Wisconsin Waterfowl Conservation: 87% Wetland
Wisconsin Waterfowl Conservation: 87% Wetland. Wisconsin Waterfowl Association exec director Brad Heidel on habitat restoration, women hunter recruitment, and the sandhill crane hunt bill that came one vote { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/retay_usa#person", "name": "Retay USA", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/retay_usa", "description": "Retay USA is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/4c10c0ad-55e2-4222-ae1a-290454000930.jpg" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/wisconsin-waterfowl-association-conservation-crane-hunt#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/wisconsin-waterfowl-association-conservation-crane-hunt" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/wisconsin-waterfowl-association-conservation-crane-hunt", "headline": "Wisconsin Waterfowl Conservation: 87% Wetland", "name": "Wisconsin Waterfowl Conservation: 87% Wetland", "description": "Wisconsin Waterfowl Association exec director Brad Heidel on habitat restoration, women hunter recruitment, and the sandhill crane hunt bill that came one vote", "articleSection": "Hunting", "articleBody": "Wisconsin waterfowl conservation runs on a simple mandate at the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association (WWA): build Wisconsin ducks in Wisconsin for Wisconsin duck hunters. On Episode #22 of the Retay Nation podcast, WWA executive director Brad Heidel laid out how his organization now drives the overwhelming majority of the state's habitat work — and why the fight for hunting heritage is being waged as much in the state capitol as it is in the marsh. Heidel, a longtime industry marketer who \"retired,\" got bored after turkey season, and took the WWA job when the organization called, frames the group's work around three pillars: wetland restoration, hunter recruitment, and legislative advocacy. Each pillar came with hard numbers — including a figure pulled straight off the Wisconsin DNR's own dashboard. The headline stat is the one Heidel says will \"jack you up\": according to the state's wetlands dashboard, the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association is responsible for 87% of all wetland restoration in Wisconsin for 2023, 2024, and 2025. Key Takeaways WWA accounts for 87% of all wetland restoration in Wisconsin (2023–2025) per the state DNR dashboard, driven by a team of \"three and a half\" ecologists. Roughly 80% of property used by waterfowl in the state is private land — WWA's motto is \"private land for public ducks.\" Wisconsin is the #3 waterfowl-hunting state in the na…