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New information added on July 24, 2008

Websites Wisconsin State Legislature link Additional Helpful Organizations Protect America’s Rights & Resources (PARR) (Monitors Native American issues effecting access to wildlife and relating to all citizens in Wisconsin) P. O. Box 27007 Milwaukee, WI 53227-0007

State News “New Wave of UNESCO World Heritage Sites Proposed” - By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA Position Brief, June 2007) This spring, the National Park Service announced that 36 locations in the United States have been proposed for UNESCO World Heritage Sites, adding to the twenty that already are designated in this country. Such international recognition potentially threatens private property rights because preservationists could exploit the designation to stop the use of land in the region just beyond a site’s borders. More on this topic: Biosphere Reserves & World Heritage Sites “Chicago Biosphere Reserve Considered by Steering Committee” — By Wesley Sholtes, Contributing Writer, (PRFA, February 15, 2003) Chicago Wilderness, a committee involving a coalition of over 160 government agencies, non-profit organizations, environmental groups, and other private entitles, is clamoring for a U.N. Biosphere Reserve to encompass the City of Chicago and 10 counties in southeastern Wisconsin, northeastern Illinois, and northwestern Indiana. More on this topic: Biosphere Reserves & World Heritage Sites “Hydroelectric Dams Subject to FERC Relicensing—1998-2010” - from Positions on Property, Vol. 4, No. 1 (PRFA, Nov. 1998) (Jump to Wisconsin information) More on this topic: Dam Relicensing under FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) “Existing and Tentative U.N. World Heritage Sites in the United States”-reprinted from Positions on Property, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Nov. 1998) (Jump to Wisconsin information) More on this topic: Biosphere Reserves & World Heritage Sites “Existing National Heritage Areas and Areas Under Federal Study” Complete List - June 1997 (PRFA, June 1997) Wisconsin: Mississippi River Corridor Study More on this topic: Heritage Rivers and Areas

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