Kenosha's dunes are in danger

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Warm weather has brought more people to Wisconsin's ecologically-sensitive Kenosha Dunes lately, but not always for legal activities. DNR crews will be monitoring the 62-acre Dunes more frequently this year to reduce the number of vehicles, unleashed dogs and campers at the site.

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[jvjbadger]

This is a 62 acre piece of city land next to the sewerage treatment plant, hardly the worth DNR observation.

Teenagers go back there to drink beer, get high have a camp out.

The best thing they could do with this land is make it a public dirt bike track and charge money to get in and create a little revenue for the city.

The only reason they call it the dunes is because it's next to the lake and is sand, but 80% of the shoreline is the same way.

My kid went down the a couple years ago for a senior high school graduation party, came home the next day with ticks all over him.

J.J.