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Location: Menasha, WI | Just wanted to bring to your attention that a new group is forming to to protect and improve the Wolf River. The Wolf River Conservation Alliance's first meeting, to include approval of its first board of directors, officers and bylaws, is set for 7 p.m. April 30 at the River Rail Bar, Shiocton.
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A good number of both kinds of men and women will be gathering at Mosquito Hill Nature Center on March 24 to explore how an array of conservation and environmental groups can work together to protect and improve the Wolf River. The "conservation forum" is the first project of the Wolf River Conservation Alliance.
Speakers include Kamke on the state of the walleye population, DNR basin team supervisor Ron Bruch on sturgeon and a keynote by former DNR secretary George Meyer, now executive director of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation.
Lectures aside, the main point of the day is for people who care about the Wolf River and its critters to interact and find common ground from which to support each other's work.
Groups involved in the Alliance include Shadows on the Wolf, the Waupaca County Natural Resources Foundation, Walleyes for Tomorrow, Sturgeon for Tomorrow, Trout Unlimited, the Wolf River Sturgeon Trail, New London Fish and Game Club, Ducks Unlimited, Friends of Navarino Nature Center, Friends of Mosquito Hill, Wild Ones Natural Landscapes, Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, Lake Poygan Sportsmen's Club, Mukwa Wildlife Area Advisory Committee, Pheasants Forever, Challenge the Outdoors, Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust, Outagamie Conservation Club, Winnebago Conservation Club, Wisconsin Trappers Association, Wisconsin Bowhunters Association, Citizen's Natural Resources Association of Wisconsin and Fox Cities Greenways.
"The Wolf River is a really important resource for a lot of groups, and we can do a lot more to protect it by working together," said Rick Herzfeldt of Shawano, co-chair of the Alliance with Close and a volunteer at Navarino Nature Center. "This is not an alliance put together to fight one single threat to the river," he said, but rather "to address multiple issues over a long period of time."
One of the reasons for the groups coming together was difficulty they were having getting permits from the DNR for doing these habitat projects, Close said.
The idea of the Alliance came out of Shadows on the Wolf more than two years ago as part of its work on the Wolf River Basin Partnership. The Alliance worked through the Waupaca County Natural Resources Foundation to attain a state river-planning grant to help in its organization, assisted by Leslie Taylor of LT Associates, Appleton.
Incorporation papers were recently approved and submitted to the state. The Alliance's first meeting, to include approval of its first board of directors, officers and bylaws, is set for 7 p.m. April 30 at the River Rail Bar, Shiocton.
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