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Wind farm opponents gear up for fight

Local group hears advice from allies in other parts of Wisconsin
Wind farm opponents gear up for fight
LOTS TO LOOK THROUGH - Trine Spindler of Farmland First displays one of the bulky folders sent to Lori Witthuhn, right, a town chair in Oconto County who is trying to stop a solar farm from being built in her township. Also pictured is Brenda Salseg, a former town of Forest resident who helped fend off a proposed wind farm in St. Croix County. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN O’BRIEN
Wind farm opponents gear up for fight
LOTS TO LOOK THROUGH - Trine Spindler of Farmland First displays one of the bulky folders sent to Lori Witthuhn, right, a town chair in Oconto County who is trying to stop a solar farm from being built in her township. Also pictured is Brenda Salseg, a former town of Forest resident who helped fend off a proposed wind farm in St. Croix County. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN O’BRIEN

Ten years it took for the town of Forest in St. Croix County to fight off a proposed wind farm on the western edge of Wisconsin.

But, in the end, “we won,” said former town resident Brend...

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