Jared Mott, executive director on Senate approval of copper-sulfide mining in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness watershed: "The fight continues. In 100 years, the Izaak Walton League has never turned its back on the Boundary Waters and we aren’t about to start now. iwla.org/press-statem...

Contact your Senators, urge them to vote NO on H.J. Res. 140 which would undermine protections for Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota. 202-224-3121. Ask the operator to connect you to your Senator/s. A proposed copper sulfide mine upstream will pollute this popular, pristine region

Nice to see @charitywatch.bsky.social give the Izaak Walton League (national office) iwla.org an A rating. www.charitywatch.org/charities/iz...

NitrateWatch.org is a water monitoring program Iowans are using to track pollution of surface and ground water. Elevated nitrate is linked to cancer. Removing nitrate from water to make it safe for drinking is expensive and adds it your water bill. www.thegazette.com/news/environ...

Former #EPA Staff Detail Expanding #Pollution Risks Under Trump @lizagross.bsky.social reports for @insideclimatenews.org #news #environment EJ Today Headlines: sej.org/headlines/list @sejorg.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2702202...

My cover story in Outdoor America looks at the growing threat of zoonotic diseases and the vital roles of wildlife veterinarians and public health professionals who keep an eye on existing and emerging pathogens. iwla.org/it-could-sav...

The world we share with wildlife includes zoonotic diseases. One contribution of veterinary science is an approach called One Health--a way of understanding the close relationships between the health of humans, animals and the environment. From Outdoor America magazine. iwla.org/it-could-sav...

Izaak Walton League's success establishing the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife & Fish Refuge in 1924 created the template for modern environmental movement combining grassroots (100K members), media, lobbyists & partners (General Federation of Women's Clubs) #envhist www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKk...

Advocates and government agencies participate in winter salt awareness event today at Izaak Walton League HQ in Gaithersburg, Md to raise awareness about smart salting and the dangers and damage to waterways and infrastructure from excessive salt on roads and pavement. #SaveOurStreams

2026 Watershed Talks ~ Nitrate Pollution and Ground Zero: Iowa's Water Crisis with Carey Gillam us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

PFAS, phthalates, BPA, flame retardants form a "stew of potentially toxic materials that fill our homes & the food we eat" The 450M metric tons of plastic produced yearly include chemical additives. Yikes. Thank you @naemas.bsky.social & @shannonosaka.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4qbRxcv

Our cover story for our last issue in 2025: Measuring the dollar value of conservation and natural areas. And accounting for the economic cost of degrading the environment. These values must be presented and discussed in decisions about land use, data centers, development. iwla.org/whats-it-wor...

Our cover story for our last issue in 2025: Measuring the dollar value of conservation and natural areas. And accounting for the economic cost of degrading the environment. These values must be presented and discussed in decisions about land use, data centers, development. iwla.org/whats-it-wor...

EPA moves to limit scope of clean water law to reduce amount of wetlands it covers. New 'Waters of the US' rule responds to 2023 Supreme Court decision and is intended to help farmers, ranchers. Critics call it a giveaway to industry. My @AP story apnews.com/article/epa-...

Cost-Conscious Utilities Resist Trump’s Push For Nuclear Revival Brian Dabbs and Francisco A.J. Camacho report for @eenews.bsky.social www.eenews.net/articles/cos...

Illinois lawmakers urged to 'step up' and 'fight like hell' as EPA moves to cut federal protections for wetlands. The state has lost 90% of its original wetlands and currently has no comprehensive safeguards. For @chicagotribune.com:

Our blog on the nitrate crisis for Iowa's drinking water: iwla.org/265000-gallo...

After a fertilizer spill & near-total fish kill, volunteer water pollution monitors in Iowa use Nitrate Watch tests and report data to the Clean Water Hub, an online dashboard managed by Izaak Walton League of America. via Rachel Cramer @IowaPublicRadio www.iowapublicradio.org/environment/...

After a fertilizer spill & near-total fish kill, volunteer water pollution monitors in Iowa use Nitrate Watch tests and report data to the Clean Water Hub, an online dashboard managed by Izaak Walton League of America. via Rachel Cramer @IowaPublicRadio www.iowapublicradio.org/environment/...

Iowa's most populous county invests in statewide water quality sensors as current funding dries up. The Iowa Division of the Izaak Walton League launched a Go Fund Me campaign to help pay for water sensors to track nitrate and other pollutants. www.iowapublicradio.org/environment/...

To help address the crisis of nitrate in drinking water and rising cancer rates in the Iowa, the Izaak Walton League launches a fundraising campaign to restore essential water monitoring in the state iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/09/30/i...

Federal public lands have attracted & inspired generations. The US created the template for saving wild places worldwide. But threats persist from Congress & this administration to privatize the land & prioritize extraction. What's at stake, from Outdoor America magazine. iwla.org/why-we-fight...

Catastrophe brewing for Mississippi River as agencies like US Geological Survey, Fish & Wildlife Service face steep budget cuts under Trump admin. Federal coordination is vital to the River. The agencies keep the river safe and are key to region's economy. www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

Linn County officials are working to level a $20,000 civil penalty against a Minnesota company that drilled dozens of shallow, unpermitted wells at a Cedar Rapids construction site. www.thegazette.com/local-govern...

