Wisconsin’s high court grounded wetland regulation in ecological interdependence

Evidence

The Wisconsin Supreme Court offered a similar argument in Just v. Marinette County, a 1972 decision upholding the state’s Shoreland Protection Act. For the court, a controlling factor in the case was “the interrelationship of the wetlands, the swamps and the natural environment of the shorelands to the purity of the water and to such natural resources as navigation, fishing, and scenic beauty.” The court also pointed to the growing recognition of the importance of swamps and wetlands in “the balance of nature.” — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 949

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• XREF: connects to: Ecological awareness made traditional property boundaries legally untenable — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 946; Ecological land interdependence shifted legal theory toward communal property rights — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 948