Auction Trading
Does your group struggle with getting fun and profitable auction items?
One item that usually does well is a river trip. Even better is if one of your board members leads a guided trip on your home river as their contribution to the auction. However, it was suggested recently that many river group members have already paddled their home river a gazillion times and would be more interested in a guided trip on another river in Wisconsin. Mark Sethne, Friends of the Platte River board member and friend of River Alliance, came up with a great solution, auction trading. He is willing to donate a great guided trip on one of his favorite rivers in Southwest Wisconsin to a river group's auction if that group provides a similar trip to the Friends of the Platte River's auction next spring.
If your group is interested in auction trading send Allison Werner an e-mail and she will connect all of the groups that are willing to trade so they can contact each other. You can also contact Mark Sethne, msethne@gmail.com, directly if you would like to trade with Friends of the Platte River.
Speaking of auctions, River Alliance’s auction goes live on Monday! We have items from all corners of the state, including a get-away package to Bayfield, tickets to the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, multiple canoe and kayak trips, and even whitewater rafting—right here in Wisconsin! Go to the auction site and look at the items already posted, sign up for updates of newly posted items, and register to start bidding on September 7.
We featured an article about the Friends of the St. Croix Headwater’s successful Canoes on Wheels (COWS) program on page two of our new issue of Wisconsin Rivers. COWS is all about connecting kids to their local waters to inspire them to be better stewards.
In addition to a fun canoeing experience, they are providing each participant with a kid-sized backpack, pictured on the right, to build an identity for the program and organization. It is a simple, yet useful, take-a-way item that will leave a lasting impression. Even better, the back packs only cost about $3 each.
The EPA recently posted a new website called "Watershed Central" to help watershed organizations and others find key information they need to manage watersheds. Watershed Central helps users find environmental data, watershed models, nearby local organizations, and guidance documents. Watershed Central not only links to EPA Web resources but also links to other valuable funding, guidance and tools on Web sites of state, tribal, and federal partners, universities, and nonprofit organizations.
One of the Watershed Central resources we like is the Nonpoint Source Toolbox. The toolbox has many materials to help with nonpoint education. You can search by state to find existing outreach materials for Wisconsin.
The A-Z section also has examples of TV, Radio and print materials, like the one below, for water related campaigns.
The Rock River Coalition used a few of the pet waste advertisements from the toolbox in their effort to reduce the estimated ONE TON of dog waste flowing into the Rock River every year from just one city in their watershed. Check out their Do Your Doody Fact Sheet for more information.
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