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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Gill finds the circuit court properly affirmed the administrative law judge's decision reversing the natural resources department's issuance of a wetland individual permit to the manufacturing company related to the construction of a new golf course that would require discharging dredged or fill material into more than three acres of wetlands. The relevant Wisconsin statutes require the department to consider the entire "proposed project" beyond just the effects on the specific impacted wetlands, which necessarily includes secondary impacts on wetland functional values such as the value of bird habitats and "scenic beauty," water quality and other net environmental impacts. There is also substantial evidence that the department did not have sufficient information to determine the overall adverse impacts of the project at the time it issued the permit, and it is also concluded that the administrative law judge did not require the department to make quantitative findings about secondary impacts of the project. Affirmed.