Get Involved with the Centennial and Your Refuge!
It took the support of hundreds of thousands of people to create this fantastic Refuge and it takes a LOT of support and effort to preserve what the Refuge founders created 100 years ago. The Refuge needs your help!
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Join a Refuge "Friends" group:
- Friends of Refuge Headwaters - Winona area ( FriendsOfTheRefugeHeadwaters.org)
- Friends of Trempealeau Refuge
- Friends of the Refuge Mississippi River Pools 7 & 8 (www.for78.org )
- Friends of Pool 9 (www.FriendsOfPool9.org)
- Stewards of the Upper Mississippi River Refuge - Savanna area (StewardsUMRR.org)
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Join a conservation group or Land Trust that is involved with the River and Refuge:
- Brice Prairie Conservation Association
- Mississippi Valley Conservancy
- The Nature Conservancy
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National Audubon Society, with chapters along the Refuge:
- Coulee Audubon (La Crosse Area)
- Dubuque Audubon Society
- Quad City Audubon Society
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Izaak Walton League of America and subdivisions:
- Minnesota Division
- Wapasha Chapter (Wabasha)
- Will Dilg Chapter, Winona
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Help Clean up the River!
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Make your voice heard at public hearings and public comment about Refuge and River regulations with state and Federal natural resource agencies. It is your refuge and your voice matters!
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But most of all, just get out on the River! Find your own ways to help. And get young people involved wherever you can!
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And remember Will Dilg and the Refuge Founders 100 years ago: " A National Preserve Along The Great Upper River Is Worth A Fight"
