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            For donations via mail or fax, please download and fill out This Form with your donation. A reciept will be available to you upon request. You may also be contacted by a MWHI representative about your donation.

          At MWHI, our sponsors are very important to us. We would like to thank you all for your continued support and we would like you to see what you have allowed us to accomplish. We have won multiple awards, as an organization, and we have also made progress in many other areas. As you'll see below, we have a long list of achievments that we are proud of. Many of these items take hundreds of man-hours to plan, prepare and complete, and that is something that we couldn't do without your support. If you are a member or just a concerned citizen, we hope you will support our mission and make waterfowl hunting something that our children can inherit.
 

• Awards
  
  
  
• President's Award
  National Rifle Association
   
• Most Outstanding Club Award
  Illinois Wildlife Federation
   
• Best Conservation Award
  National Wildlife Federation
   
• Golden Mallard Award
  Arkansas Wildlife Federation
   
• Golden Canvasback Award
  Alton - Wood River Sportsmen Club
   
• Outstanding Sportsmen Club Award
  Alton - Wood River Sportsmen Club
   
• Outstanding Conservation Organization
  As voted by the Illinois House of Representatives
   
• Outstanding Volunteer Award
  Illinois Department of Natural Resources
   
• 25 year Bronze Sponsor
  Ducks Unlimited
   
• Sportsman Award
  Winchester Corporation
   
• Letter of Recognition
  Governor, State of Illinois
   
• Letter of Merit
  Illinois State Senate
   
• Conservationist of the Year 2002
  Tri City Ducks Unlimited Chapter
   
• Award for $1,000,000 Raised
  MWHI - Ducks Unlimited Chapter
   
• National Conservation to Private Wetlands Sector Regional Award
  United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

• Accomplishments
  
  
  
• Recent
   
• Helped avert IDNR budget cuts at Regional Offices.
   
• Prevented IDNR closures of check stations.
   
• Assisted in seeing the Dabb's Road project come to fruition.
   
• Initiated Diamond/Godar Phase 2 Refuge Project.
   
• Raised over $200,000 for the Godar Project.
   
• Lobbied to reinstate the Ag lease programs for the waterfowl areas.
   
• Sponsored high school youth trap and shooting teams.
   
• Sponsored youths to attend the IFOR Youth Camp at Carlyle Lake.
   
• Initiated duck blind inspections, for safety purposes, at Anderson Lake at Sanganois.
   
• Appropriated money for 2 new concrete boat ramps and Sanganois.
   
• Purchased over 1,000 lbs. of millet for the USFWS Twin Rivers Refuge at Batchtown and Brussels.
   
• Worked hard to initiate the West Point project at Anderson Lake.
   
• Co-hosted with IDNR a dinner for the UMRCC Technical Session at Pere Marquette.
   
• Held area committee meetings for all blind builders in public hunting areas in the MRA and Sanganois.
   
• Hosted and co-sponsored Two Rivers sanctioned duck calling contest at Nilo Farms.
   
• Had MWHI representatives attend Rend Lake and Carlyle Lake Task Force meetings.
   
• Were represented at the Winchester World Calling Championship at National Hunting and Fishing Day in Southern Illinois.
   
• Actively participated in the Illinois Waterfowl Ad Hoc Committee meetings.
   
• Assisted in writing the legislation for the Hunter Heritage Act.
   
• Hosted Youth Hunt event, family picnic, annual banquet, golf tournament, wild game feed, Nilo event, and the Alton-Wood River Sportsfest.
   
• Raised $600 for Back Stoppers to help victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
   
• Donated wood duck nest boxes to East Central College in Union, Mo.
   
• Attended the Friends of Refuge appreciation dinner.
   
• Are proud sponsors of the WLFA "Protect What's Right Program".
   
• Legislative
   
• Introduced original legislation to get the "Heavy Equipment" bill. Over one million dollars of heavy equipment was purchased.
   
• Sponsored Senate Bill 567 in Illinois, which is a hunter harassment bill that protects hunters from being harassed in the field.
   
• State Senator Frank Watson worked exclusively with MWHI to create and sponsor Illinois Senate Bill 163, which amends the Department of Natural Resources Act. It provides that the Department shall recognize, preserve, and promote recreational hunting and trapping by providing opportunities to hunt and trap in Illinois.
   
