{"id":58074,"date":"2024-10-01T10:50:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisducks.org\/?p=56956"},"modified":"2024-10-01T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:50:11","slug":"wwa-presents-usfws-waterstradt-with-inaugural-partner-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wwa-presents-usfws-waterstradt-with-inaugural-partner-award\/","title":{"rendered":"WWA Presents USFWS&#8217; Waterstradt with Inaugural Partner Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Bruce Ross, Executive Director [email]bross@wisducks.org[\/email]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared in Wisconsin Waterfowl Association\u2019s October, 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisducks.org\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsletter<\/a>\u00a0edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56890\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ross-and-Waterstradt-e1727375457127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56890\" src=\"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ross-and-Waterstradt-e1727375457127-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Ross (left) presents USFWS&#8217; Kurt Waterstradt with inaugural Partner in Conservation Award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kurt Waterstradt of the US Fish and Wildlife Service was the recipient of WWA\u2019s first ever Partner in Conservation Award. Kurt was responsible for initiating and sustaining WWA&#8217;s nearly decade long partnership with USFWS private lands restoration program. \u00a0Together, we received nearly $2.5 million dollars towards restoration and have so far completed nearly 1900 acres of restoration in all corners of the state.<\/p>\n<p>WWA&#8217;s relationship with the USFWS has grown to include a recent $800,000 grant to conduct 1400+ acres of restoration near Necedah. \u00a0That partnership, and WWA\u2019s 40 year impact under the North American Waterfowl Management Plan was recognized when WWA was presented with the USFWS Blue-winged Teal award, an internationally prestigious conservation award.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt is retiring after a 30 year career with the USFWS, where his personal impact has been profound, \u00a0WWA could not have chosen a better recipient for our first ever Partner in Conservation Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bruce Ross, Executive Director [email]bross@wisducks.org[\/email] This article originally appeared in Wisconsin Waterfowl Association\u2019s October, 2024 Newsletter\u00a0edition. Kurt Waterstradt of the US Fish and Wildlife Service was the recipient of WWA\u2019s first ever Partner in Conservation Award. Kurt was responsible for initiating and sustaining WWA&#8217;s nearly decade long partnership with USFWS private lands restoration program&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}