Patrick Durkin: This year’s Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame members getting recognition they long deserved

Whenever folks badmouth public servants who work for schools, agencies or simply “the government,” you’d like to stand them before a crowded auditorium to meet guys like Neil Payne, Keith McCaffery or the late William Lunney.

Once you whistled everyone to attention, you’d invite the critics to explain how and why these three public servants didn’t do enough for Wisconsin during their careers at UW-Stevens Point, the DNR, and our state courts, county offices and county parks. Once the critics failed to justify their griping, you’d hope they have the grace to concede Wisconsin never paid or honored these men enough during their decades of public service.

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