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Door County
Coordinator
Jerry Viste, Executive
Director
Door County Environmental
Council
1916 Viste
Road
Sturgeon Bay, WI
54235
DCEC Phone: (920) 743-6003
Fax (920) 743-6727
jerrymv@itol.com
Please
feel free to contact Mr. Viste with news important to Door County.
About Jerry
Viste and Door County Environmental Council
The Door County Environmental
Council, Inc., informally known as “DCEC”, was founded in 1969 and incorporated
as a nonprofit organization in 1971.
Even then, caring citizens could see looming threats to the county’s
waters, bays, wild shores, bluffs, sand dunes, woodlands, wetlands, farms,
orchards, and fields. Realizing that unrestrained commercial development and
urbanization would be disastrous for this beautiful section of the Niagara
Escarpment, the group became an active force for preservation and protection.
We welcome as members all lovers of Door County who stand strongly for
conservation of that which makes our area unique, and which once gone, can
never be regained.
The pressure has been increasing steadily
since those early days as a volunteer organization and it was determined that
an official position would be needed to ensure involvement and effectiveness in
dealing with those issues. The Board of
Directors retained Jerry Viste, then president of DCEC, to serve as executive
director with responsibilities and goals to achieve rational growth and expand
the organization effectiveness. Jerry is an operator of a farm in southern Door
County and was initiated into the environmental efforts locally when his farm
property was chosen as an ash disposal site for a coal-fired generating plant
proposal. As a former educator, he had the knowledge and capability to address
the issues of the power plant and continue forth to the present as the focal
point person for DCEC. The Council has been involved in many extremely
controversial and sometimes unpopular issues in this region. The steady and
uncompromising stature of this established organization has gained a statewide
reputation as a leader group in the field of resource conservation and
protection. It is the sincere intent of
the Board of Directors that the driving force behind this organization will not
diminish with time and change, but continue to expand involvement and effectiveness.
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Read the
Door County
Environmental Council
Spring
2004 Newsletter (PDF)
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