- Two members of the Indiana Natural Resources Commission, including its chair, have resigned, citing concerns over the Braun administration’s handling of citizen input and the board’s role in working with the Department of Natural Resources.
Two members of the Indiana Natural Resources Commission — including its long-serving chair — have resigned, blaming Gov. Mike Braun’s administration for “stifling” citizen input and curtailing the board’s role working with the Department of Natural Resources.
“After decades of service, it is disheartening to see the Commission’s role diminished and the voices of those who have supported and worked with it for generations increasingly disregarded,” wrote chair Bryan Poynter in a resignation letter to Braun on Tuesday.
At the commission’s last meeting in March, Poynter sounded off against a new practice by DNR Director Alan Morrison that the chair said excluded the citizen panel from the input process…