Iowans across the state asked to conserve water due to dry wells, high nitrate levels which are measured by several organizations including the Izaak Walton League and its Nitrate Watch community science program that tests local waterways. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/06/17/i...

Last month we stopped a dangerous House effort to allow sale of a half million acres of public land in the West—land that belongs to us all. Now it's back resurfaced in the Senate and it’s worse, mandating disposal of up to 3 million acres of public lands. Help us stop it! iwla.org/conservation...

Minnesota Public Radio interviews leaders of the Green Crew, a growing youth-led organization started by a Minnesota chapter of the Izaak Walton League. The New York Times recently profiled the Crew and its efforts to tackle climate change. www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

The Senate must remove the anti-conservation provisions in the budget package. iwla.org/league-urges...

TODAY urge Congress to oppose provisions in the House budget reconciliation bill to sell up to 500,000 acres of public land, approve drilling that would pollute the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, gut clean energy incentives & weaken NEPA – the Bill of Rights for the environment iwla.org/conservation...

Featured in the @nytimes.com today, Minnesota youth tackle climate change through the Green Crew, a youth-led environmental program that leverages volunteer action developed several years ago as a part of the Izaak Walton League and Scouts. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...

Great summary by Sen Tina @smith.senate.gov: GOP in Congress is trying to give a foreign conglomerate permission to build a "copper-nickel sulfide mine right on the doorstep of the Boundary Waters watershed" & irreversibly pollute wilderness. @jburcum.bsky.social www.startribune.com/burcum-staub...

NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy www.science.org/content/arti...

We should be thinking smarter about our drinking water: EPA needs to update the standards for nitrate in drinking water. Op-ed from the Izaak Walton League in Cedar Rapids gazette lays out the key issues www.thegazette.com/guest-column...

Iowa water quality monitors, many of whom are volunteers, expect increased nitrate concentrations this month as part of the “spring flush,” when April showers wash fertilizer and other nutrients into the waterways, Cami Koons reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/11/c...

Volunteer scientists use Izaak Walton League's Nitrate Watch program to monitor pollution in Iowa’s waterways iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/11/c...

Congress: Don't sell future generations short by selling off our public lands to pay for a tax package! It won’t significantly decrease the deficit & will only exacerbate issues like wildfire, invasive species, preserving sources of drinking clean water. Full statement: www.iwla.org/publications...

The Trump administration is studying selling 625 square miles of federal land within 10 miles of cities with a population of 5,000 or more. It's the new administration's answer to the the housing crisis. (Sorry... paywall) news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...

America’s parks created the template for saving natural areas worldwide. My cover story in Outdoor America looks at the benefits these places provide for people, wildlife & the planet & the threats confronting public lands today: Let's keep public lands in public hands. www.iwla.org/publications...

New EPA review announced today will fail to protect our waterways because the regs will adhere to the dangerous misinterpretation of the Clean Water Act and faulty definition of Waters of the USA established by the Supreme Court in Sackett v EPA in 2023. Full statement: www.iwla.org/publications...

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Rage Against the Miocene. (I love the Miocene, but we're not prepared to live in it!)

Trump's March 1 exec order to increase logging on our PUBLIC lands to generate energy(!) + lumber: “Our inability to fully exploit our domestic timber supply has…degraded fish and wildlife habitats”? The EO would bulldoze Endangered Species Act & NEPA safeguards www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Check out the overview summary for our “2025 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy” special report, plus look back at three dozen-plus stories gathered for our ninth annual guide. www.sej.org/publications...

SHARE WITH YOUR NETWORKS: Applications are open for the 9th year of the NASW Diversity Summer Fellowship. Awards of $3,000 available for students and early-career science communicators undertaking summer internships. Learn more and apply by April 1: www.nasw.org/2025Div...

Tackling chloride pollution: When ice melts, road salt lingers. Izaak Walton League & partners nationwide promote smarter ice management. Apply more effectively. And cover these big piles that leach corrosive salt into streams & drinking water pipes which can leach lead www.iwla.org/publications...

This week the #SEJSpotlight is on Jennifer Grayson, a Los Angeles-based journalist and author focusing on the environment, food systems and public health. Learn more and check out her work: www.sej.org/sejspotlight....

Thousands participated in Winter Salt Awareness Week to discuss the dangers of & solutions to road salt pollution. Each year, between 10 & 20 million tons is applied to paved surfaces which permanently pollutes fresh water as it washes off into streams and drinking water www.iwla.org/publications...

Nature and the great outdoors is an amazing classroom. Forest preschools, where students spend virtually all their time outside, have sprouted up across the US and Europe in recent years. Read the feature from Outdoor America. www.iwla.org/publications...

Root River Current magazine in SE Minnesota profiles Izaak Walton League water quality & stream monitoring. Aquatic guardianship includes monitoring nitrate and evaluating macroinvertebrate populations & reporting results to www.cleanwaterhub.org run by iwla.org. rootrivercurrent.org/mill-creek-w...