On the last day of the 2025 Wetland Science Conference, Wisconsin Wetlands Association and Trout Unlimited teamed up to facilitate a workshop titled “Resilient Streams, Resilient Infrastructure.”
Addressing the regulatory and capacity barriers that hinder floodplain restoration efforts are a key priority of the WWA’s policy agenda because healthy well-connected floodplains are integral to wetland and river systems.
The 2025 Wetland Science Conference included multiple elements of joint programming designed to encourage participation by fisheries managers and to promote networking and collaboration between wetland and stream restoration practitioners.
The 2025 Wetland Science Conference in La Crosse was our first sell-out ever and the most number of registrants at an in-person conference yet. It was so energizing knowing that this many great people wanted to talk about wetlands.
Dreux Watermolen, one of the attendees at the first Wetland Science Forum, reminisces on 30 years of the conference.