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"Dog Days" of Summer? Not for Your WWA
By Bruce Ross, Executive Director
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I’ve got some “cats and dogs” updates scattered throughout this July e-news, but there’s no mid-summer let down in sight; there’s a lot going on at your WWA, and under some very challenging conditions. I’m the sort of guy who wants the bad news first (because it makes any subsequent good news all the sweeter), so
that's where I’ll start..
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Summer Is Officially Here
By Bruce Urben, President
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The days are the longest of the year, the grass is growing like crazy and temperatures are reaching record levels again… it’s great to be in Wisconsin! I want to extend a sincere “thank you” to our membership who responded to our request for help to get through the initial stages of the shutdown due to the health pandemic.
Read on...
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Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
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Habitat: Log Jamming and “There is a season, tern, tern, tern…. “
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With DNR field staff prohibited from going afield, our
Adopt A Wildlife Area
teams have been finding ways to help fill the gap on our public hunting lands.
Read on...
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Habitat Program Updates
By Peter Ziegler, Project Director
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We Have Chicks!
By Mike Alaimo, Lead AWA Volunteer
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Jackson Marsh Adopt A Wildlife Area Projects
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Policy: Stamps, Structure, Stewardship, Sandhills?
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Our Policy team, lead by Director Randy Helbach, is growing, with some exceptional talent and commitment. Just in time for some exciting challenges:
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Education: NEXGEN “Baby Steps"and Bringing WI Waterfowlers Together
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It’s looking like the DNR has lifted COVID-related restrictions on Learn-to-Hunts (LTH) this fall. And that’s good news for WWA volunteers who are looking to put on three new LTH schools around the state.
Read on...
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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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Tom's Event Corner
By Interim RD Tom Seibert
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Celebrate the 4th with WWA's Patriotic Raffles!
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Last call for our Handmade King Size Quilt in Patriotic Theme! Drawing July 4th, tickets just $10 each and only 75 will be sold!
Get yours here...
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Ruger AR with American Flag Cerakote
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Drawing July 10th is our Ruger Limited Edition AR 556 MPR with American Flag Cerakote raffle. Tickets just $10, only 150 sold!
Get yours here...
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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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Does your four-legged best friend need some new gear? Would you like to show your support for WWA? Kill two birds with a single stone:
Become a Conservation sponsor via this link for just $200 and have a 1-in-5 chance of winning a $600 dog lover’s package courtesy of SportDOG, Dakota Kennels, and Fromme’s.
Find out more!
Or do you want to hunt at Wisconsin‘s oldest duck club, NeePee Nauk, while reducing WWA's dependence on event fundraising?
Become a sustaining member via this link for a 1-in-15 chance of winning an overnight hunt with Executive Director Bruce Ross in this historic club.
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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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Sponsor Spotlight: Vortex Optics
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WWA has been fortunate to bring Vortex products and information to our members for quite a few years. We love Wisconsin-based organizations, and that love runs deeper for companies with product that earns national, or even international reputations for product quality.
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!
Curious About Wardens' Waterfowl Training? Read on!
By DNR Conservation Warden Meghan Jensen
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Much of a Wisconsin conservation warden’s first year is spent on training. Newly hired wardens attend the basic law enforcement academy, go through field training and attend several specialized trainings specific to enforcement activities. All of these trainings together help prepare new wardens for their role to protect Wisconsin’s natural resources and the people who enjoy them.
Of all of the specialized trainings, waterfowl enforcement training is a favorite among many new wardens.
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DeWitt Wakefield - WI's Earliest Known Carver
By Bruce Urben, President
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DeWitt Wakefield was born in 1849 and has the distinction of being the “first” known Wisconsin decoy carver.
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WWA is not known for its book reviews, but we’re making an exception here for two of our own: Dale Arenz (former Board President and Life Sponsor as our reviewer) and Jeff Nania (former WWA Executive Director as the novelist).
Read Dale's review of Spider Lake, here!
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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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