Wisconsin Wildlife Federation

Our Mission

The Wisconsin Wildlife Federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.

The Federation’s education focus is on the protection of fish and wildlife and their habitat and in the teaching of skills including hunting, fishing, trapping and other outdoor recreational pursuits. Our efforts are largely focused on youth education. We help the MacKenzie Environmental Center in Poynette, grant scholarships for future resource professionals at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, provide wildlife educational trunks to schools for K-12 education, send kids to summer conservation camps, provide funding for youth outdoor skill days and support the Green School Network Field Corps.  We also are very active in promoting strong conservation policies before the Wisconsin Legislature, the Department of Natural Resources and the US Congress. The prime areas of conservation policy that we focus on are the protection of fish and wildlife habitat, the protection of public access to lands and water for outdoor recreation, assuring the right to hunt, fish and trap and the pursuit of other outdoor recreational activities and the furtherance of conservation education with an emphasis on youth education. We strongly believe that conservation policies should be scientifically, professionally and factually based, not politically based.