Is the Department of Natural Resources a Protector
of Perverts and Child Abusers?
Does anyone in the DNR care about law, morality, and children?
May, 2002

Sign at the entrance of an Illinois state park.

The Department of Natural Resources continues to operate a tax-funded nude beach on the shores of the Wisconsin River near Mazomanie, Wisconsin. A WCU freedom of information search of DNR records makes it clear that DNR officials are fully cognizant of the fact that public nudity is not lawful in Wisconsin; but because of a backroom deal worked out with attorneys representing “naturist” groups, the DNR continues to shelter, protect, and fund public nudity on the Mazo Beach at the expense of taxpayers, morality, children, and respect for true law.

If the nudity at Mazo Beach is not ended by next fall, WCU will be publishing an in-depth report documenting the lies which DNR officials have told to justify the beach and also “cover up” for the nudists regarding the open sex which has taken place there. The report will also document the corruption which created the beach and sustains it as well as contain evidence of how naturist leaders are using the Mazo Beach as part of a nation-wide campaign to mainstream public nudity.

Certainly there must be some fine, moral individuals who work for the DNR whose hearts are broken over their agency’s repulsive defense and maintenance of a naked beach on one of the most beautiful sections of the Wisconsin River. It is the hope of Wisconsin Christians United that persons of integrity within the DNR will do everything in their power to put an end to the ongoing tragedy at Mazo Beach which so tarnishes the reputation of an agency which was created for a noble cause. Once WCU’s report, which will include pictures of two male DNR wardens on the nude beach leering and laughing as they “keep an eye” on the nudists, is released, the public will perhaps fully understand the corrupting influence the beach has had, not only on little children and our culture, but also on the DNR itself.

“I believe the DNR could take an administrative act and could say, ‘On this land owned by the state, nudity is not allowed.’” 
Dane County D.A. Brian Blanchard during a February 13, 2001 interview on WISC Channel 3, Madison.

“I’ll assume that you’re not interested in attempting to enact a DNR property rule which bans nudity. . . . The DA has publicly stated that if we have a ban on nudity, they would enforce it.”
Excerpts from a June 25, 2001 e-mail message from DNR Attorney Michael Lutz to DNR Supervisor Ruthe Badger. Obtained from a WCU freedom of information search.

“The majority of the pedophile images that we have, the majority of the child pornography that we get out of the United States of America comes from nude beaches. They come, of course, from the private nude beaches; because we haven’t had that many people that foolish, or that foolhardy, or that gutless to assign public space to such activity [until now]. . . . The nudist colonies are the places where pedophiles have forever not only been able to get sexual access to children and to abuse children, but quite definitely, to take photographs that become part of the pedophiles’ bona fides and that are exchanged and that are paid for throughout this country and sent to Europe and so forth. And the pain that that causes those children . . . is, of course, incalculable. . . . This [Mazo beach] is an attempt, of course, to establish legally a place in the United States . . . a beachhead for child sexual abuse. They’re [the nudists are] establishing a beachhead for obtaining children for sexual purposes—that is what this is all about . . . it will spread all across the state; it will spread all across the country.” 
—Dr. Judith Reisman

Dr. Reisman is a world renown scholar, lecturer, and child advocate who has testified before parliaments, legislatures, and courts. She is the author of numerous books including Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences. She is a former consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Children of Mazo Beach
Some of the Children the DNR Refuses to Protect

August 28, 1999: A girl with her doll, in the arms of a transvestite man headed for the nude beach.

May 29, 2000: A Christian man with WCU shares from the Bible with two nudists headed for the nude beach with their child.

July 15, 2000: A couple with a toddler in a stroller and a young girl on the way to the nude beach pass concerned Christians. Should little girls such as this be put in the company of hundreds of nude men? The DNR  apparently sees no harm in it.

July 15, 2000: A couple reacts angrily to Christians imploring them to not take their precious little girl into the midst of hundreds of nude adults on the Mazo Beach.

September 3, 2001: A little girl returning from Mazo beach. Why won't the DNR protect little ones such as this? Perhaps someday, one of them will ask that question with a lawsuit after surviving a childhood of abuse, some of it directly related to the Mazo nude beach which the DNR continues to protect and maintain with tax dollars.

July 14, 2001: Help me! A young boy on the back of a bike on the way down the path to the nude beach.

August 11, 2001: When a Christian took this girl's picture on the Mazo nude beach parking lot, the man with the woman holding her sneered, "You can get a better picture in about twenty minutes." How can DNR officials sleep at night?

July 15, 2001: A couple with a small child returning from the bare beach.

June 16, 2001: A 12-year-old boy heading back home from the nude beach hears about Jesus from a Christian on the Mazo beach parking lot. This boy deserved a longer childhood.

August 11, 2001: A three-year-old boy loaded up and waiting for the trip down the path to the DNR's beach-front brothel near Mazomanie.

July 14, 2001: A Christian woman begged the man with the camera not to take this little girl to the DNR's beach. The DNR made sure the girl made it. Warden John Glennon is in the truck in the background. Wardens often escort the children of Mazo beach to their wretched destination while warning Christians not to interfere with the process. The second picture shows a little boy who was taken to the beach by the same man. Both children told Christians present that the man is neither their father nor grandfather. This information was passed on to Warden Glennon, but he shrugged it off as usual.

Produced by Wisconsin Christians United
P.O. Box 771
Monroe, Wisconsin 53566
608-328-4841

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