WDFW slates meet on Bonnie Lake proposal

In the wake of two tense public meetings full of protesting land-owners, the state department of fish and wildlife is holding its own public meeting April 27.

The game department is floating a proposal to turn thousands of acres of farmland along Bonnie and Rock Lake into a state-owned, public water corridor.

More than 40 land-owners, some from families that have farmed the land for more than 100 years, have strongly protested the state’s plan. Protestors came to a county park board meeting and a county commissioner meeting in March.

Regional wildlife program manager Kevin Robinette attended t...