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Ten Ways to Save Stewardship

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Contact your lawmakers today and tell them to support the Governor’s proposal to renew and strengthen the Stewardship Fund. Personal, heartfelt letters are best. more »

Copy the Conference Committee on letters to your legislators. This powerful committee will craft the version of the state budget that the full Legislature will consider.

Send a letter to the editor or an op-ed to your newspaper in favor of Stewardship. more »

Go outside!  Visit Stewardship protected properties in your area.  more »

Join our email listserv to receive updates and alerts on Stewardship. more »

Spread the word among your friends, neighbors and colleagues about what Stewardship has done for them and enlist their support.

Meet with your legislators, shake their hands and tell them how much Stewardship matters. 

Get on record - Have the board of your organization adopt a resolution supporting Stewardship reauthorization.  more »

Send Gathering Waters copies of your letters, clippings from local papers, and keep us up-to-date on your activities on behalf of Stewardship.

Donate to Gathering Waters - Help support our work to reauthorize the Stewardship Fund. more » 

Questions? Contact our Stewardship Campaign Director Vicki Elkin to help you set up meetings with legislators, organize mailings, review letters, etc. at 608-441-8819 or stewardship [at] gatheringwaters.org.

What do I say?

Fund the Stewardship program at $105 million a year to keep pace with skyrocketing land values and inflation.

Extend Stewardship through 2020.

Provide $30 million a year in grants to communities and non-profits who match state dollars with local funds and private contributions.

Protect Wisconsin’s pristine waters and priceless natural lands for our children and grandchildren.

 

"The Stewardship fund has fulfilled its promise to the people of Wisconsin by preserving thousands of acres for use by sportsmen, conservationists and nature enthusiasts alike.  The time, however, has come where we must devise a new program and strategy to ensure Wisconsin enters the 21st century as America's environmental leader."
– Governor Tommy Thompson on Stewardship Reauthorization in 1998

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