There go the cowardly objectors again.

1) It’s clear Anonymous wasn’t on the tour.
2) Can you believe Roger DeGris’ Peninsula View property has many times 600+ feet of virtually tax free shoreline, courtesy of the Managed Forest Law program? So what? He and we (incidentally) are merely availing ourselves of property tax relief provisions which the law affords.
3) Carve up the land? Nonsense. Anonymous should have been on the tour. A residential subdivision, which is allowable as of right, would truly carve up the land. Not the camp as laid out by the CUP application..
4) “Disrupt a calm pristine lake”? Once again, the objectors can’t even agree on their story. Objector Dale Smith claims the main basin of the lake is a speedboat alley that would threaten the safety of campers in kayaks. Anonymous, in contrast, claims the lake is “calm.” Calmness in the face of huge numbers of speedboats, eh? And what constitutes the alleged “disruption?” Children swimming in a secluded bay or canoeing or kayaking in the waters close to the camp according to objectors like Anonymous. The charge of disruption is simply preposterous and based on utter selfishness.
5) Squash Lake suffering from “a serious ground water problem?” The level of Squash Lake, like other seepage lakes in the Northwoods, is below normal water levels because of the continuing drought in northern Wisconsin but the camp will have absolutely no impact on that situation because: i) the water used by the camp is recycled into the ground; and ii) hydrologic studies indicate the well’s water table is isolated and separate from the lake’s basin.
6) “For this?” Yes, for a beautiful Christian chapel and education center. Thanks for demeaning Christianity, Anonymous. Pantheists, which sound strikingly just like you, get to worship the lake from their lakeside homes; but according to you, Christian people must be kept from worshiping the Creator of the lake from a lakeside chapel dedicated to Him.
7) A facility that could be placed anywhere with its indoor amenities? That goes for every single family residence and apartment building along situated at Squash Lake. So what?
8) Destruction of “serious natural resources.” Like what? This isn’t wetland. We’re talking about devoting less than 1 acre of almost 60 acres for structural development, with the land’s desirable features being preserved substantially intact. Anonymous would apparently prefer destruction of the entire tract of almost 60 acres by an intensive subdivision permitted as of right. How absurd.
9) Find a “nice 100+ acre parcel” elsewhere? The same selfish NIMBYs will pop-up there, too. You know that’s almost certain to be the case, Anonymous. Why don’t YOU find another parcel “elsewhere.” Chances are we were lakefront property owners at Squash Lake (since early 1942) before you were. Lots of lake homes are presently for sale on small, quiet, pristine lakes.

We’ve complied with all objective government rules and have spent well into six figures on studies specific to this parcel of land based upon findings made by the County’s P&Z Committee in mid-2006. We’re not required to throw that money down the drain and start all over, ad infinitum. In our opinion, federal law requires that a Conditional Use Permit be issued to us. Anonymous, just like virtually every other objector, never bothers to address the requirements of the federal religious land use law and our rights thereunder, choosing instead to bury his or her head in the pristine sands of Squash Lake.

Oh my, can you believe 600+ tax free feet of shoreline. Carve up what took nature thousands of years to make. Disrupt a calm pristine lake that is suffering from a serious ground water problem. For this? A facility that could be placed anywhere with its "indoor" amenities and its camping that is camp that is fully climate-controlled. Lets just say NO, No, NO to this detruction of serious natural resources. Eagle Cove Camp and Conference Center can find a nice 100 plus acres of land where it is not tearing up are natural resources.