A provision of the state budget bill would eliminate a program that a local invasive species coordinator says helped them fight water invasives here in the north.
The Wisconsin Environmental Education Board helped get grants to Oneida county's A.I.S. program says Coordinator Michele Sadauskas. She says one grant enabled the program to hire a person to contact ice anglers...
"....they were able to talk to just over a thousand people...and we were able to gather a lot of data that we normally would not have during the winter time. So (WEEB) really helped us..."
Sadauskas says they're waiting for word on another $5,000 grant that would be used for A.I.S. education for young people.
According to the website, the Board would be gone as of July 1, with funding ending in fiscal 2015, but grants in the pipeline would still be under consideration. The board is composed of 17 members including several cabinet secretaries.
