All I Want for Christmas
By Bruce Ross, Executive Director
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I’ve had a busy year since joining the WWA staff in late January, so with the imminent season cessation, I’m reflecting on my year: learning people, process, culture; assessing the organization (and where can I make a difference?); attending (even running some), balancing budgets, managing staff, engaging partners, engaging social media, evaluating policy issues, telling the WWA story, etc…whew! It’s been tough to know where to focus.
Read on...
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2020 Annual Meeting: Save the Date!
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On Saturday January 25th, for the first time, WWA will hold its
annual meeting
at Lambeau Field. Highlights will include speakers from the DNR, WWA’s partner organizations, our 4th Annual Hall of Fame induction (including the Packers!). Tours of Lambeau Field will be coordinated for your convenience. This is the weekend before the Superbowl so no football conflicts (unless you are a Pro Bowl fan!).
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In 2020, we will be bringing in some great new raffle and auction items and we would like to try to reactivate or re-establish chapters in some of the following areas: Eau Claire, Hudson, Hayward, Prairie du Chien, Janesville, Lake Geneva/Delavan, Waupaca and Racine/Kenosha. If you live in any of these areas and would be interested in helping to get a chapter started, or know someone in any of these areas who might be interested, please
let me know.
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2020 Calendars Make Great Holiday Gifts
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11th Anniversary Limited Edition, featuring 365 fabulous prizes, including:
- 33 Shotguns
- 51 Handguns
- 36 Rifles
- Vortex Optics...
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Mother Nature is in Charge
By Bruce Urben, President
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In the last 24 days, as I write this, the S
tate has been cold
, snowy and/or rainy with some blustery winds exceeding 30 mph. Certainly not expected for late October and early November.
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Habitat Program Updates
By Peter Ziegler, Project Director
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The landscape can provide many clues when looking to restore a wetland. I recently looked at a potential project that had a dead giveaway of a tile line failure. In all my years I had never seen such a clear indication of a drain tile failure which created this degree of back-pressure
. No, a UFO had not landed here.
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Give the Gift of Education
By Ian Bartelmez, Education Committee
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Hi everybody, by the time this makes it to you, it will be December, duck season will be closed and regular season gun deer will be over. So, with the seasons winding down or over, what kind of educational topic can we put out there?
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I wanted to close out the year by recognizing three very significant state-wide sponsors: Russell Moccasin Company, Tactacam, and SportDOG Brand, gear for our canine best buds! If you’ve attended any WWA events this year, you’ve seen them featured.
Lean more...
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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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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 West Allis Chapter who is running a short-lived Class A raffle that will be drawn in just two weeks on Dec. 15th at the Boxhorn Gun Club in Muskego. Tickets are 1 for $10 or 3 for $20,
only 200 will be sold
& you could win a
Pointer Arista 28ga. O/U Shotgun with 5 Choke Tubes.
Get your tickets here!
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Have an idea you want the wardens to answer in the new year?
Let us know!
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USE A BOAT? Posture is a must to keeping you safe & having fun!
By WDNR
Recreation Warden Mark Little
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Mind your spine, mister!”
This screams from the voice in my head when I'm just about to make an
involuntary
exit from my kayak.
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The Decoy Corner: Robert "Bob" Swann, Another Wisconsin Original
By Bruce Urben, President
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Bob had always been a very talented artist, but in 1962, while whittling on a few chunks of wood, he knew he had found his true calling. He immediately traded in his art canvases for carving tools, vises and sandpaper
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Read Bob's story...
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Mark your calendars for the next WWA event near you and visit our
Events Calendar for everything happening in 2019 & beyond:
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Thank You to Our 2019 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. Lawrence "Butch" Spaight - Donors: Jim Holwerda, Jeffrey & Katherine Nelson, Conservation Wardens of the Northern Region, Carol Mast, Richard & Cathy Bauman
- 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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