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2025 National Convention

 | In Person

In July, Ikes from across the country will gather in Green Bay, Wisconsin for the 2025 national convention. The theme of this year’s convention is Defending America’s Great Outdoors: A Promise to Future Generations.

Clean Water Webinar: Advocacy at the Local Level

 | Webinar

Virginia Save Our Streams monitors will share how they've gone beyond monitoring and used their data in their local community - and how you can do the same.   Speakers:…

‘Atlantic couple teaches neighbors to test waterways’

 | Clean Water
Denise and Larry O’Brien, organic farmers and founding members of the Nishnabotna Water Defenders, are teaching their neighbors in Atlantic, Iowa to monitor pollution in waterways with Nitrate Watch. Learn…

A “Salty Intervention”

 | Clean Water
In February 2025, a Salt Watch volunteer visiting a gas station in Leesburg, Virginia stumbled upon a massive oversalting event. Having seen the consequences of such oversalting on waterways firsthand…

Now it’s our turn to fight for these lands

 | News
By Jared Mott, Conservation Director, Izaak Walton League — The trigger broke just before I expected it, exactly how you want it to. A hundred and sixty-eight yards in front…

Meet a Monitor: Aisha and Sasha

 | Clean Water
Sasha and Aisha, sixth-grade students in the Roberto Clemente Math, Science and Computer Science magnet program, conducted an investigation into how proximity to roadways influences water pollution in local lakes.…

‘Iowans across the state asked to conserve water due to dry wells, high nitrate levels’

 | Clean Water
Residents in Central Iowa have been placed under a first-of-its-kind lawn watering ban in response to stress on the water utilities from nitrate pollution in water sources. Data and insight…

Volunteers detect nitrate on the rise in waters nationwide

 | Clean Water
Nitrate Watch volunteers have been busy in 2025 and their data is starting to paint a picture. What does the data show us? Nitrate concentrations are steadily climbing in surface…

Protecting Outdoor America in Communities Across the Country

Over the past 100 years, the Izaak Walton League of America has been an extraordinary champion and defender of the nation’s soil, air, woods, waters and wildlife. Through member-driven bottom-up governance, we’re protecting outdoor America in communities across the country, while working strategically at the national level to win critical conservation battles.

Protecting Outdoor America in Communities Across the Country

Over the past 100 years, the Izaak Walton League of America has been an extraordinary champion and defender of the nation’s soil, air, woods, waters and wildlife. Through member-driven bottom-up governance, we’re protecting outdoor America in communities across the country, while working strategically at the national level to win critical conservation battles.

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