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2025 National Convention

 | In Person

In July, Ikes from across the country will gather in Green Bay, Wisconsin for the 2025 national convention. The theme of this year’s convention is Defending America’s Great Outdoors: A Promise to Future Generations.

Clean Water Webinar: Advocacy at the Local Level

 | Webinar

Virginia Save Our Streams monitors will share how they've gone beyond monitoring and used their data in their local community - and how you can do the same.   Speakers:…

Meet a Monitor: Alyvia

 | Clean Water
Alyvia (Liv) is an aspiring Egyptologist and a 6th grader at St Michael-St. Clement School in Maryland. In April 2025, Liv participated in her school’s science fair incorporating Salt Watch…

‘A salt crisis is looming for U.S. rivers’

 | Clean Water
Salt Watch staff and partners interviewed with reporter Kasha Patel from The Washington Post to discuss regional and nationwide chloride testing results and issues related to road salt pollution. One…

League staff featured in NPR article on how government and non-profit agencies assess stream health in Virginia

 | Clean Water
The League’s Samantha Puckett and Matthew Kierce led a Virginia Save Our Streams benthic macroinvertebrate monitoring demonstration at the Choose Clean Water Conference in May 2025. They are featured in…

A dust storm hit close to home. Congress is behind on the bill that could help.

 | Agriculture
Kate Hansen As the League’s Agriculture Program Director, I think about soil more than the average person. It has never felt more personal than last month, when my spouse and…

Federal judge rules in favor of wetlands, Conservation Compliance

 | Agriculture
In a win for conservation, water quality and wildlife across the country, on May 29, a federal judge ruled in favor of wetland protections on agricultural lands. American taxpayers fund…

Responding to an Acute Pollution Event

 | Clean Water
On April 3, 2025, a tanker truck carrying gasoline and diesel fuel crashed into a bridge in Great Falls, Virginia. As a result, around 2,600 gallons of fuel spilled onto…

Protecting Outdoor America in Communities Across the Country

Over the past 100 years, the Izaak Walton League of America has been an extraordinary champion and defender of the nation’s soil, air, woods, waters and wildlife. Through member-driven bottom-up governance, we’re protecting outdoor America in communities across the country, while working strategically at the national level to win critical conservation battles.

Protecting Outdoor America in Communities Across the Country

Over the past 100 years, the Izaak Walton League of America has been an extraordinary champion and defender of the nation’s soil, air, woods, waters and wildlife. Through member-driven bottom-up governance, we’re protecting outdoor America in communities across the country, while working strategically at the national level to win critical conservation battles.

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