Heres something you might not know from media coverage of the UW-Madisons plans to remake the tip of Picnic Point: The plans are actually quite controversial.
“There were people who were extremely emotional,” says Ron Wallace, co-director of the UW-Madisons creative writing program, of the June 9 campus meeting he attended on the subject. He estimates about half the 50 people there were “vehemently opposed,” and was stunned to see a TV news report that did not mention this.
The university wants to combat shoreline erosion and remove invasive species from the tip of this mile-long peninsula, and build a stone stairway to the waters edge. For a link to a PowerPoint slideshow of preliminary plans, see here; another public meeting will be held this Sunday in the UWs Health Sciences Learning Center, 750 Highland Ave., 7 p.m.