VOTE ON NEW PROPOSED WAKEBOARD REGULATIONS
The Wisconsin Conservation Congress offers citizens the ability weigh in on natural resource matters each year through its Spring Hearings. Citizen offered questions are put up to a vote by participants in the hearings, and those that pass eventually are provided to the Natural Resources Board, Dept. of Natural Resources, and the Legislature as suggested paths forward on an issue. WCC resolutions are advisory only.
While the in-person meetings took place this past Monday, citizens can register their vote online from noon, April 10, 2024 through noon, April 13 .
Three questions regarding wakesports and wakeboats are available in this years set of questions, along with questions regarding fish management and other natural resource topics:
- Questions 32 and 42 ask if the use of wakeboat ballast tanks systems, which don’t drain fully as designed and can cause the transfer of aquatic invasive species from one lake to the next, should be banned in Wisconsin
- Question 43 asks if the legislature should pass a law prohibiting the “generation of intentionally magnified wakes for wake surfing through the use of ballast, design features, operational procedures or any other means on lakes smaller than 1500 acres and less than 20 feet deep and maintain a distance from shore and other lake users of 700 feet
Wisconsin Lakes supports a vote of YES on these advisory questions.