2013 brought neighbors in the Black River Forest area of Wilson, Wisconsin together to raise concerns  over a Kohler Company proposed championship golf course which would result in a catastrophic removal and ongoing pollution of the ecological elements that define our Lake Michigan lakeshore. The Company owns 247 acres of forest, dunes and wetlands adjacent to Kohler Andrae State Park. While asking Governor Scott Walker to expedite their project the company stated it wanted several acres of the adjacent Kohler Andrae State Park land easements through the park to reach its land. We wanted to make sure that the impacts would be studied diligently with transparency and that a billionaire and a Wisconsin resident be accountable to the same rule of law. Yes, this sounds naive and has been a David and Goliath battle.  Our journey has been long, challenging the DNR on the environmental passes it continues to give violating the mission of this agency to protect the common resources of Wisconsin.

FBRF believes that no landowner has the right to contaminate our Great Lake and our groundwater, endanger rare wetlands, and reduce a lakeshore ecosystem's habitat to that of a residential subdivision. We believe that Federal, State and City governments should be held accountable to hold corporations to the same rule of law we all are expected to follow. This has not been the case. Our efforts continue in the courts and in the public arena to preserve this Central Wisconsin Lake Michigan landscape and our state gem, Kohler Andrae State Park.