In 2024, the Izaak Walton League celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first-born “Child of the League” – the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. Championed by Will Dilg, the League’s first president, the Refuge saved 261 miles of the Mississippi River’s floodplain wetlands between Wabasha, Minnesota and the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa. So, what about the next 100 years? If Will Dilg were alive today, what would he be rallying people for and railing against? How would he redefine the world as we know it?