Voters at DNR's Spring Hearings Want to Restrict Wake Surfing

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 -- 8:01 AM

(Bob Hague, Wisconsin Radio Network) Votes at the annual Spring DNR Surveys show Wisconsin residents want to restrict wake surfing.

According to Bob Hague with Wisconsin Radio Network, that was just one of the topics up for a vote at the Spring Hearing. On a vote of 10,274 to 3,363, residents agreed they want the state to take action to ban excessive wakes on lakes smaller than 1500 acres and require any wake surfing on lakes that are large enough to allow for it to take place at least 700 feet from shore.

That is far more restrictive than a plan forwarded by Republican lawmakers last fall. The bill would have allowed wakeboarding on lakes as small as 50 acres, but it failed to advance.

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