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A bill in the U.S. House

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would redesignate

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the Apostle Islands as

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Wisconsin's first national park.

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Republican Congressman

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Tom Tiffany introduced

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the measure, and it passed

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committee this spring.

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But local governments

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in and around Bayfield County

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and the Red Cliff Band

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of Lake Superior Chippewa

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oppose the redesignation.

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We're pretty much

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bursting at the seams

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in terms of

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what we can accommodate

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In terms of lodging

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and restaurants.

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That affects workforce

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of course.

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We don't have housing

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for people up here.

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It's hard to have

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to have workforce

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come in that can then

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accommodate all these tourists

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for the businesses.

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So, and

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I know that Mr. Tiffany has

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touted this redesignation

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as a boon for tourism

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but we're basically

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looking for tourism

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in other directions.

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I think, as a whole, we're

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we've done a lot of work

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over the last 15 to 20 years

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trying to create tourism

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as an industry up here

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getting people all the way

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up to northern Wisconsin to

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enjoy Lake Superior and

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the inland lakes that we have.

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We've done a really

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good job of that.

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But what we've really been

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trying to do subsequently

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also, is to try to do that

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in the shoulder seasons

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and in the winter

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to expand tourism

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in those areas.

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The big problem with

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Mr. Tiffany's bill at this point

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in time is that

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we don't know where

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the infrastructure is going

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to come to support it.