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By Bruce Ross, Executive Director – (262) 224-4949 or bruceross@wi.rr.com

This article originally appeared in a March 19, 2020 Special Edition Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Newsletter to our chapter leaders.

You have seen all sorts of messages and guidance and warnings and precautions that are the result of the fast-breaking CoVid-19 virus sweeping the nation. It kinda sucks the oxygen right out of the room, doesn’t it? Makes it hard to talk about anything else – so I won’t try. This special edition of the volunteer newsletter – sent only to chapter leaders and directors – focuses mostly on how WWA is reacting to this existential threat.

First, we expect and encourage you to take care of your self, your family, and your community through this crisis. Staying socially distanced, putting food on the table, coping with new work realities, and dealing with a dramatically changed daily life is everyone’s first orders of business. We understand that WWA takes a distant back seat to these extraordinary challenges. If there is some way you see for us to play a helpful role, let us know.

So we appreciate your thoughts may be appropriately elsewhere right now. At the same time, I hope you understand that your WWA leadership team has been engaged in understanding, considering, and planning for WWA impacts this past week. We want to share that early thinking with you now so you know we are keeping eye out for the organization and missions that you’ve made such a big part of your life before this moment in time.

This newsletter looks at these issues through the WWA lens. And it adopts an uncompromising view of the challenges your WWA faces, in order to begin what I call “an open, adult conversation” with you, the most committed volunteers of WWA.

To start, we are closely monitoring the news and health advisories and are committed to complying with them. We will adjust our operations accordingly. The following articles touch on some of our current thinking in this fast-changing environment.

Among other topics, there are short articles on:

Parts of this newsletter will be shared with our broader membership base shortly, and also through our social media outlets.

We know this outbreak will challenge each of us, our communities, and our organization. But we also know this is an opportunity to find new ways to strengthen WWA to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. I’m very optimistic!  Read on to find out why.