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Happy Earth Day!
By Bruce Ross, Executive Director
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If your inbox is anything like mine, it’s filled with all sorts of emails with concerning COVID subjects. Since I’m also an elected county supervisor, I’m getting all the county activity reports, updates and warnings, as well the general emails making the circuit. It’s nearly overwhelming.
This newsletter tries to take a break from all that, and it’s a little shorter than most, with our plan to bring you shorter notes, more frequently during this period.
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Class A "Need Not be Present to Win" Raffles
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Throughout the year most of our chapters hold
Class A raffles
, many featuring multiple prizes and some extremely desirable guns (that you probably wouldn’t buy for yourself, but sure would like to own). If you can’t attend every event, and who can, you can still get in on a chance to win the chapter’s showcase prizes, most with great odds to win.
Check them all out here
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This month's featured Class A is for our
W
aukesha Chapter,
which will be drawn
April 23rd
. Tickets are 1 for $20 or 3 for $40, only 300 will be sold & you could win a
Beretta A400 Xtreme Plus Camo 12 Gauge.
Get your tickets here!
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Earth Day's 50th Anniversary
By Bruce Urben, President
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Lately it seems the only thing on most of our minds is the Coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 has certainly changed our world in the last several weeks!
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By Mike Alaimo, Lead AWA Volunteer
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If not done already, wood duck boxes need tending. This is a great time to take youth, friends and family out to check and clean boxes.
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WWA's UTV raffle is back for 2020! Grand prize Can Am HD 8 UTV & Karavan Trailer, 2nd prize Links Whitetail Safaris 3-day Archery Hunt and 3rd prize $500 Russell Moccasin Gift Certificate could be yours for just $10/ticket or 3 for $20. All proceeds benefit our mission.
Get your tickets here
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I'm Back!
By Tom Seibert, Interim RD
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No, this is not an April Fool's Day joke. I am back working for WWA for a limited time during these trying times.
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Consider volunteering to help one of our Chapters make a difference by improving the wetlands, waterfowl, and wildlife in Wisconsin. Thanks for all your past and future support.
I want to help!
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The Decoy Corner: Grayson C. Chesser - Master Decoy Carver
By Bruce Urben, President
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Grayson Chesser is one of the most respected decoy carvers of his generation, being trained by the likes of Cigar Daisey and the Wards. His decoys are highly valued on the collector market, some selling for $1,000 or more!
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Calendar Drawing Location Change
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Due to current COVID-19 restrictions, the location of our calendar drawings, Marsh Inn, is closed until further notice. Monthly drawings will now be held at 506 W. Washington Street, Valders, WI until further notice. We ask that the public not attend at this time to comply with current state restrictions.
Drawings will continue to be held on the SECOND WEDNESDAY of each month. Results will continue to be posted online
here.
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Mark your calendars for the next WWA event near you and visit our
Events Calendar for everything happening in 2020 & beyond:
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Have an idea you want the wardens to answer in the new year?
Let us know!
State & Flyway: Views From the Field & Beyond
By Lt. Tyler Strelow, Supervisor of the DNR’s Mississippi River Warden Team
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As a “waterfowl cop” I often get asked by hunters: “Is everybody behaving themselves today?”
Most often, the answer to that question is: “Yes!”
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A couple of weeks ago, we began to receive some online donations in memoriam to Randy McCoy from Oshkosh. Randy passed away in early March...
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Thank You to Our 2020 Sponsors & Donors
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Thanks to all those that have cherished the memory of a loved one by donating in memoriam to the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association. Those recently memorialized were:
- Mr. Randy McCoy - Donors: Multiple, view all here.
- Mr. Gordon Seibert - Donors: Jim Freck, Mike Depies, Dennis Guttmann, Greg Rausch
- Mr. Lawrence "Butch" Spaight - Donors: Jim Holwerda, Jeffrey & Katherine Nelson, Conservation Wardens of the Northern Region, Carol Mast, Richard & Cathy Bauman, Christopher & Stacy Spaight, Randy & Nichole Mittelstaedt, Thomas & Linda Cervero
- Mr. Glenn Zachow - Donors: Greg Rausch, Tony LaMacchia, Jim Freck, Mike Depies
- Mr. David E. Hughes - Donors: Mr. & Mrs. Jim Tavares, Mr. & Mrs. Fred Welch
- Mr. Joseph Porten- Donors: WWA 2018 Board of Directors and Staff
- Attorney Dan Fay - Donor: Dale W. Arenz
If you'd like to consider a lasting and meaningful memorial fund contribution for that friend, hunting partner, co-worker or relative with WWA, please
contact us
. Each contribution will offer:
- A personalized letter to the family of the deceased,
- A letter from WWA sent to the donor confirming contribution for tax purposes (address & individual donation amount must be supplied),
- The option for the donor to designate which WWA program they wish their contributions be put towards, and a listing in this section for the duration of one year
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The Wisconsin Waterfowl Association is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission focuses on wetland and upland habitat restoration, youth and adult environmental education and environmental- and hunter-based legislation.
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