Great Expectations; A Mixed Bag
By Bruce Ross, Executive Director
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It’s way too early to determine whether my new dog Tack will live up to my “best dog ever” expectations. It’s a pretty high bar. In the few moments when I’m honest with myself, I expect he’ll prove to be a mixed bag of good and bad. Read on...
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Last Call for 2021 Calendar |
Featuring 365 prizes, one for every day of 2021, including 56 handguns, 29 shotguns, 31 rifles, 4 crossbows, Conro’s Resort guided fishing trips, Stormy Kromer caps, Tactacam Cameras, SportDOG Brand e-collars, gift cards & much more! Only 5,000 sold, they make great gifts for you and yours. Get them here before they sell out - first drawing January 13th!
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More Duck Stamp Outreach: Senator Howard Marklein |
Representatives of WWA and other duck organizations (DU and Delta) met with Senator Howard Marklein and several of his constituents at Cruson Slough near Long Rock last month to discuss the value of the Wisconsin Waterfowl Stamp to conservation. Read on...
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WWA Joins Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame |
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Education Program: Sound Waterfowl Management
By Bruce Urben, President
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Sound conservation is an applied science based on biology and must reckon with certain fundamental principles, otherwise known to most of us as “laws of nature”.
For waterfowl these include: Every Duck has a limited breeding range and a limited wintering range. Less breeding range or less wintering range means less ducks. Read on...
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WWA is partnering with Conservation Digest to survey landowner conservation needs. Learn more...
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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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January's featured Class A is for our Waukesha chapter who will be drawing for this Springfield Armory Hellcat FDE 9mm Pistol on January 28th at 12:30pm at Dan Johnson Taxidermy in Oconomowoc, WI. Tickets just $10 each! Get yours online here or visit Dan's for all your taxidermy needs and buy your tickets there.
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What Am I Missing?
By Rob Monette, Regional Director
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Is it introspective, do I need an explanation... Read on...
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Chalk it up to COVID: In consideration of family and friends of our inductees, we have decided to delay the Annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony. To be sure, we will still be hosting an annual meeting on Saturday, January 23 rd in Oshkosh at the Fox River Brewing Company. Read on...
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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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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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Things That Should Not Go In Your Retriever's Mouth
By Dr. K.C. Brooks, an avid waterfowler, dog lover & practicing veterinarian at Lodi Veterinary Care
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Our retrieving dogs spend much of their lives intentionally putting things into their mouth and delivering them to hand. Because of that instinct, many of our hunting companions are also prone to putting things in their mouth that end up in their stomach. Read on...
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Eat What You Shoot
By DNR Marine Warden Mike Neal
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Like most folks who grew up in a family that enjoyed the outdoors, I spent my childhood waterfowl hunting with my father and his friends. During those hunts, I had the opportunity to repeatedly hear the classic advice: “If you shoot it, you are going to eat it.” Read on...
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Lou Schifferl - Wisconsin Lifetime Artist & Decoy Carver
By Bruce Urben, President
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Wisconsin has a treasure trove of vintage carvers whose decoys have been tools of the trade in our rivers, lakes and streams for generations. Lou Schifferl is one Wisconsin carver who caught the carving bug through his interest in collecting duck decoys. 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:
- In honor of Dr. Mark Greulich - Donor: Kathleen Andreoni
- Mrs. Susan Arenz - Donor: Fred Welch
- Mr. Kyle MacDonald - Donors: Kyle's Book Club Members
- Mr. Josh Meyers - Donor: Laurie Lemerond
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Mr. Randy McCoy - Donors: Multiple, view all here.
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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