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WFA Picnic 2019
Mark your calendars for Saturday, August 3rd for the Wisconsin Falconers Summer Picnic! Rain or shine! It will be held at Mike Barlow’s home by Stevens Point WI from 12pm – 3pm. Birds and good dogs welcome. Free admission! The WFA will be providing grilled hamburgers and hotdogs as well as chips, soda, bottled water, paper plates and plastic utensils. Bringing a dish to pass (could be a desert) and your favorite beverage is very much welcomed and appreciated. Your own lawn chairs are welcome. Bring your kids and grandkids. We hope to see you there!
Just to give you a heads up: We are going to go back to Black River Falls for the annual Winter Meet. It has the Best Western Hotel and the conference room that works really well for our needs and will be held on February 1st – 2nd and the board will hold our winter meeting at that time. You will receive a mailing or email with detailed time prior to the meet. Our guest speaker is Lauren McGough and she will have a new book coming out around that time.
Eric Retering will do a short demonstration on rigging a drone with a parachute and bait, and share a summary of how to condition and train longwings for successful game-hawking
Please click below to get direction’s to Mike Barlow’s place.
WFA & Project SOAR 2019
Last year, we ran an article with the WFA’s involvement with Project SOAR and Wisconsin airports to relocate raptors that were a danger to aircraft. The WFA hope to increase the number of participating airports in trapping and relocating birds of prey at those airports. Doing so requires dedicated individuals to be on call for trapping nuisance raptors so that they do not have to be shot in order to keep the airport a safe place for aircraft and their passengers.
The latest article on this can be found here.
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