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The Driftless Area Land Conservancy and the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation issued a joint statement praising the decision.

“We should not set a precedent that a simple land swap is all it takes to plow through a national treasure,” Driftless Area Land Conservancy Executive Director Jennifer Filipiak said in the statement.

The Statz family farm is in the Driftless Area, a fertile, rolling swath of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa untouched by ice age glaciers and the rocky “drift” they left as they retreated.

Presumably among the unsnobby, his grandparents Richard and Mallie Lloyd Jones purchased land in 1863 along the Wisconsin River in the Driftless Area, where unglaciated rolling hills eluded the Ice Age debris that leveled much of the Midwest.

After co-workers bought some of her cookies at Christmas 2019, Bohn decided to start her Driftless Cookies business, named after Wisconsin’s driftless region near where she grew up.