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Wapashaw Chapter Updates
Keep up with our neighbors to the north! Read more about projects and programs hosted by the Wapashaw Chapter of the IWLA in Wabasha, MN…
Bluffs2Backwaters: Celebrating Our Waters and the Community That Cares for Them
The second annual Bluffs2Backwaters was a wonderful reminder of what happens when a community comes together around something we all have a stake in protecting: our water and natural resources…
We Are the Ikes
The Izaak Walton League of America holds a deeply personal relationship with the nation's waters and outdoors, engaging in paddling, youth fishing events, and critical conversations about our waters, wetlands, water quality, agriculture, and of course the river and its wing dams, sedimentation, and navigation…
Upper Mississippi River Chapter IWLA Update
Our Upper Mississippi River chapter’s collaboration with a UW-La Crosse Recreation Management class to develop QR-code-based environmental interpretation materials for Hintgen Island (near La Crosse) is drawing to a close…
Ikes, NGO’s, and the River: A New Era of Citizen Engagement (Spring 2026)
For decades, the direction of river management—the debate over which ecological needs should be prioritized and where specific infrastructure projects should be situated—has been the near-exclusive domain of Federal and State agencies…
Boundary Waters Update May, 2026— Protections put in place in 2023 revoked by U.S. Congress & President Trump
In January, 2023, Deb Haaland, then Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, signed Public Land Order 7917, putting federal lands in the Boundary Waters watershed off-limits to federal mineral leasing (and thus mining) for 20 years…