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Whiskers Yellowbanks WFFP Administrator Offline A Poor, Dumb, Pass Lake Slob Posts: 10191 Merle, WI	State Parks in Southern and Southeast WI Closed Apr 9^th, 2020 at 8:59pm Vandalism is the primary cause but also crowding. https://www.wisn.com/article/gov-evers-orders-dnr-to-close-40-state-parks-forest...
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Jizzy Pearl Dragon Fly Offline I need some fuel to run. Posts: 1590 Gender:	Re: State Parks in Southern and Southeast WI Closed Reply #1 - Apr 10^th, 2020 at 10:28am And littering. Apparently the cost of the daily entry fee and/or state park sticker work well in keeping the riff raff out of the state parks. Never understood why they changed it to FREE during this pandemic.
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Jizzy Pearl Dragon Fly Offline I need some fuel to run. Posts: 1590 Gender:	Re: State Parks in Southern and Southeast WI Closed Reply #2 - Apr 10^th, 2020 at 10:35am Add some boat landings and campgrounds to the list as well... https://fox11online.com/news/coronavirus/covid-19-concerns-close-oconto-county-o wned-boat-landings-campgrounds-and-more https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/local/oconto-county/2020/04/07/o...
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WiFlyFisher Ex Member	Re: State Parks in Southern and Southeast WI Closed Reply #3 - Apr 11^th, 2020 at 8:21am As of Friday (4/09)... Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest closed all campgrounds, trails, boat landings and day access areas through May. https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/cnnf/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD722592
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Re: State Parks in Southern and Southeast WI Closed
Reply #4 - Apr 12^th, 2020 at 2:36pm

Jizzy Pearl wrote on Apr 10^th, 2020 at 10:28am:

And littering.

Apparently the cost of the daily entry fee and/or state park sticker work well in keeping the riff raff out of the state parks. Never understood why they changed it to FREE during this pandemic.

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Probably because it would require someone to be there to collect it, and monitor.

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Further North Dragon Fly Offline Posts: 9174 NW WI Gender:	Re: State Parks in Southern and Southeast WI Closed Reply #5 - Apr 12^th, 2020 at 2:38pm Quote: As of Friday (4/09)... Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest closed all campgrounds, trails, boat landings and day access areas through May. https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/cnnf/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD722592 That's a Fed. decision, correct?I Curious how they'll enforce it.
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Jizzy Pearl

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Re: State Parks in Southern and Southeast WI Closed
Reply #6 - Apr 13^th, 2020 at 11:32am

Further North wrote on Apr 12^th, 2020 at 2:36pm:

Jizzy Pearl wrote on Apr 10^th, 2020 at 10:28am:

And littering.

Apparently the cost of the daily entry fee and/or state park sticker work well in keeping the riff raff out of the state parks. Never understood why they changed it to FREE during this pandemic.

Angry

Probably because it would require someone to be there to collect it, and monitor.

The station at my local State Park has someone there. I'm not sure if that's the same everywhere though.

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Flytrap Dragon Fly Offline Retired ne'er do well, gone fishing Posts: 753 Central Wisconsin, sort of. Gender:	Re: State Parks in Southern and Southeast WI Closed Reply #7 - Jan 21^st, 2021 at 4:05pm IIRC this was about the time people were still panicking over the pandemic, and the idea was to get people out of doors in non-mass spreader events. Apparently the possibility they might be creating one wasn't considered.
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