• Supports legislative efforts by the Illinois State Rifle Association to introduce and pass a "Concealed Carry" bill and a "Preemption" law.
   
• Worked with Congressman Dick Durbin to appropriate 1.5 million dollars for the Hillside Sediment Retention Components for Swan Lake and Batchtown EMP projects.
   
• Historic
   
• Donated over 6,000 man-hours of work, de-watering, seeding millet and re-pumping thousands of acres of prime waterfowl habitat.
   
• Procured over $7,400 of Rodeo, an EPA approved encroachment control herbicide for wetland use.
   
• Donated over $12,000 for farm machinery for the Mark Twain National Wildlife Refuge and the IDNR Mississippi River Area.
   
• Maintained an excellent working relationship with the IDNR to improve hunting and protect the waterfowl resource and its habitat.
   
• Helped plan and pursue a 200-acre waterfowl rest area at Horseshoe Lake, Granite City.
   
• Secured funding for over $20 million of habitat improvements and enhancement projects (EMP) for Cuivre Island, Ellis Island, Stump Lake, Swan Lake, Batchtown, and Calhoun Point, by coordinating activities with the IDNR, USFWS, St. Louis District COE and Congress.
   
• Donated $6,700 and in-kind goods as a partner in the Red's Landing 500-acre Green Tree Reservoir project.
   
• Assured that Fuller Lake was included in the Swan Lake EMP Habitat Enhancement Project.
   
• Secured State Duck Stamp funds for the Godar Refuge project.
   
• Worked with IDNR and DU to secure funding for the 22-acre Dabb's Road wetland enhancement project at Stump Lake.
   
• Worked with the Carlyle Lake Coalition and the Carlyle Lake Waterfowlers, IDNR, and the St. Louis District COE to improve hunting and habitat conditions at Carlyle Lake.
   
• Responsible for year-round river access at the Batchtown Refuge.
   
• Joined or affiliated with the NRA of Illinois, The Wildlife Legislative Fund of America, Institute for Legislative Action, Wildlife Conservation Fund of America, Illinois Waterfowlers Alliance, Illinois Federation for Outdoor Resources, the Alton-Wood? River Sportsmen Club, and the Illinois Conservation Foundation.
   
• Sponsored Ducks Unlimited for the past 30 years. Raised over $1,000,000 for DU and helped establish DU chapters in surrounding areas. Paid for MWHI sponsored DU project in Manitoba, Canada, called the "Poplar Hill Project".
   
• Created "Partners for Wetlands", and action committee dedicated to improving habitat conditions on the Upper Mississippi River by "matching words with actions".
   
• Produced and installed over 5,000 wood duck nest boxes, mallard nest baskets and floating goose nests.
   

Links
Below, you will find a list of our link sponsors. These groups have kindly traded links with us so that we may better spread the word to duck hunters throughout the Mississippi Valley Flyway. Please visit their sites and see what they have to offer!



Great Lakes Sport Fishing Council
Our purpose and mission is to inform and educate about natural resource conservation, recreation and enhancement. The Great Lakes Sport Fishing Council endeavors to promote, protect and conserve our aquatic resources; manage against over-harvesting at the commercial and recreational level; clean air and clean water; prevent the spread of invasive species, promote safe boating practices; and represent the sport fishing community before divisions of government.

Larry's Fishing Hole of Central Illinois
A complete Central-Illinois fishing website with current lake reports, tips & articles, event dates, product reviews, classifieds, tournament dates from across the state, and more!

Illinois Federation For Outdoor Resources
To unite all outdoor resource user groups and conservationists (ex. hunters, fishermen, trappers, trail riders, etc.), dedicated to preserving, restoring and developing the State's natural resources, and to provide a professional liaison to the Illinois Legislature and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), to protect sportmen's rights and recreational opportunities; and to work together to ensure long-term, adequate dedicated funding for, and professional management of, the IDNR.

Mississippi Valley Duck Hunters Association
A non-profit association of, by and for duck hunters.

The Mississippi Duckmen
The home of the 1:30 Hole Duck Club!