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Open... Or Shut? WWA Work Continues
By Bruce Ross, Executive Director
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Events are happening… we hope! In the past three weeks, WWA has begun hosting events again - good news for those wanting some fun activities, as well as helping to keep the lights on at your WWA. Two sporting clay events and a golf outing brought record numbers of participants to enjoy the good weather and the fun games we had set up around the courses. I guess people just wanted to get out in the good weather - and it didn’t hurt that it was for a good cause. Over the next two months, WWA is jamming a year’s worth of events into the calendar - we hope! Read on...
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Win a CanAm HD 8 UTV
Drawing August 30th!!
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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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Help Us Continue Our Missions |
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Education Update
By Bruce Urben, President
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According to Hunter Nicolai, WDNR’s Learn to Hunt Coordinator (what a great name for his position), Wisconsin’s Learn to Hunt programs are going to be back in full swing this fall. Read on...
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The WWA Policy world has been pretty active in July, with meetings on Duck Stamp fees and exploring the possibility of a Sandhill Crane season.
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Knowles Nelson Stewardship Program FAQ |
Wisconsin’s Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program – one of the country’s strongest conservation initiatives is at risk of expiring due to legislative and administration inaction. And with its expiration, Wisconsin’s primary funding model for the protection and restoration of lands important to wildlife will disappear. Read on...
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Outside the AWA
By Mike Alaimo, Lead AWA Volunteer
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With COVID restrictions in place this season, the DNR purple loosestrife program was put on hold. There were, however, some plants raised and infected with beetles, as a side project outside the WWA ranks. Learn more...
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An endangered Black Tern in flight. Photo copyrighted and courtesy Paul Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Black Tern Nesting Project Highlighted in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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I hope some of you caught the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on Mike Alaimo’s black tern nesting project. In recent articles you’ll have seen Mike Alimo’s efforts, and lately, successes in the black tern nesting program at Rome Pond. Read on...
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Despite the government shutdowns due to the pandemic, life, and nature, go on at WWA’s Adopt-a-Wildlife Area program. And that program to assist at public hunting areas continues strongly during the pandemic. Read on...
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Thank You Bill Lastes Family! |
We have heard that some hunters at the Abrams property have had issues retrieving their ducks and geese if they did not have a dog and water levels were just above wader levels. Problem solved when WWA member Joel Doepke of Oconto, WI contacted us about a boat that his neighbor Bill Lastes wanted to get rid of. Read on...
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Class A "Need Not be Present to Win" Raffles |
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 Midland WIngs Chapter which will be drawn at their August 20th banquet at The Columbian in West BEnd. Tickets 1 for $10 or 3 for $20, only 500 will be sold & you could win: 1st Prize: Beretta A-300 12ga Walnut Semi-Auto Shotgun, 2nd Prize: Ruger Super Redhawk SS 44 Mag. Revolver, 3rd Prize: Savage Axis 30-06 Bolt Rifle w/ Scope Get your tickets here.
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Tom's Event Corner
By Interim RD Tom Seibert
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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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Sponsor Spotlight: Henry Arms |
WWA is pleased to have recently established a sponsor relationship with another Wisconsin company - Henry Repeating Arms. Learn more....
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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!
The DNR Warden & His K9 Good Citizen
By DNR Conservation Warden Ben Mott
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I am one of several Wisconsin DNR conservation wardens who works with an American Kennel Club-certified good citizen.
Make that a four-legged good citizen. Strike that. Make that a wicked-smart good citizen that excels at a host of duties from community relations, to finding missing game for a hunter, or a lost hunter! And one that really likes meetings citizens of all ages. Read on...
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Benjamin S. Schmidt - Michigan Premier Carver
By Bruce Urben, President
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While most of my Decoy Corner articles have focused on Wisconsin’s original carvers, one carver in neighboring Michigan was very well known, and some described his product as “the All American Working Decoy”. Read on...
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Greg Kidd Recognized as Part of 2020 National Biologist Awards |
Each year NRCS selects top employees to honor special achievements nationally. Greg was selected for his outstanding technical leadership skills in his field. Read on...
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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:
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Mr. Randy McCoy - Donors: Multiple, view all here.
- Mr. Gordon Seibert - Donors: Jim Freck, Mike Depies, Dennis Guttmann, Greg Rausch
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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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