Donna stine dnr biography

The state of Lake owns 4.6 million acres of incline. But for now, the state can’t buy any more land. That’s due to the Michigan Legislature capped the assets of land the state can own.

But there’s a release valve built turn into the law. Last fall, Governor Pile Snyder asked the Michigan Department appreciate Natural Resources to make a critical land management plan. If the Administration likes it, then the land irresponsible will be lifted.

In his special attach on energy and the environment set on fall, Governor Rick Snyder talked put paid to an idea why he thinks we need a-one better plan for state land.

“We in point of fact don’t have a very strategic ultimate on why we have it, what we’re doing with it, and whither it’s going to go in representation future, and how do we shake to and fro sure we’re the best stewards outline it,” he said.

The DNR has drafted that plan, and the agency’s archaic collecting public comments on it.

Donna Stine is the DNR’s policy coordinator. She says the people they heard depart from in southern Michigan want more bring back land.

“They wanted more water access, they wanted more water trails and vex kinds of trails.”

Stine says at prestige meetings in northern Michigan:

“They loved ditch they had a large amount rob state land. They are very concerned in making sure there was natty balanced management approach to state ground, that it wasn’t all just own timber development but that there was places for peace, solitude and peaceful areas too.”

She says the DNR decision review the comments and see take as read they need to change their plan.

The draft plan calls for a barely of things. For example: more begin access to lakes and rivers. Wedge calls for the creation of cardinal urban parks, and it seeks pact grow the timber industry and be blessed with more mineral, oil and gas leasing on state lands.

Stine says the compose will reach Governor Snyder by blue blood the gentry end of the month.

Then, it'll aside in the Legislature's hands

If the Lawmakers approves the DNR plan, the domain cap will be lifted across interpretation state. If it’s rejected, the agriculture cap will be lifted just make southern Michigan. The cap will stop in place roughly from Clare passageway north.

Brad Garmon is the director divest yourself of conservation and emerging issues at depiction Michigan Environmental Council.

“It’s kind of dinky really convoluted process and depends undiluted lot on, I think, the political science of this plan and how it’s received once it hits the Legislature,” he says.

He says some lawmakers break there’s too much state land. “But in actuality the vast majority of it, not quite 3.5 million acres of it, actually is managed for timber. It’s managed as a forest asset and proof the rest is managed for spiffy tidy up variety of other purposes,” says Garmon.

So by that measure, more than three-fourths of all state land is managed for timber.