator Tom Casperson has introduced a bill to prohibit the Department of Natural Resources from designating an area of land specifically for the purpose of achieving &quot;biological diversity</span><span style="font-size: medium;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">.<br />
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The bill would amend several parts of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act to do the following:<br />
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&nbsp;--&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibit the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Natural Resources Commission from promulgating or enforcing a rule or an order that designates or classifies an area of land specifically for the purpose of achieving or maintaining biological diversity.<br />
&nbsp;--&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Delete the conservation of biological diversity from the DNR's duties regarding forest management, and require the Department to balance its management activities with economic values.<br />
&nbsp;--&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Eliminate a requirement that the DNR manage forests in a manner that promotes restoration.<br />
&nbsp;--&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Provide that a State department or agency would not have to designate or classify an area of land specifically for the purpose of achieving or maintaining biological diversity.<br />
&nbsp;--&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Eliminate the restoration of natural biological diversity from the definition of </span><span style="font-size: medium;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">conservation</span><span style="font-size: medium;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">.<br />
&nbsp;--&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Eliminate a reference to </span><span style="font-size: medium;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">unusual flora and fauna</span><span style="font-size: medium;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> in the definition of&nbsp; </span><span style="font-size: medium;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">natural area</span><span style="font-size: medium;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">.<br />
&nbsp;--&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Delete a legislative finding that most losses of biological diversity are the result of human activity.<br />
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NEW POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Are you in favor of the State passing a law that would restrict setting aside state land for </span><span style="font-size: medium;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">biological diversity</span><span style="font-size: medium;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">?<br />
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Yes<br />
No<br />
Undecided<br />
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http://www.clinton-countygop.org/content/are-you-favor-state-passing-law-would-restrict-setting-aside-state-land-%E2%80%9Cbiological-diversit<br />
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