Tag: environment

• Press Release: Great Lakes Wildlife Alliance Supports Petition to Regulate Neonicotinoid Insecticides

  

  Neonicotinoids are systemic insecticides used in agriculture, landscaping, and home gardening to control pests. We are deeply concerned about the harmful effects of neonicotinoids on the environment and wildlife. Despite these risks, the EPA registered neonicotinoids without first requiring data on their efficacy.

  Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf

  January 4, 2024

  PRESS RELEASES

  agriculture, aphids, beetles, birds, bumblebees, butterflies, conservation, contaminate, control, dangerous, ecosystem, environment, fish, gardening, great lakes, honey bees, insecticide, insects, landscaping, Neonicotinoid, pest, pests, petition, regulation, toxic, wildlife, wisconsin

• NOVEMBER 2023 NEWSLETTER

  

  A note from our Executive Director, update on the Wisconsin wolf management plan, shout out to a wonderful troop of Girl Scouts, upcoming events on our new Advocacy Calendar, November Fireside Chats and a HUGE announcement for this year’s Giving Tuesday!

  Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf

  November 8, 2023

  NEWSLETTERS

  act, conservation, DNR, endangered, environment, fireside, girl scouts, great lakes, hunting, management, NRB, plan, shorewood elementary, species, USFWS, wildlife, wisconsin, wolf, wolves

• WI Wolf Management Plan and Fall Hunt Comment Period

  

  Friends, we have another opportunity to not only stop the fall wolf hunt, but to weigh in on the future of wolf management in Wisconsin. This is a critical action, and probably the most important thing you will do in advocating for wolves in 2021. PLEASE JOIN OUR NEXT FIRESIDE CHAT ON THUSRDAY, APRIL 22…

  Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf

  April 16, 2021

  ACTION ALERTS

  advocacy, conservation, DNR, environment, fireside chat, justice, management, meeting, natural resources board, NRB, organization, TRUMP, WCC, wildlife, wisconsin, Wisconsin conservation congress, Wolf Harvest Committee, wolf hunt, wolves

• ANNOUNCING WILDLIFE DAY AT THE FARM!

  

  An event designed to educate and motivate wildlife and wilderness lovers on important wildlife-related issues and to encourage representatives hear about coexistence and address our need on how to best advocate for wildlife in Wisconsin…please join us !

  Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf

  June 14, 2019

  NEWSLETTERS

  advocacy, altoona, apple, apples, bears, birds, black river falls, blueberries, blueberry, cain’s orchard, day, eau claire, elk, environment, event, family, farmers, farming, farms, hixton, jackson county, marshfield, nature, neillsville, nekoosa, picking, plants, preservation, recreation, sparta, state forest, sustainable, tomah, wi, wildlife, wisconsin, wisconsin rapids, wolves

• PRESS RELEASE: Dane County WI Approves Wildlife Killing Contest Ban Resolution, Urging Legislature, DNR and Governor to Action

  

  Last night, the Dane County Board of Supervisors, in a unanimous vote, passed Resolution 502, urging the Wisconsin Legislature to develop and support changes to statutes to ban any and all future wildlife killing contests.

  Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf

  March 8, 2019

  PRESS RELEASES

  board, cattle, contest, coyote, dane county, DNR, environment, hound, hounding, Humane Society, hunt, kill, killing contest, livestock, Melissa Smith, Natural Resources, predator, press release, preston cole, project coyote, Randy Jurewicz, resolution, stop the madness, the killing games, tony evers, UW Madison, wildlife, wisconsin

• Smell the Roses: Why Nature Is Good for Recovery

  

  Researchers have been studying the effect of nature on people’s mental well-being for decades, and the results show that spending time in natural environments can be beneficial to people in recovery from substance abuse disorders.

  BrittRic

  April 26, 2018

  GUEST BLOGS

  Attention Restoration Theory, concentration, depression, environment, meditation, mental health, nature, outdoors, Rachel Kaplan, recovery, reduce stress, relapse, relaxation, sense of purpose, Stephen Kaplan, stress, willpower

• ANNOUNCEMENT: Wildlife Day 2018!

  

  Join us in solidarity with Michigan and Minnesota to meet with your state lawmakers and discuss how wolves are an essential balance to our ecosystem. All attendees will receive a FREE original art Wildlife Day t-shirt!

  BrittRic

  January 23, 2018

  NEWSLETTERS

  2018, activism, advocate, April, bears, campaign, capitol, chronic wasting disease, CWD, deer, ecosystem, endangered, environment, farmers, Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf, great lakes, HSUS, Humane Society, Lansing, lawmakers, legislators, Madison, Michigan, minnesota, press release, species, state, tribes, wildlife, Wildlife Day, wisconsin, wolf, wolves

• Sample Letter to Senator Tammy Baldwin

  

  Right now, hunting, trapping and livestock groups are actively organizing to have Great Lakes wolves stripped of their endangered status without judicial review as soon as next month. This bill is co-sponsored by Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) making the legislation “bi-partisan”. Please contact her TODAY to express your opposition. Here’s how….

  BrittRic

  August 21, 2017

  ACTION ALERTS

  bear hounds, co-sponsor, dogs, endangered, Endangered Species, environment, environmental, ESA, farmers, great lakes, grey wolves, HELP for Wildlife Act, hounders, hounds, hunting, judicial review, letter, livestock, protections, Ron Johnson, S. 1514, sample, Senator, Tammy Baldwin, wisconsin, wolf, wolf hunt, wolves

• Guest Blog: A Citizen Lobbying Effort to Defend the Endangered Species Act in DC

  

  June 30, 2017 was an eye-opening day into constituent democracy for me. Gary John Feest and I went to Washington D.C. in a Citizen Lobbying effort to defend the Endangered Species Act.

  BrittRic

  July 25, 2017

  GUEST BLOGS

  citizen lobbying, Clean Water Act, congress, Congressman, conservation, endangered species act, Endangered Species Coalition, environment, ESA, Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf, great lakes, guest blog, Hunting Heritage, Kerry Beheler, minnesota, modernization, protections, Ron Johnson, Senate, Senator, Tammy Baldwin, Washington DC, wildlife, wisconsin, wolf, wyoming

• Earth Day Sentiments

  

  Why do environmentalists still have to fight so hard to stop our own government and businesses from killing our wildlife, clear-cutting our forests, mining our mountains and poising the oceans, air, land and water we all rely on to survive?

  BrittRic

  April 22, 2017

  GUEST BLOGS

  air, aldo leopold, Britt Ricci, conservation, earth, Earth Day, Earth Day Everyday, environment, environmentalist, Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf, Gaylord Nelson, government, john muir, land, nature, oceans, planet, Rachel Carson, save, trees, water, wildlife, wisconsin