LANSING – State Rep. Beau LaFave, R-Iron Mountain, said he is working on a plan to create an Upper Peninsula Natural Resources Commission.

“The Department of Natural Resources has violated our property rights for too long, flying their airplanes low over our hunting land looking for bait piles without a warrant,” LaFave said in a news release. “I want you to know that I had an amendment to end this unconstitutional practice. Unfortunately, Gov. Whitmer was going to veto it, and for that reason, it was not included in this year’s budget.”

LaFave said language of a bill package to create an Upper Peninsula Natural Resources Commission will be released in the upcoming weeks.

“We lost this fight, but the war is not over,” he said. “I will continue to fight to preserve and protect the due process rights of our citizens north of the Mackinac Bridge.”