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Wetland Restorations on Private Lands?

2 weeks ago

This article appeared in the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s July 2025 Newsletter edition. In addition to WWA’s rapidly growing restoration work on state and federal lands that we can all utilize,…

Spring Waterfowl Counts and More

Current News

2 weeks ago

By Bruce Ross, Executive Director – bross@wisducks.org This article appeared in the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s July 2025 Newsletter edition. State game bird biologist Taylor Finger hosted the summer meeting of the…

Solving a Jackson Marsh Hydrological Mystery

Current News, Public Lands

2 weeks ago

By Bruce Ross, Executive Director – bross@wisducks.org This article appeared in the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s July 2025 Newsletter edition. Only 25 miles northwest of metropolitan Milwaukee lies the Jackson Marsh State…

Better Habitat. Better Hunts.

Public Lands

2 months ago

New public land projects at Ertmer GHRA and White River Marsh This article appeared in the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s May 2025 Newsletter edition. White River Ditch pre-construction As duck hunters, we…

WWA Donates Towards Eagle Scout’s Nesting Project

Nesting Structures

2 months ago

WWA was proud to support Oconomowoc High School’s Cody Haar in his local Eagle Scout project earlier this year. Cody recently sent us the following report on the successful completion…

WWA Habitat Work 2.0

Conservation

2 months ago

This article appeared in the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s May 2025 Newsletter edition. Wisconsin Waterfowl Association has a long history of habitat work in Wisconsin. For over 40 years, habitat has been one…

Uncertainty Surrounds Habitat Grants

Current News

4 months ago

By Bruce Ross, Executive Director [email]bross@wisducks.org[/email] This article appeared in Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s March, 2025 Newsletter edition. You’d have to be a hermit to have missed how DOGE activities are creating…

White River Fishery Area: WWA Completes Third Public Lands Project

Public Lands

4 months ago

By Anna Rzchowski, Public Lands Ecologist – [email]arzchowski@wisducks.org[/email] This article appeared in Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s March, 2025 Newsletter edition. Pre restoration: this ditched spring drains to Lunch Creek. Last month WWA…

It’s Wood Duck Box Maintenance Season!

Nesting Structures

4 months ago

By B.J. Grassmann, a citizen conservationist and Habitat Committee Chair This article appeared in Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s March, 2025 Newsletter edition. Whether you are maintaining a few wood duck boxes you…

Green Bay Chapter Maintains Abrams Property Houses

Abrams Property, Nesting Structures

4 months ago

This article appeared in Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s March, 2025 Newsletter edition. It’s not over ’til the paperwork is done! WWA’s Green Bay Chapter spent Saturday, February 22nd at the organization’s Abrams…

Wood Duck Box Placement and Maintenance

Nesting Structures

5 months ago

By Bruce Urben, President This article originally appeared in Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s February, 2021 Volunteer Newsletter edition and was re-released in our February 2025 Newsletter. Wood ducks are Wisconsin’s most…

Fire As a Tool for Wetland Management

Private Lands

5 months ago

By Anna Rzchowski, Public Lands Ecologist – arzchowski@wisducks.org This article originally appeared in Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s February, 2025 Newsletter edition. 1 A prescribed fire burns through hybrid cattail, removing thatch to both…