The Open Water Edition
Wisconsin’s Changing Zone Structure: 2021-2025
By Bruce Ross, Executive Director
At least for me, it’s difficult to think beyond the the duck season immediately ahead, but we are going to try with this newsletter. Read on...
Open Water Raffle: Winner Takes All!
Grand Prize: 4-person Guided Open Water Hunt on Lake Michigan or Green Bay with  Nolan’s Top Gun Charters  for the 2020 or 2021 Season PLUS a Remington Versamax 12ga 3 1/2″ Mag. Semi-Auto Shotgun! Tickets just $20 each, only 150 will be sold, drawing July 28th. Get your tickets here!
Lake Michigan Zone: A History
By Peter Peshek
Bruce Ross has given me an impossible task: "Peter, please write a short essay on the background of the creation of a Lake Michigan zone for duck hunting". In short, discuss forty years of regulatory modifications and the greatest change to the Lake Michigan eco-system since the retreat of the glaciers, all in about three hundred words.  Read on...
Open Water Zone: Survey Sez...
By Bruce Ross, Executive Director
Every other year WWA develops a survey for our members and other waterfowlers to be able to represent your interests in the hunting decisions to be considered by the DNR and the legislature. This past survey (late 2019)... Read on
Making Waterfowl Zone Sausage
By Taylor Finger, WDNR Migratory Game Bird Ecologist
In 2021, Wisconsin will see its biggest waterfowling structure change in decades, with the creation of a Lake Michigan “Open Water Zone”. This will be the source of many debates around the duck camp. If you want to be knowledgeable for such debates, here’s the DNR background on how this zone came into existence.  Read on.
Hunter Surveys on Lake Michigan and Green Bay
By Luke Fara, U.S. Geological Survey Biologist
Gathering opinions and information from stakeholders is a critical component to maintaining healthy wildlife populations.  Read on...
Sea Ducks of Freshwater Lake Michigan
By Bruce Ross, Executive Director
Open water hunting has a different character than more traditional Wisconsin marshes, lakes, fields and rivers. Besides the different gear required, and the different safety issues, there are the very different species of waterfowl. Read on...
Open Water Hunting
By Bruce Urben, President
Waterfowl hunting has changed over the last fifteen years on the bay of Green Bay. The bay was historically known as a waterfowl hotbed, and indeed is still a stopover for northern migration flights each fall. Read on...
Notes From A Lake Michigan Seaduck Outfitter
By Bruce Ross, Executive Director
While I’ve hunted the  open waters of Green Bay with Bruce Urben and his sons Bryan and Eric , I’ve never targeted sea ducks. So I reached out to guide Nolan Koepp Of  Nolan’s Top Gun Charters  out of Port Washington to get “the flavor of the bean.” Read on...
Waterfowl Parasite Survey Update
By Dr. Sarah A. Orlofske
Reece Mullen and Demirae Berceau were the leaders of the project this semester to undertake some of the DNA methods to identify our parasite samples and discover any potentially new species. They also planned to continue dissections of the frozen specimens we had collected from WWA during the fall to look at any differences in parasite load between sexes and species of ducks. Learn more...
DNR Announces 2020 Season Structure
Following review of relevant science and extensive public input presented by staff, the NRB approved the 2020 bag limits and season dates. Highlights from the season structure include: Read on...
2020-2030 Waterfowl Management Plan Now Available
The DNR and waterfowl/ conservation organizations (including WWA) have been working collaboratively on this plan over the past year and a half with the goal of developing a plan that lays out the management actions needed to improve waterfowl populations, waterfowl research, waterfowl surveys and hunter satisfaction over the next decade in the state of Wisconsin. Learn more...
Sporting Clays
Need to Practice Your Shooting Skills?
Join WWA at our first non-virtual events since March with our Ozaukee County Sporting Clays Shoot July 12th and/or at our Abrams Sporting Clays Shoot July 18th! Enjoy the outdoors, sharpen your shooting eye, pull the trigger a bunch (at a safe social distance!), win great prizes and begin thinking about fall hunting opportunities! 
Like What We're Doing?
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!
Mark your calendars for the next WWA event near you and visit our Events Calendar for everything happening in 2020 & beyond:
Next Two Sponsors Have a 1 in 5 Chance of Winning!
Want to win a Dog Lover’s Package? The next three people who   join WWA as $200 Habitat Sponsor online here   will have a one in five chance of winning “The Dog Lover’s Giveaway”.   Learn more...  
Thank You to Our 2020 Sponsors & Donors
Silver Level Sponsors
Bronze Level Sponsors
State Level Sponsors
State Level Donors
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
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.  
 
To contact us call (800) 524-8460 or (262) 968-1722, email wwainfo@centurytel.net or visit our website at  www.wisducks.org